Devin Desktop Updates & Release Notes

Devin Desktop

The Agent Command Center now follows whichever space is selected instead of being tied to one folder, converts an editor window in place (no reload, no save prompt), and any number of agent windows can run side by side.

A new Agent Command Center location setting (devin.agentWindow.location) can be used to split the agent command center into a separate window from the editor.

Remote agent hosts: connect to agents over SSH from the location selector, with saved hosts, status dots, and a server icon in the sidebar. SSH sessions recover the exact transcript after a reconnect.

Local sessions can now be deleted from the agent sidebar.

Faster startup, bounded memory for background transcripts and streamed file writes, and cheaper loading spinners.

When switching between sessions in the Agent Command Center, the file explorer now updates to match the working directory of the active session.

ACP is always enabled — the Enable ACP toggle is gone.

MCP authorization opens the provider directly, and Docker-based MCP servers from the registry launch correctly.

Agent activation failures report the agent’s last stderr line and open that agent’s output channel.

Some legacy Cascade entry points are removed: new-agent option, annotations, conversation mentions, settings group, automatic Lifeguard checks, Vibe & Replace, Deploy, and workflow commands.

Files Devin edits in Desktop count toward lines-of-code analytics.

Devin Cloud

Network access requests now match the web app: an “Allowlist N domains” card that names the policy blocking the destinations and lets permitted users update the governing security profile or automation.

Archiving a cloud session with open pull requests offers to close them, and archives its child sessions.

Improved cloud session formatting with an image preview carousel, hook run visibility, and rich queued messages.

A message sent during a Devin Cloud outage is held and delivered when the connection returns.

Devin Desktop

Note

Cascade has been removed.

Devin Local is now the only agent available in Devin Desktop. Use the Continue in Devin Local prompt to migrate existing conversations to the new agent.

The agent location picker now shows Local, Worktree, and Cloud as top-level options, with existing worktrees in a searchable nested submenu.

Agent sidebar: sessions updated in the last 30 days are shown by default.

The agent inbox list view now has per-row checkboxes for batch archive/unarchive, and the title-bar back/forward arrows navigate between the inbox and opened sessions.

Trigger menus (/ , @ , ! ) no longer open when followed by whitespace, and stay closed after you click into the conversation.

Cmd/Ctrl+F opens find-in-page in Devin Review and embedded Devin web surfaces. Devin Review tabs show the PR title, open GitHub links at their diff anchor, and the sessions sidebar swaps to a PR files/review sidebar (or the wiki page tree) while a fullscreen review or wiki is open.

PR cards gained Open Devin Review, Open in Desktop tab, Close PR, and Git settings actions, and Checkout branch now finds local clones (including worktrees) and lets you pick one when several match.

Fixed attaching to dev containers whose remote user is a uid:gid, Remote-WSL activation on a fresh install, and MCP registry fetches behind corporate proxies.

Clipboard images can be pasted into the New Session page.

Problems panel actions now send problems to Devin Local when Cascade is disabled.

Config changes reach sessions in the order they are selected, so a rapid sequence no longer lets an older update overwrite a newer one.

Devin Desktop

The Agent Command Center now follows whichever space is selected instead of being tied to one folder, converts an editor window in place (no reload, no save prompt), and any number of agent windows can run side by side.

A new Agent Command Center location setting (devin.agentWindow.location) can be used to split the agent command center into a separate window from the editor.

Significantly improved performance for switching between Agent and Editor mode (Ctrl/Cmd+G).

Improved update process on Windows to only install after explicitly clicking Restart to Update.

Windows: Install Devin CLI now writes a shim to the bundled CLI, so updating Devin Desktop updates the devin command too.

Linux: uninstalling or upgrading the .deb no longer removes the shared Microsoft apt keyring, so other repositories signed by it keep working.

The agent sidebar, composer, and welcome page now warn when a workspace is untrusted and offer a trust workspace prompt to activate local agents.

Fixed a rare bug where the window could scroll up after a mode switch.

Improved recovery for corrupted file:// working directories.

Added the ability to rename sessions from the tab dropdown.

