On June 2, 2026, Cognition shipped Devin Desktop as a standard over-the-air update to Windsurf users. Plans, extensions, keybindings, and MCP connections carried over—no reinstall, no migration wizard. The product pivot is real anyway: the default launch surface is no longer the editor canvas but an Agent Command Center Kanban for managing local and cloud agents from one place. The full IDE remains available behind it.
Cascade Is End-of-Life July 1
The deadline that matters: Cascade, Windsurf's local agent, reaches end-of-life on July 1, 2026. Cognition's documentation states Cascade "remains available through July 1st." Any CI pipeline, automation script, or workflow rule that explicitly invokes Cascade must be repointed to Devin Local before that date.
Search your repos for Cascade references this week—not next month. The OTA rebrand already moved daily users to Devin Desktop; headless automation is the piece that will break silently on July 1.
Devin Local Replaces Cascade
Devin Local is Cascade's successor, rewritten from scratch in Rust. Cognition reports it is up to 30% more token-efficient and supports sub-agents—one local session can spawn helpers for parallel subtasks. Capabilities and settings port forward; the runtime is new.
One Agent Across Four Surfaces
Cognition is consolidating the Devin product line under one agent identity:
- Devin Desktop — agent manager with a full VS Code-compatible IDE inside
- Devin Cloud — long-running autonomous agent on its own cloud machine
- Devin CLI — terminal interface to the same agent intelligence
- Devin Review — code review on every diff
New in Desktop: Spaces, a way to share context between agents while grouping sessions, PRs, files, and project state. Devin Desktop also ships with support for the Agent Client Protocol (ACP)—an open protocol letting any compatible agent run inside any ACP-compatible editor. At launch, Codex, Claude Agent, OpenCode, and in-house agents built on ACP are supported alongside Devin Local.
Product Positioning
The reframe is explicit: Devin Desktop is an agent management hub that contains a full IDE, not an IDE that happens to call an agent. That matches the direction Cursor 3 and agent-orchestration tools like GitKraken Kepler are pushing—developer attention shifts from typing to orchestrating.
For existing Windsurf subscribers, pricing and plan tiers stay the same under the new name. Download is also available at devin.ai for new users who never installed Windsurf.
Action Checklist
- Restart the editor if you have not since June 2—you may already be on Devin Desktop.
- Grep CI and scripts for
Cascadeinvocations; migrate to Devin Local before July 1. - Explore the Agent Command Center default: if you live in the editor, the classic canvas is still one click away.
- If you run third-party agents, test ACP compatibility rather than assuming Cascade-specific hooks still work.