Devin CLI · Continuity · May 4–10, 2026
2 releases · updated
Devin CLI adds /copy command
Two releases of Devin CLI shipped this week, bringing a new /copy command and web search functionality to users. The /copy command allows users to copy the last agent response to the system clipboard, which helps power users work more efficiently. This change is particularly useful for developers who need to quickly reference and reuse information from their agent sessions.
v2026.5.6-1 · May 8, 2026
This release adds a /copy command to copy the last agent response to the system clipboard, as well as a web search tool and numbered options in select prompts. It also fixes several issues, including premature response truncation and incorrect file line numbers in edit tool previews. The output token limit has been raised to match each model’s actual capacity.
Official release notes
Web search
Search the web directly from your Devin CLI sessions. The agent can look up documentation, find solutions, and pull in relevant information from the internet without leaving the terminal.
Added
- Built-in OAuth device flow for GitHub MCP server.
devin mcp add github --url https://api.githubcopilot.com/mcp/now authenticates via device flow (enter a code at github.com/login/device) without needing--oauth-client-id. /copycommand to copy the last agent response to the system clipboard. Works over SSH connections and on Linux desktops.- Numbered options in select prompts can now be picked directly with the
1-9keys instead of arrowing + Enter. The shortcut is shown as a digit prefix on each option in non-search prompts. web_searchtool for searching the web during agent sessions.
Fixed
- Cancelling a session now also stops running subagents instead of letting them continue in the background
- Shell commands that redirect output to
/dev/null(e.g.2>/dev/null,>/dev/null,&>/dev/null) no longer prompt for write permission to/dev/null. - Edit tool previews now show correct file line numbers instead of always starting from 1.
- Output token limit raised from 16k to match each model’s actual capacity (128k for Opus, 64k for Sonnet), preventing premature response truncation.
- Option+Backspace now correctly deletes words in select menus (user question “Other” field and search) on BS-mode terminals, instead of inserting ‘h’.
- Slash command output now has consistent visual separation from the prompt, matching how agent responses are displayed.
v2026.5.5-0 · May 5, 2026
This release adds the ability to find model-invocable skills recursively under a project path and filter them by keywords using the skill search command. It also changes the default model to SWE 1.6 Fast and fixes several issues, including process hangs and incorrect command hints.
Official release notes
Added
skill searchcan find model-invocable skills recursively under a project path and filter them by keywords.
Changed
- Default model is now SWE 1.6 Fast instead of Adaptive.
Fixed
apply_patchdiffs now appear incrementally as the patch is being written, not just after it completes. Both new-file and modify-existing-file patches show diffs progressively.- Command hints now show the binary name used to launch Devin CLI when run through a renamed binary, symlink, or alias.
- Fixed process hang when MCP OAuth dynamic client registration fails. The local callback server was not properly shut down on error, causing the process to block indefinitely waiting for a browser redirect that would never arrive.
/steps,/revert, and/forknow show and work with steps from before compaction. Previously, compacting a session made all earlier steps invisible and unrevertible.- Text now correctly appears before tool calls in scrollback when both are produced in the same streaming turn.
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