Enterprise: Added a link to request more usage when hitting ACU limits.

Devin Local

Added support for working on multi-root workspaces containing virtual filesystem folders.

Improved plan mode with a full Markdown plan file that can be separately reviewed, with an explicit Implement button.

Running subagents can be stopped individually without cancelling the turn.

Explain and Fix Problem sends problems to Devin Local when Cascade is disabled.

Devin Local tabs show the same status indicators as Cascade legacy tabs and the Current Workspace view keeps other projects’ conversations out of the list.

post_setup_worktree hooks now run for worktrees created from a Devin Local session, so .env files and other untracked setup are copied in before the session starts.

New settings control whether integrated terminal activity and local user-edit activity are shared with ACP agents (both remain on by default).

mcp_config.json no longer shows spurious “Property is not allowed” warnings.

Up/down arrows in the chat input once again navigate through previous prompts.

Fixed the migration wizard to work in remote SSH workspaces.

Devin Cloud

The sessions sidebar now has improved filtering and sorting controls.

Live shell output streams into the session while a command runs, and finished shell rows expand to their full command and complete output.

Terminal cards follow the newest output instead of the oldest, transcript timestamps appear on hover, and a failed send restores your draft to the input instead of losing it.

Session tabs and the command palette offer Copy Session URL.

Saving a session’s network config now reports a conflicting change instead of silently discarding it, and approving a network access request says why it failed.

Devin Desktop

“Restart to Update” now asks for confirmation when local agents are still working and says how many will be stopped; cloud sessions keep running.

Settings and Keyboard Shortcuts open as regular editor tabs by default; set "workbench.editor.useModal": "all" to keep the modal overlay.

Fixed a bug with accidentally triggering editor keybindings from the agent chat.

The old “Plugins” section for IDE extension marketplaces has been renamed to “Extensions”.

Hide Cascade-specific configuration and customization options when Cascade is disabled for your team.

Visual polish for the Agent Command Center: left-aligned titlebar, unsaved-changes indicator on file tabs, no more Cmd+P open/close flicker, aligned PR icons in Quick Open, full-width sidebar title renaming, and dragged session tabs that pick up their session name.

Starting an agent in a new worktree that fails now surfaces the git error instead of quietly running in your workspace.

Terminal: Create New Terminal in Editor Area now works inside worktrees.

Codemaps and MCP configuration files now open from the remote machine when connected over WSL, SSH, or a dev container.

Teams plan members no longer see quota warning banners they cannot act on.

Devin Local

Devin Local conversations can be shared: Share Conversation uploads a sanitized transcript (system prompts and tool definitions dropped, secrets redacted, paths normalized) and copies a team-visible link. Share directly from the actions menu below a completed turn.

Reverting is reliable mid-turn: revert buttons appear as soon as a prompt is sent and reverting while the agent is working cancels the turn first.

The Customizations panel has search across every section (skills, subagents, rules, hooks, plugins, MCP servers), a new Subagents section, a refresh action for plugins, and an info indicator explaining why an enterprise-required plugin can’t be removed.

Plugins installed from Customizations are added to your personal plugins by default, so they are available in Devin Cloud and on your other devices; choose Install locally for a device-only install.

Permission rules from different levels (enterprise, mode, user, project, subagent) now compose predictably — an explicit deny: always wins, “always allow” options only appear when the grant would actually take effect, and denials say which layer denied them.

Fixed rendering of commands whose output contains non-UTF-8 bytes.

Ensured sudo password prompts can’t hang a command.

Separate each MCP server’s logs into its own MCP: output channel.

Large-file reads through ACP are bounded and paginated instead of repeatedly rereading overflow files. Late terminal flushes now preserve complete output and cannot reopen completed command cards.

Devin Cloud

Session size chips use the same enterprise ACU thresholds as the web app, and auto-continuation billing notices appear inline in the transcript.

Queued messages can be edited: click the edit button or press ⬆ in an empty input to pull the last queued message back.

The +X −Y diff summary on a collapsed agent group is now clickable and opens a multi-diff editor with just that group’s files.

“Duplicate session” and “send as fork” open the fork in a new tab, keeping the original conversation open.

