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Windsurf / Cascade

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Runs local commands with your full privileges, gated only by approval prompts; strong isolation is a separate cloud product.

No OS-level isolation. This agent runs commands with your full user privileges. Its guardrails (approval prompts, allowlists) live inside your trust boundary, wrap it in a boundary you control.

Windsurf/Cascade runs local commands with your full user privileges, gated only by approval prompts, and has no local OS sandbox. Its real-isolation story is a separate cloud product, Devin cloud VMs, following Cognition's acquisition.

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