Munich Coding Vibes — Windsurf × Aparavi Workshop Recap

We teamed up with Windsurf at Aparavi’s Munich office on 07/31/2025 for a fast, hands-on night of building production-ready, natural-language apps. Using Windsurf’s agentic IDE and Aparavi’s MCP server, attendees turned raw PDFs, videos, and spreadsheets into working AI apps, then battle-tested them in a friendly code challenge.

Workshop highlights

Aparavi intro — How MCP exposes governed data sources to LLMs for secure, prompt-centric workflows.

Windsurf walkthrough — Flow-state coding with an agentic IDE, CLI setup, and project scaffolding.

Live build — Connect Windsurf CLI to Aparavi’s MCP server, query real data, and ship an app in under an hour.

Code challenge — Small teams built features, pitched lightning-style, and took home prizes.

What attendees learned

How to wire Windsurf + Aparavi MCP for natural-language development on unstructured data.
How to orchestrate data access across PDFs, images, and sheets without copying data.
Practical patterns for chunking, retrieval, and tool calling in agent workflows.
How to move from prototype to repeatable app with CLI, prompts, and connectors.

Windsurf × Aparavi in practice

We demonstrated an end-to-end path: configure MCP, mount governed data, iterate prompts in Windsurf, and deploy a working agent that answers questions, cites sources, and respects data boundaries.

All the photos are available here: https://photos.app.goo.gl/2x6tS2izzazvWdce7