“Grant access” on a network access request is disabled with an explanation when an admin owns the session’s network policy.

Devin Desktop

Added a unified notifications setting that posts native OS notifications when any agent session finishes or needs your input.

Codemaps now open in their own editor tabs in agent window mode (home, generation, and individual codemaps), and codemap @-mentions now work in Devin Local. The Codemaps icon is also back in the activity bar in Agent Command Center mode.

Select text inside a message transcript and add it to the chat input with the “Add to chat” button or ⌘L / Ctrl+L.

Added keyboard shortcuts for permission requests (always-allow and reject), with the shortcut hints shown on the buttons and dropdown entries.

Refreshed the agent window UI: Inter font by default, web-app icon set at web-app sizing, rounded pill session tabs (with state/PR icons), and smarter pane placement so files no longer cover your session tabs.

Pull request editor tabs now show a state-specific icon (open, draft, merged, or closed), and session-create cards show a Devin mode badge (Fast, Ultra, Fusion).

Faster syntax highlighting for streaming diffs, and typing in the input no longer lags while other background sessions stream.

Agent sidebar improvements: right-click context menus, double-click to rename, per-workspace filters/sort/grouping, greyed-out locked (read-only) sessions, a new-session shortcut hint, and sticky grouped spaces that keep their header.

Signed-out session tabs now show a “You are signed out” sign-in prompt instead of an endless spinner, and logging out cleans up stale session tabs.

Editing a past message keeps consistent typography, and the edited prompt stays visible at the bottom after a revert.

Cascade, Devin Local, and every other ACP agent are now unavailable while a workspace is open in Restricted Mode, and hooks no longer load or run there.

Devin Local customizations has a new Plugins section listing the plugins it loads and the ones your repository, organization, or account offers.

Remote agent (ACP) sessions can now open a browser preview, the same workflow Cascade has: the agent proxies your local dev server, and the elements and console output you capture land in the agent’s message box as pending context. In Devin Desktop the preview opens in the built-in browser pane next to the agent.

“Open customizations” is now available from the new-tab menu in an agent space and from a Devin Local session’s sidebar context menu, and the Cascade panel’s menu now only offers the customization surfaces that apply to the agent you have open.

MCP servers reporting “Needs auth” now show an Authenticate button in the Devin Local MCP list, marketplace card, and detail page, which clears the stored OAuth credentials and reruns the browser authorization flow.

Models marked “Devin Local only” (including every GPT-5.6 variant) now appear disabled in Cascade’s model picker with a tooltip pointing you to Devin Local, rather than running degraded in Cascade.

Closing the last tab in the agent panel with the tab “x” now closes the panel instead of reopening a blank tab, matching Cmd/Ctrl+W.

Updated the base IDE to VS Code 1.126

Devin Local

New “Devin: Open Cascade Migration Wizard” command opens a guided wizard that chains hooks → skills → memories migration in one flow, with per-item opt-in and dry-run previews.

Plan mode now works like Cascade’s: the agent researches with read-only commands, keeps a persistent Markdown plan file at ~/.devin/plans/plan-<session>.md, and asks for approval before implementing.

Worktree sessions now show a Merge button to bring their changes back into the workspace, and you can pick an existing worktree from the agent location selector’s Local submenu.

New tabs now default to Devin Local when you haven’t chosen a preferred agent (falling back to Cascade if it isn’t available), and Local is selectable in the agent selector while it’s still connecting.

Megaplan now work in Devin Local, switching the session into Plan mode and prompting the agent to plan first.

Editable command approvals: click a command in a permission card to edit it before approving, or use the wand action to describe a change in plain language and have a fast model rewrite it for review.

Queued messages can now be edited before they send, and editing or reverting a prompt preserves file, directory, skill, and terminal @-mentions.

Added Rules to the @-mention menu so you can pull a manual-trigger rule into a conversation.

Added a “Duplicate session” action to the response footer to branch off a conversation, and a “Subagents (Preview)” toggle in Devin settings.

Custom subagents can now be defined as flat agents/<name>.md files, and per-agent directories also accept AGENTS.md, agent.md, and agents.md.

