Windsurf rebranded as Devin Desktop; Cascade agent reaches end of life 2026-07-01

Category: Agentic coding
Status: confirmed
Sources: Devin blog, Agent Client Protocol spec
Summary: Cognition pushed an over-the-air update on 2026-06-02 renaming Windsurf to Devin Desktop. The default surface shifts from an editor canvas to the Agent Command Center, repositioning the product as an agent management hub with an embedded IDE. The local agent Cascade is end-of-life on 2026-07-01 and is replaced by Devin Local, rewritten in Rust. Devin Desktop ships with native support for the Agent Client Protocol (ACP), an open-source (Apache 2.0) JSON-RPC 2.0 spec over stdin/stdout originally created by Zed Industries in August 2025. ACP defines how code editors connect to coding agents; Codex, Claude Agent, Gemini CLI, OpenCode, and Junie all run as first-class agents inside Devin Desktop via ACP. As of June 2026, ACP has native implementations in Zed and JetBrains IDEs and more than 25 AI agent integrations.
Why it matters: Any CI pipeline or workflow rule that invokes Cascade must be repointed to Devin Local before 2026-07-01; ACP is emerging as the standard interface between editors and coding agents, with broad industry adoption across Zed, JetBrains, GitHub, Google, and Cognition.