Windsurf Cascade / Devin Desktop (Devin Local) · Cognition AI (formerly Codeium)

confidence: mediumactive

The Windsurf AI IDE's Cascade agent, post-Cognition-acquisition, was rebranded to Devin Desktop (June 2, 2026) with Cascade deprecated (available through July 1, 2026) in favor of the Rust-rewritten 'Devin Local' agent (30% more token-efficient, subagents), pairing local agentic editing (Fast Context codebase awareness, MCP, Memories, Workflows) with Devin cloud sessions for background work.

Identity

Homepage	https://windsurf.com/cascade
License	proprietary
Domain	coding
Form factor	ide · desktop-app · cloud-service

Model support

Model-agnostic	✓ yes
Native models	SWE-1.5 · SWE-1 · Claude (Anthropic) · GPT (OpenAI) · Gemini (Google)
Local models	? unknown
Pricing	freemium

Extensibility

MCP client	✓ yes
Agent Skills support	? unknown
Plugins / hooks	✓ yes

Execution & safety

Sandboxing	optional
Autonomy spectrum	supervised → semi-autonomous → background-cloud
Subagents	✓ yes
Parallel sessions	✓ yes
Context management	codebase-indexing · persistent-memory

Integration & evidence

Headless / API	? unknown
GitHub integration	✓ yes
Sources	https://windsurf.com/cascade https://docs.windsurf.com/windsurf/cascade/cascade https://chatforest.com/builders-log/windsurf-devin-desktop-rebrand-devin-local-acp-builder-guide/ https://www.nocode.mba/articles/windsurf-pricing https://www.digitalapplied.com/blog/windsurf-2-deep-dive-cascade-agents-flows-2026

✓ profile last verified 2026-07-08 · benchmark figures are vendor-reported unless a source states otherwise