Cognition

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Devin Desktop is Cognition's new desktop app for engineers who run more than one coding agent at a time. Built on the IDE foundation of Windsurf, it puts an Agent Command Center at the heart of the editor, where local agents, cloud agents, pull requests, and project context sit side by side in a single Kanban view. The launch matters now because Cognition argues that the best engineers it works with are no longer pair programming with one agent at a time, but using agents to scope and plan work, delegating tasks to cloud agents, reviewing progress, and deciding what makes it to production. The app introduces Spaces, a way for related agents to share context so they can collaborate on tasks , grouping sessions, files, and PRs around a single piece of work. It also ships with support for the Agent Client Protocol, so at launch Codex, Claude Agent, OpenCode, and any other ACP-compatible agents, including agents built by your team in-house, can run inside Devin Desktop alongside Devin . Underneath, the agent manager is built into a full IDE that remains fully backwards-compatible with Windsurf , preserving editor extensions, keybindings, LSPs, and terminal workflows for the moments when an engineer needs to jump in and finish the last-mile edit by hand. Cognition was founded in August 2023 by Scott Wu, Steven Hao, and Walden Yan, all competitive programmers who won gold medals at the International Olympiad in Informatics , and is the maker of Devin, which the company positions as the first autonomous AI software engineer. Devin Desktop folds Cognition's earlier Windsurf line into its broader agent platform and points the company in a more agent-neutral direction, with NVIDIA, Modal, Ramp, Harvey, and Intact Financial cited as early users and design partners.

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