Cognition has renamed its Windsurf development environment as Devin Desktop, marking the latest step in its effort to unify its agent products under the Devin brand. The company said the update builds on Windsurf’s IDE foundation and turns it into a central workspace for managing agents across local and cloud environments.
The new product centers on what Cognition calls an Agent Command Center. Instead of treating the editor and the agent layer as separate tools, Devin Desktop presents a single view for organizing and monitoring agents. Users can track work in a Kanban-style interface and handle sessions from one place. Cognition is also adding a feature called Spaces, designed to group sessions, pull requests, files, and other context so multiple agents can share information more easily.
Devin Desktop is not limited to Cognition’s own agent. At launch, it supports the Agent Client Protocol, or ACP, an open-source standard that lets compatible agents run inside ACP-enabled editors. Cognition said the desktop app can work with agents including Codex, Claude Agent, and OpenCode, as well as custom agents built in-house by customers.
According to the company, these third-party agents appear in the same interface as Devin sessions. They can be managed in the Kanban view, run inside Spaces, and share context with other agents. That means teams can review outside agents using the same workflow they would use for Devin itself.
Cognition said several companies are already involved in the rollout or using the product as a design partner, including Ramp, Harvey, NVIDIA, Modal, and Intact Financial. The endorsements included comments about shared context, multi-agent coordination, and the ability to manage agents from one workspace.
The company is framing Devin Desktop as a full integrated development environment with an agent manager built in, rather than an agent platform that happens to include an editor. Cognition said the app retains familiar features such as extensions, keybindings, language server support, and established development workflows. It also said the desktop environment is backward compatible with Windsurf and VS Code.
That continuity appears intended to make the transition easier for existing users. Cognition said Windsurf users will receive the change as a standard over-the-air update, and their plans, pricing, extensions, and other features will remain the same. New users can download Devin Desktop directly.
Alongside the rebrand, Cognition introduced Devin Local, the successor to Cascade as its main local agent. The company said it rewrote the local agent in Rust and that it retains the same capabilities and settings as Cascade. Cognition added that Devin Local is up to 30 percent more token efficient and includes newer features such as subagents.
For users who need time to migrate, the legacy Cascade agent will remain available through July 1.
Cognition is also positioning Devin as a single system that can operate across multiple surfaces. The company said the same agent and context now extend across Devin Desktop, Devin Cloud, Devin CLI, and Devin Review. In its framing, the desktop app becomes one part of a broader stack that spans local coding, cloud-based autonomy, terminal use, and code review.
The rename signals a deeper consolidation of Cognition’s product lineup. What began as separate Windsurf and Devin offerings is now being presented as a unified platform, with Devin Desktop serving as the primary entry point for engineers who want both a traditional IDE and a multi-agent control layer.