Response statistics now appear reliably after every turn.

With “Agent Diff Zones” turned off, Devin Local no longer opens edited files in the background, and closing the last Devin Local tab now opens a fresh session instead of closing the panel.

Fixed streamed write / edit previews creating stray fragment files when a filename contains underscores.

Fixed permission rules written with relative globs (e.g. Read(**/*.pem)) being pinned to the directory the CLI was launched from, so they now apply under every workspace directory and pick up directories added mid-session.

Session permission grants and mode switches answered on a subagent’s prompt now apply to the whole session, so the root agent and sibling subagents no longer re-prompt for a scope you already granted.

Devin Cloud

Improved performance for loading Devin Cloud sessions.

Devin Cloud sessions now show the server-side send queue, kept in sync with the web app; Cmd/Ctrl+Enter queues the next message on the server.

Multi-user (Slack) sessions now show each participant’s name above their messages.

A “Copy link” action was added to cloud session menus.

A “Remote ACP is disconnected” banner with a Reconnect action now appears when the Cloud connection drops.

Devin Desktop

@-mention pills in Cascade now show type-specific icons.

Restyled the command palette in the Agent Command Center.

Hiding the status bar by default in the Agent Command Center (set "workbench.statusBar.visible": true in user settings to restore it).

New worktree-backed sessions now open instantly and stay interactive while the worktree is created in the background.

“View usage” now opens eligible Devin users’ personal analytics page directly.

The devin.* settings for gitignore access, completion mode, and auto-continue are now honored.

Resuming an agent session now uses its original working directory, so Claude sessions started in another folder can be reloaded.

Fixed a crash when opening the Recent Chat History modal in Cascade.

On Windows, the auto-updater now clears stale Devin.exe processes before applying updates.

Devin Cloud

Long Devin Cloud sessions render, scroll, and type faster and stay responsive while streaming.

A brief remote-connection drop no longer flashes a “disconnected” banner.

You can now configure a session’s network policy and grant or deny network access requests inline from the chat, without switching to the web app.

Devin Local

Devin Local customizations and the sidebar skills count now span all open workspace folders.

The Hooks tab in Devin Local Customizations now lists configured hooks with their source and trigger events.

Added a command to migrate Windsurf hooks into Devin hooks across every workspace folder.

Added a subtle timeline navigator for Devin Local sessions.

Added Fast Context support in Devin Local sessions.

Devin Desktop

Added “New session in space” to the session kebab menu.

Devin Cloud sessions now auto-reconnect when the network returns.

Images can now be copied from chat via the context menu.

New users now default to agent mode.

The agent sidebar now stays visible when sending problems or explain-and-fix to Cascade in agent window mode.

Fixed branch checkout silently failing to open a worktree.

Very large sessions no longer crash the window when reading or writing the session event cache.

The “Scroll to top” button in long sessions now has a solid background so it stays visible in dark themes.

Orphaned Devin ACP agent processes are now detected and cleaned up on startup, including on Windows.

Fixed analytics connection failures under TLS-intercepting proxies.

Devin Local

Edits produced in autonomous mode now produce reviewable diffs.

ACU usage is now shown in the /usage command.

Skill permissions: frontmatter now applies to auto-approvals.

Enterprise login policies are now enforced in the CLI.

Added a sandbox.excluded allow/ask/deny config (user and team settings) to run specific commands outside the sandbox; excluded commands also skip the sandbox proxy environment.

Fixed command approval parsing for PowerShell $variable assignment prefixes.

Devin Desktop

Devin ACU usage is now displayed in the client.

Fixed settings and extensions migration for Windows system-wide installs.

CLI and Devin Local

On Windows, bash now resolves to Git Bash instead of the WSL launcher stub.

Subagents can now be configured with a default model.

The MCP registry cache is now warmed during startup, so MCP servers are ready sooner.

Injected context is no longer included in auto-generated session titles.

Fixed agent messages over-merging in Claude ACP sessions.

Added an attribution option to the Devin Local config file; set it to false to suppress Devin mentions in commit messages.