Windsurf Editor is a free IDE with Anthropic's AI integration

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Windsurf Editor is built for the way AI is meant to work with humans. Everything you love in Codeium and more, with unmatched performance and a user experience that keeps you in the flow.

You can think of the Windsurf Editor as the first agentic IDE, and then more. It is a new paradigm of working with AI, which we are calling AI flows - collaborative agents.

Features

Flows

The Windsurf Editor is powered by an AI that can both collaborate with you like a Copilot and tackle complex tasks independently like an Agent. The AI is completely in sync with you, every step of the way. Flows allow the dev and AI to operate on the same state at all times, creating a mind-meld experience beyond just an assistant.

Cascade

Cascade combines deep codebase understanding, a breadth of advanced tools, and a real-time awareness of your actions into a powerful, seamless, and collaborative flow. It is the most powerful way to code with AI.

Cascade lets you build and refine complex codebases with ease. Multi-file multi-edit capability. Deep contextual awareness. Terminal command suggestions. LLM-based search tools that outperform embeddings. Implicit reasoning of your actions in the text editor. Blazing fast latency. All in one magical experience.

Full contextual awareness

Deep contextual awareness allows you to run Cascade on production codebases and still get relevant suggestions.

Suggest and run commands

Cascade's tools encompass command suggestion and execution, as well as issue detection and debugging.

Pick up where you left off

With automatic reasoning of your explicit actions, Cascade can pick up your work where you left off.

Multi-file editing

Coherent multi-file edits through context awareness, tool integration, and iterative problem-solving.

What's New

Cascade Memories

You can configure rules for Cascade Memories to follow. For example, you can use rules to specify if you want Cascade to respond in a certain language, communicate in a specific style, or use a specific API
Rules can be found in the Windsurf Quick Settings panel by clicking on "Windsurf Settings" on the status bar
Global rules are rules that will be applied to Cascade in all workspaces
Workspace rules are rules that will be applied to Cascade in the current workspace
More information can be found on our docs.

Cascade Auto Run Commands

Cascade can now automatically detect to run certain terminal commands if it deems safe to do. This option is checked off by default and can be enabled in the Settings page, accessible in the top right dropdown. This only affects Cascade responses by premium models
Supports an allow list and deny list of commands for Cascade to run. Allow list always accept the command and deny list always requests for permission to run a command.

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