Cognition is folding the Windsurf IDE into its Devin product line, launching Devin Desktop as the new front end for running and coordinating coding agents. The pitch is straightforward: keep the editor people already know, but turn it into a control panel for fleets of agents, whether they come from Cognition, OpenAI, Anthropic, or your own team.

This is the first major product consolidation since Cognition acquired Windsurf last July, a deal that closed days after Google hired away Windsurf's CEO Varun Mohan, co-founder Douglas Chen, and research leaders in a $2.4 billion reverse-acquihire that left much of the startup's 250-person team behind. Cognition then closed a $400 million funding round at a valuation of $10.2 billion, and Devin Desktop is the first product that meaningfully stitches the two companies' assets together.

The Agent Command Center

The headline feature is a Kanban-style view called the Agent Command Center, where every running agent, local or cloud, shows up as a card you can dispatch, monitor, and review. Cognition is also adding Spaces, a way to group sessions, pull requests, files, and shared context so multiple agents can work on the same problem without each starting from a blank slate.