AI Judge changed title after evaluation, original title: "Cognition AI co-founder Walden Yan launches Devin Desktop, a unified app to manage local and cloud-based AI agents"
The application supports third-party agents like Claude Code.
Josh Wolfe#710Devin Desktop is built on Windsurf, with all the features you know and love.
Introducing Devin Desktop: the next generation of Windsurf
Manage fleets of local and cloud agents from one surface
Support for any ACP-compatible agent
With a full IDE for when you need to jump into the code
Positive users praised Cognition's Devin Desktop as a killer feature for managing AI coding agents and called it insanely cool, while negative users called it slop that risks replacing IDEs and suffers from repeated tool-calling errors.
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Introducing Devin Desktop.
Manage fleets of local and cloud agents from one surface. Plan, delegate, review, and ship without leaving your editor.
Standalone IDEs have about 6 months left to live. An interface for manually editing and refactoring doesn’t need to exist if you're not manually editing and refactoring anymore.
So what's the right interface for a dev to be working in for 8h / day? Some parts are obvious: you want to be able to spin up agents (either local or cloud agents) and to have a clean interface to keep up with all of your parallel running agents. Then you want to be able to get into the weeds whenever needed for last-mile fixes and review.
But as software engineering continues to evolve we will see more and more of the lifecycle get reinvented. How do you build a single surface that allows you to plan, spec, prototype, debug, review, QA?
Bringing Devin and Windsurf together has been our vision ever since the acquisition. Devin Desktop is our first shot at what this looks like. Excited to make this a reality today!
Introducing Devin Desktop: the next generation of Windsurf
Manage fleets of local and cloud agents from one surface
Support for any ACP-compatible agent
With a full IDE for when you need to jump into the code
my prediction:
Introducing Devin Desktop.
Manage fleets of local and cloud agents from one surface. Plan, delegate, review, and ship without leaving your editor.
Devin Desktop is our first product launch that’s fully agent-neutral. You can run your own custom background agents directly from the desktop app, Devin, or even Claude Code / Codex. Part of Cognition being the Independent Agent Lab is working well with all of the agents - excited to do more in this direction.
Introducing Devin Desktop.
Manage fleets of local and cloud agents from one surface. Plan, delegate, review, and ship without leaving your editor.
Watching @Mokshit06 work on the Devin Desktop landing page blew my mind
He's a true product craftsman at heart
This is the highest-taste landing page we’ve shipped yet, and it’s all thanks to him
Every element is an interactive demo. See if you can spot the easter eggs 👀
Introducing Devin Desktop: the next generation of Windsurf
Manage fleets of local and cloud agents from one surface
Support for any ACP-compatible agent
With a full IDE for when you need to jump into the code
Ignore at your peril.
Standalone IDEs have about 6 months left to live. An interface for manually editing and refactoring doesn’t need to exist if you're not manually editing and refactoring anymore.
So what's the right interface for a dev to be working in for 8h / day? Some parts are obvious: you want to be able to spin up agents (either local or cloud agents) and to have a clean interface to keep up with all of your parallel running agents. Then you want to be able to get into the weeds whenever needed for last-mile fixes and review.
But as software engineering continues to evolve we will see more and more of the lifecycle get reinvented. How do you build a single surface that allows you to plan, spec, prototype, debug, review, QA?
Bringing Devin and Windsurf together has been our vision ever since the acquisition. Devin Desktop is our first shot at what this looks like. Excited to make this a reality today!
If you use conductor, codex, claude, devin, etc you can now use them all from one place AND get builtin devin review + IDE
Windsurf has evolved into Devin Desktop
Introducing Devin Desktop.
Manage fleets of local and cloud agents from one surface. Plan, delegate, review, and ship without leaving your editor.
Cognition is the Switzerland of AI software - we're independent of the big labs, which allows us to take bold bets like inviting Codex and Claude Code right into our desktop app
Introducing Devin Desktop.
Manage fleets of local and cloud agents from one surface. Plan, delegate, review, and ship without leaving your editor.
every developer I know uses both Claude Code and Codex, switching between them when either quota runs out
Devin Desktop is the easiest way to do this
Introducing Devin Desktop.
Manage fleets of local and cloud agents from one surface. Plan, delegate, review, and ship without leaving your editor.
Devin Desktop runs across your entire stack, with all the integrations, capabilities, and intelligence as Devin in the cloud. Plan locally and hand off to the cloud - Devin will continue to work after you close your laptop.
Devin Desktop supports the Agent Client Protocol (ACP): bring your own agents to work alongside Devin, all in one unified view.
On my first day, I learned that this was the most important product launch on our roadmap
Bringing Windsurf and Devin together has always been the vision - now we have the superapp home base for all software development. Give it a try! I think you'll like it
Introducing Devin Desktop: the next generation of Windsurf
Manage fleets of local and cloud agents from one surface
Support for any ACP-compatible agent
With a full IDE for when you need to jump into the code
This team...SHIPS. Amazing 📈 from Lux family co @cognition
Introducing Devin Desktop.
Manage fleets of local and cloud agents from one surface. Plan, delegate, review, and ship without leaving your editor.
Devin Desktop supports the Agent Client Protocol (ACP): bring your own agents to work alongside Devin, all in one unified view.
Download Devin Desktop for free and try it today:
http://devin.ai/download
Another big launch from @cognition - Devin Desktop- the best place for developers to manage the best agent for the job, bringing together Windsurf & Devin under one roof 💫
Introducing Devin Desktop.
Manage fleets of local and cloud agents from one surface. Plan, delegate, review, and ship without leaving your editor.
this is the teams vs slack graph btw
@cognition Cool
@cognition Incredible voiceover @theodormarcu
@cognition Claude Code. Warp. Cursor. Devin Desktop.
every serious dev tool is becoming an agent orchestration layer. the IDE was just the beginning.
my terminal is having an identity crisis just watching this.
@skeptrune 👀
