Cognition just dropped a local version of its programming agent Devin. Meet Devin for Terminal — it runs right in your command line with full access to your codebase, dev tools, and local environment. You can switch between frontier models, including Anthropic's Claude Opus 4.7, OpenAI's GPT-5.5, and Cognition's own SWE-1.6. When your laptop isn't enough, the CLI can hand the session off to the cloud — close the lid, and Devin keeps working.
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The terminal UI is built with a custom rendering library written in Rust. The team even managed to run Devin on a 1978 VT-100 — the standalone terminal that's the hardware ancestor of today's terminal apps.
Devin's hybrid approach stands in contrast to fully local models like Alibaba's open-source Qwen3.6-27B, which run entirely on-device without a cloud escape hatch.