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Cognition AI

Formerly Windsurf

Commercial

Cognition's agentic coding IDE, renamed from Windsurf in June 2026, with an Agent Command Center over the full editor.

Curated by Tiberiu ArvaStale

Proprietary
DocsWebsite

Strengths

  • Standalone IDE
  • Agentic coding workflows
  • Enterprise path available

Practitioner note

Can be attractive for teams chasing agentic coding workflows, but ownership churn means larger enterprises should validate roadmap stability before standardizing.

Warning

Devin Desktop: Renamed from Windsurf to Devin Desktop on June 2, 2026 after Cognition's July 2025 acquisition of the Windsurf product and brand.

Where it sits in the stack

Listed under Assistants & copilots in the Use layer.

  1. Build & orchestrate
  2. Control plane
  3. Use

Governance posture

Reviewed 2026-05-26
PartialData residency

EU residency via Frankfurt (Enterprise); US default; FedRAMP High via AWS GovCloud.

Source
YesDeployment model

Cloud, Hybrid (customer data + Windsurf compute), and fully self-hosted (Docker/K8s, private LLM). (saas, hybrid, self-hosted)

Source
PartialAudit logging

Audit logging on Enterprise Hybrid and Self-hosted only; not in the cloud SaaS tier.

Source
YesSOC 2

SOC 2 Type II; annual pen testing.

Source
UnknownISO 27001

Not stated on the Windsurf security page; post-Cognition-acquisition status unverified.

UnknownISO 42001

No ISO 42001 certification found for Windsurf/Cognition.

UnknownEU AI Act

Assessed limited-risk by product category; no published vendor EU AI Act conformity assessment. (role: limited-risk)

YesLicense risk

Proprietary SaaS; 2025 ownership turbulence (Cognition acquisition) adds roadmap risk. (high)

Source

EU AI Act obligations

Risk tier: Limited risk · as of 2026-10-10

Source-backed information mapped from Devin Desktop's tracked risk tier — not legal advice. Obligations depend on how your organisation deploys the system; see the full obligation reference and timeline.

Article 4AI literacy

Providers and deployers must take measures to ensure a sufficient level of AI literacy in staff and other persons operating AI systems on their behalf.

Applies from

Official text
Article 50Transparency for certain AI systems

People must be informed when they interact with an AI system; synthetic audio, image, video, and text content must be marked as artificially generated, and deepfakes disclosed.

Applies from

Official text

Change history

Source-backed and auto-detected events for this tool, newest first.

  1. RenameHigh impact

    Cognition renamed the Windsurf editor to Devin Desktop, keeping plans, settings, and extensions, and made an Agent Command Center the default surface.

    Windsurf is now Devin Desktop · Devin

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