devin capabilities

Devin accepts a natural-language task description and works independently — planning, coding, running tests, browsing documentation, and iterating — until the task is complete or it needs human input. Sessions are observable in real time and interruptible at any point.

Devin CLI is a local coding agent that runs in your terminal, with access to your local files and environment. It can hand off tasks to cloud Devin via a "/handoff" command, enabling a seamless local-to-cloud workflow.

Every Devin session runs inside an ephemeral, fully isolated cloud VM that includes a shell/terminal, a code editor (IDE), and a browser. All three surfaces are observable in real time with sub-50 ms latency; users can take over any of them at any moment.

Devin automatically indexes connected repositories and generates a wiki with architecture diagrams, source links, and codebase summaries (DeepWiki). Ask Devin provides natural-language Q&A over the indexed codebase with code citations, and can generate context-rich prompts to seed agent sessions.

A REST API lets teams create and manage Devin sessions, knowledge bases, playbooks, and secrets programmatically, and integrate Devin into custom tooling or CI pipelines.

Devin Review is an in-webapp code-review platform that re-organises PR diffs logically, detects bugs by severity, and provides codebase-aware chat so reviewers can ask questions about changes without leaving the review interface.

Devin offers SAML/OIDC SSO, role-based access control, per-repo and per-tool scoping, a network egress allowlist, SIEM-exportable session transcripts, and an optional single-tenant VPC deployment for organisations with compliance requirements.

Devin connects to Jira and Linear so that assigning a ticket (or adding a label or @-mentioning Devin in a comment) automatically starts a coding session, which then posts PR links and progress back to the ticket.

Knowledge is a persistent, org-wide library of tips, documentation, and instructions that Devin automatically recalls when contextually relevant. Playbooks are reusable prompt templates for repeated tasks, functioning like custom system prompts scoped to specific workflows.

Devin connects to external services via the Model Context Protocol, giving it access to databases, monitoring tools, productivity apps, and more during sessions. A built-in marketplace offers 30+ pre-configured servers; users can also add arbitrary custom servers.

Multiple Devin instances can run simultaneously on separate, isolated VMs. A parent session can also orchestrate child sessions, delegating sub-tasks to a coordinated team of Devins and collecting their outputs.

Devin uses a usage-based billing model centred on Agent Compute Units (ACUs), where 1 ACU represents roughly 15 minutes of active Devin work. Plans range from a free tier to an enterprise custom tier.

Devin operates as a Slack bot; team members tag @Devin in any channel or thread to start sessions, ask codebase questions, or run data queries — all without leaving Slack.