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Bringing Devin Cloud to your terminal

Bringing Devin Cloud to your terminal

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Cognition has moved Devin Cloud into the terminal, allowing developers to hand off tasks to an agent-managed VM without switching context.
What: Devin CLI now supports a `/handoff` command to transfer tasks to a cloud-based VM, with full SSH access provided to the remote environment. Cognition is offering free SWE-2 sessions through October 8, 2026.
Why it matters: This integration treats remote AI agents as an extension of the local developer environment, blurring the line between local coding and cloud-based agentic workflows.
Takeaway: Install the CLI and run `devin --cloud` to start a session before the free trial expires on October 8, 2026.
Deep dive
  • Allows users to steer, watch, and resume cloud-based agent sessions directly from the CLI.
  • Provides full SSH access to the agent's VM, enabling developers to edit code, launch dev servers, and forward ports.
  • Facilitates seamless back-and-forth between local and cloud environments.
  • Includes a /open command for shifting to a web-based UI when visual monitoring is preferred.
Decoder
  • SSH: A protocol used to securely connect to a remote computer, allowing developers to manage files and execute commands.
Original article

Introducing Devin Cloud in your terminal. Starting today, you can create, steer, resume, and watch your Devin Cloud sessions right from your favorite terminal. Just use devin --cloud or /cloud.

Devin CLI meets Devin Cloud

Devin CLI is perfect for fast local iteration with your favorite models, but sometimes you want to hand off the implementation details to an agent. With /handoff you can now instantly transfer any task to Devin to continue iterating on with its own cloud VM.

Importantly, handing off a task doesn’t require switching your workflow: once you’ve delegated work to Devin, you can continue to observe and steer progress directly from your terminal as if Devin was working locally—while having the freedom to close your laptop and let Devin continue in the background.

Pick back up, anywhere

Cloud sessions outlive the terminal that started them.

When a terminal isn’t the right view, /open [web] opens the current session in the web app, and /open desktop opens it in Devin Desktop. Use the terminal to steer, and the browser when you want to watch Devin’s desktop or review a recording.

/open [web|desktop]

And, you can come back to the terminal whenever you want. devin --cloud --resume opens any cloud session right back in the terminal.

devin --cloud --resume https://app.devin.ai/sessions/…

Full SSH access

When you hand off work to the cloud, Devin sets up a full development environment on a dedicated VM. We’re now launching full SSH support for Devin VMs, allowing you to use Devin’s development environment as your own. With a simple devin ssh you can instantly connect to the remote VM and:

  • Explore and edit source code directly in Devin Desktop
  • Launch dev servers and forward ports to interactively test Devin’s work
  • Copy files between the VM and your machine using scp

Bring the work $HOME

When you want to polish the final details locally, you can also run /handoff in a cloud session to bring the work back locally: it fetches the session’s pull request branch, switches your Git checkout to it, and starts a local session on that code.

Try Devin in your terminal today

We’re making it even easier to try Devin Cloud from your terminal, with free SWE-2 sessions available until October 8.

Just install the Devin CLI and run devin --cloud to start:

curl -fsSL https://cli.devin.ai/install.sh | bash
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