Windsurf

Overview

Windsurf is an AI-native IDE and agent orchestration platform, as featured in Cognition's Devin Desktop. It serves as a centralized Agent Command Center for developers to manage fleets of local and cloud coding agents, enabling a complete workflow of planning, delegation, review, and shipping without leaving the editor. The desktop application includes a world-class IDE with syntax highlighting, autocomplete, and debugging tools, allowing engineers to read, trace, and debug every change made by their agents directly in context. With a sessions board and launchpad, users can monitor agent activity, filter tasks by status, and keep track of ongoing work items.

At its core, Windsurf is built on the Agent Client Protocol (ACP), which ensures interoperability across all models and agents, giving teams the freedom to choose their preferred AI backends while maintaining a unified workspace. Its Spaces feature facilitates shared context and Git worktrees across all agents, while Fast Context rapidly identifies the exact files and lines an agent requires, often in milliseconds. The Supercomplete engine predicts not just the next edit but the next thought, accelerating iteration cycles through a tab-tab-ship workflow. For quality assurance, the platform provides rapid or in-depth diff review capabilities before pushing any change. Additionally, users have unlimited access to free world-class models, including SWE-1.7, described as the fastest coding model available.

Windsurf is designed for deep customization and extensibility. It supports an ever-growing ecosystem of MCP servers, IDE extensions, and language servers, including integrations with Slack, Notion, Linear, Stripe, Sentry, Datadog, and Atlassian, as well as language-specific tooling such as Pyright, rust-analyzer, clangd, and gopls. This enables organizations to adapt the platform to their existing toolchains and workflows, ensuring a seamless transition into agent-driven development. Teams can also create custom background agents that carry organizational context, extending the reach of AI assistance across the entire engineering org.

For engineering teams that rely on multiple agents, Windsurf provides a shared workspace where humans and agents operate from the same contextual understanding. It supports custom background agents for long-running engineering efforts and offers effortless handoff to cloud agents, allowing engineers to close their laptops while work continues. With enterprise-grade deployments and customers like Ramp, Harvey, NVIDIA, Modal, and Intact Financial, Windsurf positions itself as the definitive home for every agent you run.

Core capabilities

Agent Command Center

Manage fleets of local and cloud agents from one surface, with full control over planning, delegation, review, and shipping.

World-Class IDE

Includes syntax highlighting, autocomplete, and debugging tools to read, trace, and debug every agent change.

Agent Client Protocol (ACP) Support

Works across all models and agents, enabling interoperability and freedom of choice.

Spaces

Share context and Git worktrees across all agents in a unified workspace.

Supercomplete

Predicts your next thought and accelerates code production through tab-tab-ship workflows.

Fast Context

Finds exact files and lines agents need in milliseconds for instant codebase awareness.

Comprehensive Diff Review

Rapidly or deeply review every agent diff before pushing to ensure code quality.

Cloud Handoff & Free Models

Provides unlimited access to SWE-1.7 and allows effortless handoff to cloud agents.

Use cases

Coordinating multiple coding agents (local and cloud) in a single workspace

Planning, delegating, and reviewing agent tasks without leaving the editor

Debugging and tracing agent-generated code with full IDE tools

Sharing context and Git worktrees across agents for collaborative development

Running long-lived background agents for complex engineering efforts

Integrating AI agents into existing toolchains via MCP servers