Cognition’s Devin for Terminal adds a terminal-based version of Devin that the company describes as running locally in a shell with access to a codebase, tools, and environment. The post is dated April 27, 2026 and includes a single-command install: `curl -fsSL https://cli.devin.ai/install.sh | bash`.
The company states that the local version can use frontier models including Opus 4.7, GPT-5.5, and SWE-1.6. Cognition also claims it built a custom terminal rendering library in Rust for the interface.
The more notable part of the announcement is the cloud handoff. Cognition says that when a session outgrows a laptop, the same work can be passed to a cloud agent with its own computer. According to the post, that setup is meant to allow several workflows at once, including:
- running multiple agents against the same codebase without worktrees or setup scripts
- letting tests run in a browser while work continues elsewhere
- opening a PR and handling review comments
- keeping the agent inside its own sandbox rather than the local filesystem
The post also mentions a VT-100 demo and links to a film at devin.ai/terminal, with a note that Devin was run on a VT-100 terminal.
Source: Cognition
