Devin capabilities

Devin Desktop supports the Agent Client Protocol, an open standard for editor-to-agent communication (analogous to LSP for language servers), allowing any ACP-compatible third-party coding agent to run inside the Agent Command Center alongside Devin. Documented compatible agents include OpenAI's Codex CLI, Anthropic's Claude Agent, OpenCode, JetBrains' Junie, and Google's Gemini CLI.

Agent Command Center is a dedicated surface inside Devin Desktop (formerly Windsurf) for managing every agent a user has running, local (Cascade) or cloud (Devin), from one place. Sessions are organized into Kanban-style columns by status so engineers can see what is in flight, what needs attention, and what is finished, then scope work, delegate to cloud agents, review progress, and decide what ships.

Devin accepts a natural-language task description and works independently — planning, coding, running tests, browsing documentation, and iterating — until the task is complete or it needs human input. Sessions are observable in real time and interruptible at any point.

Devin CLI is a local coding agent that runs in your terminal, with access to your local files and environment. It can hand off tasks to cloud Devin via a "/handoff" command, enabling a seamless local-to-cloud workflow.

Every Devin session runs inside an ephemeral, fully isolated cloud VM that includes a shell/terminal, a code editor (IDE), and a browser. All three surfaces are observable in real time; users can take over any of them at any moment.

Devin automatically indexes connected repositories and generates a wiki with architecture diagrams, source links, and codebase summaries (DeepWiki). Ask Devin provides natural-language Q&A over the indexed codebase with code citations, and can generate context-rich prompts to seed agent sessions.

A REST API lets teams create and manage Devin sessions, knowledge bases, playbooks, and secrets programmatically, and integrate Devin into custom tooling or CI pipelines.

Devin Review is an in-webapp code-review platform that re-organises PR diffs logically, detects bugs by severity, and provides codebase-aware chat so reviewers can ask questions about changes without leaving the review interface.

Devin offers SAML/OIDC SSO, role-based access control, per-repo and per-tool scoping, a network egress allowlist, SIEM-exportable session transcripts, and an optional single-tenant VPC deployment for organisations with compliance requirements.

Devin connects to Jira and Linear so that assigning a ticket (or adding a label or @-mentioning Devin in a comment) automatically starts a coding session, which then posts PR links and progress back to the ticket.

Knowledge is a persistent, org-wide library of tips, documentation, and instructions that Devin automatically recalls when contextually relevant. Playbooks are reusable prompt templates for repeated tasks, functioning like custom system prompts scoped to specific workflows.

Devin connects to external services via the Model Context Protocol, giving it access to databases, monitoring tools, productivity apps, and more during sessions. A built-in marketplace launched with 40+ pre-configured servers and has since expanded substantially (48+ new engineering connectors added and 42 beta MCPs graduated to GA on 2026-06-19); users can also add arbitrary custom servers.

Multiple Devin instances can run simultaneously on separate, isolated VMs. A parent session can also orchestrate child sessions, delegating sub-tasks to a coordinated team of Devins and collecting their outputs.

Devin uses a usage-based billing model. Self-serve plans combine an included usage quota with on-demand credits for overage; Enterprise is billed in Agent Compute Units (ACUs) at a rate set in the customer's order form. Cognition's current public docs no longer publish a minutes-per-ACU conversion (the ~15-minutes-of-active-work figure is historical). Plans range from a free tier to an enterprise custom tier.

Devin operates as a Slack bot; team members tag @Devin in any channel or thread to start sessions, ask codebase questions, or run data queries — all without leaving Slack.

Spaces group all of the agent sessions (local Cascade and cloud Devin), pull requests, relevant files, and project-level context for a single task or project into one view inside the Agent Command Center. New sessions created inside a Space automatically inherit the Space's existing context, so agents can start work without re-explaining the project, and returning to a Space restores the exact prior view.