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Cognition · agent platform · paid

Autonomous software engineering agent product from Cognition.

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DevinJul 28, 2026

​ What are Devin’s strengths?

Tackling many tasks in parallel, before they end up in your backlog Linear/Jira tickets · Entire features from scratch · Bug reports · App testing · Code migrations, refactors, and modernization Language migrations (e.g. · JavaScript to TypeScript) · Framework upgrades (e.g. · Angular 16 -> 18) · Monorepo to submodule conversions · Removing unused feature flags · +18 more changes
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  • Tackling many tasks in parallel, before they end up in your backlog Linear/Jira tickets
  • Entire features from scratch
  • Bug reports
  • App testing
  • Code migrations, refactors, and modernization Language migrations (e.g. JavaScript to TypeScript)
  • Framework upgrades (e.g. Angular 16 -> 18)
  • Monorepo to submodule conversions
  • Removing unused feature flags
  • Extracting common code into libraries
  • Common, repetitive engineering tasks PR Review
  • Codebase Q&A
  • Reproducing & fixing bugs
  • Writing unit tests
  • Maintaining documentation
  • Customer engineering support Building new integrations and working with unfamiliar APIs
  • Creating customized demos
  • Prototyping solutions
  • Building internal tools
  • Write clear prompts with explicit completion criteria — the clearer the task, the higher the success rate, especially for complex work.
  • Make tasks easy to verify — e.g. checking that CI passes or testing an automatic deployment.
  • For harder tasks, break them into well-scoped steps and provide relevant context or examples.
  • Follow our best practices and pre-task checklist .
  • Tagging Devin on a Slack or Teams thread about a bug you’re discussing with coworkers

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DevinJul 28, 2026

Introducing Devin

Devin is the AI software engineer, built to help ambitious engineering teams crush their backlogs. · A quick tour of DevinPrimary source ↗
DevinJul 28, 2026

On this page

Already Signed Up? Get Started Now: · What are Devin’s strengths? · General Product Features The Devin Interface · Getting Access · Feedback · Demo · About CognitionPrimary source ↗
DevinJul 28, 2026

Product Guides

Skills · Memory · Plugins · Set up your plugin ecosystem · Session Insights · Secrets & Site Cookies · Security Profiles · Cloud Authentication with OIDC · Creating Playbooks · Using Playbooks · Automations · Oncall · Auto-triage · Scheduled Sessions · Deployments · Responding to bots · Invite your TeamPrimary source ↗
DevinJul 28, 2026

Working with Devin

Devin Review · Stacked PRs · Devin Session Tools · Voice mode · Computer Use · Browser Authentication · Testing & Video Recordings · Slash Commands · Ask Devin · Data Analyst Agent · DeepWiki · Security Swarm · Code Scans · Hand off to cloud Devins · Local Hands · MCP (Model Context Protocol) Marketplace · DeepWiki MCP · Devin MCP · Devin CLI · Advanced Capabilities · Dynamic WorkflowsPrimary source ↗
DevinJul 28, 2026

Onboarding Devin

Environment configuration · Devin Outposts · Index a Repository · VPN configuration · Knowledge Onboarding · AGENTS.mdPrimary source ↗
DevinJul 28, 2026

Essential Guidelines

When to Use Devin · Instructing Devin Effectively · Good vs. · Bad Instructions · Prompt Templates Cheat Sheet · How does Devin fit into my existing SDLC?Primary source ↗

Polled sources

[changelog] Devin changelog / docs

Product page · last read Oct 24, 2026

https://docs.devin.ai

[cognition-blog] Cognition blog

Product page · not polled

https://cognition.ai/blog