Windsurf

Windsurf Editor is a code editor built by the team behind Codeium and now operated by Cognition AI following its July 2025 acquisition. Launched in November 2024, the editor treats AI as a first-class collaborator through Cascade, an agent that tracks edits, terminal commands, and clipboard activity to maintain context across multi-file coding tasks. Windsurf runs on macOS, Windows, and Linux.

Key Capabilities:

• Cascade agent for multi-file edits, documentation generation, terminal execution, and test suite creation

• Flow awareness that tracks developer actions including edits, shell commands, and clipboard to adapt without repeated prompting

• Multi-model access covering Claude Opus 4.7, GPT-5.5, GPT-5-Codex, and the proprietary SWE 1.5 model with image understanding

• Built-in browser and live preview for visual editing with element selection and instant reshaping

• Devin cloud agent integration for delegating tasks to autonomous execution on separate VMs

• MCP integration for custom tooling through the Windsurf Plugin store

• Memories, rules, and workflows with autogenerated slash commands for reusable agent behavior

• JetBrains extension bringing Cascade to IntelliJ IDEA, PyCharm, and WebStorm

• SOC 2 Type 2 compliance with cloud, self-hosted, on-premise, and air-gapped deployment options

• One-click deploy, shared conversations, GitHub PR review, and voice input for chat
  

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