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Devin/desktop

Open in Devin Desktop

Opens the Devin desktop app with the prompt.

macos · windows · linux · sign-in required · updated 2026-07-13

Format

devin://cascade?prompt={prompt}

Try it

devin://cascade?prompt=Fix%20the%20failing%20auth%20testsOpen

What you supply

{prompt}

What to hand the agent.

URL-encode it. An unencoded & ends the prompt and starts a new parameter.

cascade is not a typo. Cascade was Windsurf's agent; Cognition acquired Windsurf, and Devin Desktop is that client renamed. The path outlived the brand. See the app page.

It fails silently. The docs sites that ship this button call window.open("devin://…") with no fallback, so on a machine without Devin Desktop nothing happens at all — no error, no download page, no hint that the link was ever meant to do something. That is the argument for offering the web link alongside it rather than instead of it, which is exactly what those sites do.