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Devin Desktop: From Windsurf to a System of Agents

80 chapters · GrafSoul

1How the Former Windsurf Became Devin Desktop
2Six Surfaces You Must Not Mix
3Choosing a Surface by the Task
4How to Use This Book
5Installing on macOS, Windows and Linux
6Onboarding, Sign-in and Importing Settings
7Extensions, Windsurf Plugins and Agent Plugins
8Git as a Safety Net
9Stable and Devin Desktop Next
10The First Safe Cycle in 15 Minutes
Tab: Continuing the Code and the Next Step

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12Command: A Pointed Change with Cmd/Ctrl+I

13Code Lenses: Explain, Refactor, Document

14Terminal: Command, Context and Risk

15Browser Preview: Verify the Interface, Don't Imagine It

16AI Commit Messages Without Autopilot

17DeepWiki: Understanding a Symbol in Context

18Codemaps: A Map of Execution and Relationships

19Vibe and Replace: Mass Replacement with Local Judgment

20Models and Adaptive: Choosing by Uncertainty

21Context Awareness and the Repository Index

22.devinignore: Reduce Noise, Do Not Fake a Safe

23Five Fields of a Strong Task

24Context: Hand Over a Map, Not a Warehouse

25Ask, Plan and Normal by the Level of Uncertainty

26The Proof Cycle: inspect → patch → verify → review

27Debug: From Reproduction to Cause

28Refactoring: Preserve Behavior Measurably

29A UI Task: a Visual Contract and a Responsive Check

30Cost: Manage Iterations, Not Guess Tokens

31How to Enable and Recognize Devin Local

32Agent Mode and Permission Mode Are Different Axes

33Permission Rules: deny → ask → allow

34Read, Write, Exec, Fetch and MCP

35Approval Card: Read, Edit, Restrict

36Sandbox: A System Boundary, Not an Instruction

37Worktree Sessions: Isolating a Parallel Diff

38Subagents: Foreground and Background

39A Custom Subagent with a Narrow Role

40Quick Review: A Separate Look at the Diff

41Revert, Duplicate and Share Conversation

42Restricted Mode: When Agents Must Not Run

43AGENTS.md: A Short Durable Contract

44Rules: always-on, manual, model and glob

45Skills: Knowledge on Demand

46A Ready Skill for Pre-Commit Review

47Config Scopes and Precedence

48MCP: A Separate Config and Minimal Grants

49Hooks: Verifiable Policy Around Tool Calls

50Agent Plugins: A Bundle of Capabilities and Trust

51A Customizations Audit Before the First Command

52The Agent Command Center as a Queue of Decisions

53Spaces: The Shared Context of a Task

54Devin Cloud: A Separate VM and a Long Horizon

55Local → Cloud Handoff

56ACP: A Shared Protocol, Not a Shared Policy

57The Local ACP Registry

58A Custom ACP Agent: The Minimal Contract

59Multi-Agent Topology Without Chaos

60Notifications, the Queue and Human Attention

61When to Stop Parallelism

62Why Cascade Still Shows Up

63Code and Chat Modes, Tools and Checkpoints

64Memories and Rules: What to Migrate

65Workflows → Skills

66Cascade MCP and Web Search

67Auto-execution Levels: Legacy Switches

68Cascade Worktrees and Arena

69App Deploys: Preview, Not Production

70The Migration Wizard and the Transition Matrix

71The Threat Model of an Agentic IDE

72Privacy, Training and Data Boundaries

73Secrets: Never in the Prompt or Tracked Config

74Teams and Enterprise: Policy Above Personal Setting

75Remote SSH, Dev Containers and WSL

76Plans, Quota and a Dated Pricing Snapshot

77Troubleshooting: Diagnose Layer by Layer

78A Developer's Daily Cycle with Devin

79Checklists Before a Merge and Before an Autonomous Session

80Quick Reference and the Version Boundaries

Chapter 82

Sources

Links

Devin Docsdocs.devin.ai
Devin Desktopdocs.devin.ai
Windsurf Docsdocs.windsurf.com
Cognitioncognition.ai
Agent Client Protocol (ACP)agentclientprotocol.com
Model Context Protocolmodelcontextprotocol.io

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