Cognition just pushed an over-the-air update that turned every copy of Windsurf into something fundamentally different. On June 2, Cognition renamed Windsurf to Devin Desktop. That's the headline. But the name is the least interesting part of what changed. The Agent Command Center is now the default surface, not the code editor. If you're a Windsurf user, you opened your editor and found a different product.
One cockpit for your whole agent fleet
The defining change is the Agent Command Center: a Kanban-style dashboard that replaces the traditional editor-first layout as the default view. From here, developers manage every running agent, local and cloud, in one place, with status tracking across all active sessions. Think of it less like an IDE with an AI panel bolted on, and more like a control room where the code editor is one of the screens.
It's a Kanban board of every agent you're running, local and cloud, sorted by status: in progress, blocked, ready for review. You can have one agent refactoring an API, another writing unit tests, and a third prototyping UI, all visible at once.
Cognition built Spaces to enable related agents to share context, so they can collaborate effectively on tasks. A Space groups everything related to a task: agent sessions, the PRs they opened, the files they touched, reference context you want persistent across agents. If you're working on a feature that involves three separate agent sessions over two days, a Space keeps that context available without re-pasting it each time.
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