Windsurf Cascade

At a glance

What Windsurf Cascade does

Inline completion, Chat, Multi-file edits, Agent mode, MCP, Lint fixing, Drag-drop images, Web preview, Devin cloud agent, Agent Command Center

Best for

Tightly integrated AI agent with local + cloud agents, MCP, and rich UI

Works well with

Conflicts & caveats

• Windsurf Cascade only runs inside Windsurf — your IDE is VS Code.
• Replit has its own built-in AI Agent — external integrations like Windsurf Cascade cannot run inside the Replit web IDE.
• Windsurf Cascade does not officially support Xcode. Use GitHub Copilot for Xcode or Direct API.
• Windsurf Cascade has limited or no official Android Studio support. Use GitHub Copilot or JetBrains AI Assistant.
• Void Editor is BYO-API-key first — Windsurf Cascade runs as an extension on top, which can work but isn't the intended Void workflow.
• Lapce has a small plugin ecosystem; Windsurf Cascade may not have an official plugin yet.
• Positron is VS Code-based but tuned for R/Python data science — Windsurf Cascade may install but is not officially supported.
• Windsurf Cascade does not officially support RStudio — use direct API calls or the rstudio.cloud Copilot integration.
• Windsurf Cascade does not officially support Spyder — use the direct API.
• Cursor Mobile only runs Cursor-managed agents and background tasks — local-only integrations like Windsurf Cascade cannot run on the phone.
• Windsurf Cascade does not officially support Eclipse — Copilot, Tabnine, and Codeium are the main supported options.
• Windsurf Cascade does not officially support Apache NetBeans — Copilot and Tabnine are the main supported options.
• @codebase (Cursor) only works with Cursor built-in integration (yours is Windsurf Cascade).
• Continue's codebase indexing only works when the integration is Continue.dev (yours is Windsurf Cascade).
• Aider architect mode requires the Aider integration (yours is Windsurf Cascade).