Cascade Reaches End-of-Life; Devin Local Launches with Open ACP Protocol

Cognition

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Cascade — the agentic core of Windsurf (rebranded to Devin Desktop on June 2) — reached end-of-life on July 1. Devin Local replaces it: a Rust rewrite claiming up to 30% better token efficiency with parallel subagents. Devin Desktop now ships native support for the open Agent Client Protocol (ACP, Apache 2.0), allowing Codex, Claude Agent, Gemini CLI, and OpenCode to run as first-class sessions. CI pipelines invoking Cascade by name require manual re-pointing.

Why it matters

Cascade's EOL completes Cognition's pivot from Windsurf's architecture. ACP support positions Devin Desktop as an agent host rather than a single-agent IDE — a structural bet that developers want to manage multiple coding agents from one interface.

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Cascade EOL breaks CI pipelines; Devin Local with open ACP establishes first cross-agent protocol for IDE hosting

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Sources

media Cascade Is Dead: Fix Your CI Pipeline Before It Breaks — byteiota

media Windsurf Becomes Devin Desktop as Cognition Pivots to Agent Command Center — Web Developer