Devin Desktop · Continuity · Aug 3–9, 2026
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Devin Desktop: Settings and Keyboard Shortcuts open as tabs
This week, Devin Desktop shipped three releases with various updates. The main change is that Settings and Keyboard Shortcuts now open as regular editor tabs by default. This change helps users who prefer a more streamlined workflow.
v3.7.1003 (Next) · August 4, 2026
The Devin Desktop release includes changes such as Settings and Keyboard Shortcuts opening as regular editor tabs, visual polish for the Agent Command Center, and improvements to starting agents in new worktrees. It also fixes issues with Terminal creation in editor areas and surfaces git errors when starting agents in new worktrees. Additionally, codemaps and MCP configuration files can now be opened from remote machines. The release also includes updates to Devin Local, such as the ability to share conversations and improvements to the Customizations panel. Devin Cloud updates include staying available in untrusted workspaces and adding auto-continuation billing notices.
Official release notes
Devin Desktop
- Settings and Keyboard Shortcuts open as regular editor tabs by default; set
"workbench.editor.useModal": "all"to keep the modal overlay. - “Restart to Update” now asks for confirmation when local agents are still working and says how many will be stopped; cloud sessions keep running.
- Visual polish for the Agent Command Center: left-aligned titlebar, unsaved-changes indicator on file tabs, no more Cmd+P open/close flicker, aligned PR icons in Quick Open, full-width sidebar title renaming, and dragged session tabs that pick up their session name.
- Starting an agent in a new worktree that fails now surfaces the git error instead of quietly running in your workspace, and Terminal: Create New Terminal in Editor Area works again inside worktrees.
- Codemaps and MCP configuration files now open from the remote machine when connected over WSL, SSH, or a dev container.
- Teams plan members no longer see quota warning banners they cannot act on.
Devin Local
- Devin Local conversations can be shared: Share Conversation uploads a sanitized transcript (system prompts and tool definitions dropped, secrets redacted, paths normalized) and copies a team-visible link.
- Reverting is reliable mid-turn: revert buttons appear as soon as a prompt is sent and reverting while the agent is working cancels the turn first.
- The Customizations panel has search across every section (skills, subagents, rules, hooks, plugins, MCP servers), a new Subagents section, a refresh action for plugins, and an info indicator explaining why an enterprise-required plugin can’t be removed.
- The transcript shows “Your modified files:” and “Your recent terminal commands:” lists, so you can see what Devin was told about between turns.
- Devin Local now activates for anyone with Windsurf access (no separate CLI permission needed).
- Permission rules from different levels (enterprise, mode, user, project, subagent) now compose predictably — an explicit
deny:always wins, “always allow” options only appear when the grant would actually take effect, and denials say which layer denied them. - Fixed rendering of commands whose output contains non-UTF-8 bytes.
- Ensured
sudopassword prompts can’t hang a command. - Session history is now cached in SQLite; sessions cached by an older build show a one-time loading state the first time they are reopened.
Devin Cloud
- Devin Cloud stays available in untrusted (Restricted Mode) workspaces, since cloud sessions run nothing on your machine; Cascade and Devin Local still wait until you trust the workspace.
- Session size chips use the same enterprise ACU thresholds as the web app, and auto-continuation billing notices appear inline in the transcript.
- Queued messages can be edited: click the edit button or press ⬆ in an empty input to pull the last queued message back.
- The
+X −Ydiff summary on a collapsed agent group is now clickable and opens a multi-diff editor with just that group’s files. - “Duplicate session” and “send as fork” open the fork in a new tab, keeping the original conversation open.
- “Grant access” on a network access request is disabled with an explanation when an admin owns the session’s network policy.
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