Partner POV | Windsurf Wave 12: Devin features in Windsurf

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Our goal for Windsurf is to build the most powerful IDE for world-class developers. Today, we're excited to announce Wave 12, which brings us closer to that vision. Wave 12 comes with a fresh look, new features that integrate Devin's capabilities into your IDE, and a suite of updates that will make Windsurf faster, more reliable, and smarter than ever before.

Bringing Devin features into Windsurf

Our team is focused on bringing the core insights that power Devin, the world's most powerful SWE agent, to Windsurf. With Wave 12, we're excited to launch our first direct integrations between Devin and Windsurf.

DeepWiki

Another feature that we're proud to bring to Windsurf is Devin's DeepWiki. When we built DeepWiki, our goal was to build a documentation system that makes it easy for engineers to quickly understand codebases that they're unfamiliar with. But as developers, we know sometimes it's more convenient to read through the code yourself. This is what inspired us to bring DeepWiki to the IDE.

Unlike traditional language server hover cards that show basic type information and comments, Windsurf now features DeepWiki-powered cards that help you understand functions, variables, and classes as you read through the codebase. DeepWiki in Windsurf can be triggered in two different ways: you can hover over different symbols, or you can CMD/Ctrl+Shift+Click on a symbol in order to open an explanation on the left-hand side panel, which you can then easily add to your Cascade context.

Vibe and Replace

We're excited to introduce Vibe and Replace. Like Find and Replace, it starts with exact text matching, but instead of simple replacement, we apply an AI prompt to each match for intelligent, context-aware transformations. Generate documentation, rename variables semantically, or remove feature flags that adapt to each location's specific context.

As part of our ongoing work to turn Windsurf into the world's most intelligent agentic IDE, we've added numerous updates to Cascade and Tab. These updates are directly influenced by our work on Devin and should enable users to see faster and more reliable results in Windsurf.

Cascade is more intelligent

Wave 12 brings exciting new updates to the Cascade agent. First, planning mode is now automatic, with no manual toggles needed. Cascade intelligently decides when to make a plan and autonomously creates to-do lists when appropriate, directly in the chat, to scope out long-running tasks.

Second, we've revamped Cascade's tools. Edits are more accurate, and code exploration fully leverages the long context of new models. We've made Cascade faster, smarter and more reliable than ever.

Faster Tab

Our Tab autocomplete feature is now powered by a new system that makes more frequent, smarter suggestions. We've specifically worked on making the UI less invasive, deployed an improved diff algorithm, and tuned the system to be less aggressive when you're just reading code.

A new look for Windsurf

As Windsurf continues to evolve, we wanted to create an interface that better reflects its growing capabilities. Because of this, we decided to bring a new look to Windsurf. The new Windsurf UI now features all-new Chat and Cascade panels that make it easier to scan the agent's trajectory and understand its most important actions and tool calls.

Our commitment to quality and stability

An IDE is first and foremost a tool that you need to rely on every day for your work, whether it's a new project or a large codebase. Because of this, our team has worked tirelessly to improve the reliability and performance of Windsurf overall. As part of this update, we're shipping over 100 bug and reliability fixes.

Dev Containers

With Wave 12, Windsurf now supports development containers via remote access. Dev Container commands are now available when connected to a remote host through SSH and enable developers to work with containers directly from their Windsurf editor.