Cognition Brings Devin's Cloud VM to the Terminal, with SSH and Local/Cloud Session Handoff

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Summary

Cognition's Devin Cloud added direct SSH and cloud-to-local session handoff, letting developers treat cloud VMs as an extension of their terminals. Features include devin ssh into the cloud VM shell, editing, SCP, and port forwarding; starting with devin --cloud, resuming with devin --cloud --resum…

Key points

Long-running tasks (integration tests, builds, migrations, large refactors) often stall on environment switching; this update lets developers continue work without leaving the CLI, directly applicable in practice.
Seamless handoff between cloud and local sessions is a key infrastructure step toward truly embedding AI agents into daily development rhythms.
Teams running long builds or large-scale refactors can treat cloud VMs as an extension of their local environment, but should note free-tier time limits and account and CLI installation prerequisites.

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