Governance guide

How to govern Inventory in Windsurf

A step-by-step guide to governing Inventory in Windsurf with Rencore: detect, review by owner and severity, and remediate with an audit trail.

Definition

Governing Inventory in Windsurf means finding where it goes wrong, reviewing the findings by owner and severity, and remediating with an audit trail. Rencore covers this concern for Windsurf with the pre-built controls below, so it becomes a repeatable check rather than a one-off cleanup. The steps that follow apply the same detect, review, remediate loop to Inventory.

Steps

  1. Inventory Windsurf

    Connect Windsurf and let Rencore build a continuous inventory of its resources, owners, and configuration, so governance starts from what exists rather than a stale export.

  2. Detect with policies

    Turn on the pre-built policies that cover Inventory in Windsurf to surface oversharing, sprawl, and misconfiguration on the first scan, before writing a single custom rule.

  3. Review by owner and severity

    Use the Windsurf reports to review findings by owner, category, and severity, and to share them with stakeholders who do not have a seat in the platform.

  4. Remediate and automate

    Apply automations to fix findings at scale, route sensitive changes through approvals, and keep every action reversible and logged for the audit trail.

Windsurf controls for Inventory

Grounded in the Rencore catalog. See the full Windsurf catalog on the Windsurf connector page.

  • Windsurf Team

    A Windsurf team (workspace); top-level container for members, seats, usage, cascade runs, chat sessions, and models.

  • Windsurf Member

    Individual accounts with access to a Windsurf team.

  • Windsurf Seat

    A Windsurf seat assignment on the team license.

  • Windsurf Daily Usage

    Daily usage rollup per member; completions, chat, cascade runs, credits, top model.

  • Windsurf Cascade Run

    A single Cascade (agentic run) invocation; model, duration, tool calls, credits.

  • Windsurf Chat Session

    An inline chat conversation; message count, primary model, credits.

  • Windsurf Model Usage

    Rolling 30-day model-usage fingerprint per team (requests, users, credits, BYOK flag).

  • Windsurf Audit Event

    A Windsurf admin audit event; actor, target, and type.

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