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Windsurf

Also known asCodeium Windsurf
An AI-powered code editor (VS Code fork) originally created by Codeium and later acquired by Cognition. Launched in November 2024 as a competitor to Cursor, it features the Cascade agent that indexes entire codebases for context-aware assistance. Positions itself as a 'next-generation agentic IDE' with full-codebase understanding, inline editing, and autonomous multi-step task execution.

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