Windsurf Becomes Devin Desktop With New Agent Command Center
Cognition has relaunched Windsurf as Devin Desktop, a full IDE with an Agent Command Center and open ACP protocol support that lets Codex, Claude Agent, OpenCode, and custom in-house agents run side by side in a shared Kanban workspace.
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Windsurf Is Now Devin Desktop
Cognition has relaunched Windsurf as Devin Desktop, merging its two developer products into a single IDE that puts an agent management layer at the center of the coding experience.
The update arrived June 2 as an over-the-air update for existing Windsurf users. Plans, pricing, extensions, and keybindings carry over automatically — Devin Desktop is a product evolution, not a replacement install.
The Agent Command Center
The defining change in Devin Desktop is the Agent Command Center: a Kanban-style dashboard that replaces the traditional editor-first layout as the default view. From here, developers manage every running agent — local and cloud — in one place, with status tracking across all active sessions.
Alongside this, Cognition is introducing Spaces, a new context-sharing layer that lets agents working on the same project share sessions, pull requests, files, and context bundles. The goal is to eliminate the re-setup overhead that currently makes multi-agent workflows tedious.
Not Just for Devin: The ACP Protocol
Devin Desktop launches with support for the Agent Client Protocol (ACP), an open-source protocol Cognition is pitching as a standard for agent interoperability. Any ACP-compatible agent can run inside Devin Desktop at launch — including Codex, Claude Agent, and OpenCode, as well as custom in-house agents teams build themselves.
Third-party agents get the same Kanban interface as Devin: they appear in the board, run inside Spaces, and share context with other agents. The practical effect is that Devin Desktop positions itself as an agent orchestration layer, not just a single-agent IDE.
Launch partners include NVIDIA, Ramp, Harvey, and Modal. NVIDIA is joining a research preview for multi-agent support, with its engineering teams running multiple agents across complex workflows daily.
Devin Local Replaces Cascade
Cognition has shipped Devin Local, the successor to Cascade as the primary local coding agent. The rewrite is notable: Devin Local is built from scratch in Rust, supports modern subagent capabilities, and is up to 30% more token efficient than Cascade.
For developers with existing Cascade sessions and custom configurations, the legacy agent remains available through July 1, after which Devin Local becomes the default.
What Stays the Same
Devin Desktop remains a fully VS Code-compatible IDE. All existing extensions, keybindings, and language server integrations carry over. Pricing and subscription tiers are unchanged. Existing Windsurf Pro and Max subscribers don't need to take any action; the update arrives automatically.
The shift is in what's surfaced by default — the Agent Command Center takes the top-level position that was previously occupied by the editor pane itself. For developers who prefer a traditional editor-first layout, the full IDE is still there underneath.
What's Next
Cognition's stated direction is a single Devin that runs consistently across desktop, cloud, CLI, and code review, regardless of where the task originates. Devin Cloud — the autonomous, cloud-hosted agent that runs tasks on its own VM — remains a separate surface but shares the same agent identity as Devin Local.
Whether the ACP protocol achieves the cross-agent interoperability it's targeting depends on adoption from other agent runtimes. At launch, having Codex and Claude Agent as day-one supported agents is a meaningful signal that Cognition is serious about the open standard, rather than using it as a lock-in mechanism.
