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Windsurf’s rename turns Devin Desktop into a migration decision

The new page now frames it around fleets of local and cloud agents, not just a desktop app.

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v2-fresh-146 · 2026-08-19 · daily change-intelligence on agentic tools

Windsurf’s rename turns Devin Desktop into a migration decision

Windsurf’s site now says the product is Devin Desktop, and that is more than a cosmetic rename: the messaging shifts to managing fleets of local and cloud agents from one surface. At the same time, Gobii says it is winding down and will end operations on September 1, 2026, with refunds for active paid subscriptions. Dust also pushed its site into a broader platform story with MCP integrations, a Dust API, a Chrome extension, and observability. If you are standardizing around an agent layer, today is a check on vendor continuity and whether your current tool is still the one to build on.

See what changed on Devin Desktop's listing

What changed on the ground

Changes we detected on each tool's own pages — pricing, features, platform reach — via our daily crawls. Often ahead of any press coverage; each links to the scored listing.

Gobii Deprecation
21/36 · Domain Specialist
Gobii says it is winding down, with final day of operations on September 1, 2026 — Gobii added a company update announcing it is winding down and that operations will end on September 1, 2026. The page also notes customer next steps, including refunds for active paid subscriptions.
Source: the tool's own site — detected 2026-08-19 by agentic.ai's daily recrawl.
Devin Desktop Repositioning
17/36 · Adaptive Collaborator
Windsurf rebrands as Devin Desktop and adds updated desktop agent messaging — The page now states that Devin Desktop is the new name for Windsurf, with new positioning around managing fleets of local and cloud agents from one surface.
Source: the tool's own site — detected 2026-08-19 by agentic.ai's daily recrawl.
Julius AI Pricing change
11/36 · Guided Assistant
Julius AI adds public pricing tiers and expands into website, browser… — Julius AI introduced a new public pricing page with Free, Plus, Pro, Max, and Business tiers, along with updated limits and model access.
Source: the tool's own site — detected 2026-08-19 by agentic.ai's daily recrawl.
Canva Magic Studio Feature launch
8/36 · Guided Assistant
Canva launches Canva AI 2.0 with conversational design, connected tools… — Canva’s Magic Studio page has been substantially rewritten around Canva AI 2.0, introducing conversation-driven creation, context from connected tools, editable outputs, and new AI-assisted design actions.
Source: the tool's own site — detected 2026-08-18 by agentic.ai's daily recrawl.
Dust Platform expansion
10/36 · Guided Assistant
Dust revamps homepage with new pricing, MCP support, API, and Chrome extension — Dust's site now positions the product as "Multiplayer AI for human-agent collaboration" and surfaces several concrete platform changes: updated pricing tiers, MCP integrations, a Dust API, a Chrome extension, and AI observability/analytics…
Source: the tool's own site — detected 2026-08-19 by agentic.ai's daily recrawl.
n8n Platform expansion
13/36 · Adaptive Collaborator
n8n adds new integration and trigger pages for Acuity Scheduling, Figma… — The n8n site now includes multiple new integration/trigger pages and related docs, including Acuity Scheduling Trigger, Figma Trigger (Beta), Form.io Trigger, and TimescaleDB.
Source: the tool's own site — detected 2026-08-19 by agentic.ai's daily recrawl.

Agenticness Leaderboard

This week's most-clicked tools, re-ranked by rubric score. The score is the editorial signal; the popularity is what drew the directory's traffic here this week.

GitHub Copilot helps you write, review, and adapt code directly in GitHub, your IDE, and the terminal. It supports everything from inline suggestions to agentic coding workflows with broader model choices and enterprise controls.

  • Cursor · 18/36 · Adaptive Collaborator · L2

Cursor is a developer-focused AI environment that adds agents, context, and automation around your repositories. It combines an editor-like interface, a CLI, and a cloud agent API to automate code review, bug fixing, CI hygiene, and more. Designed for individual developers and engineering teams who want AI to take real actions in their code and infrastructure, not just chat.

  • Cline · 18/36 · Adaptive Collaborator · L2

Cline is an AI coding assistant for VS Code that can inspect your project, edit files, run terminal commands, and use a browser while asking for permission at each step. It is aimed at developers working on real codebases who want more than code completion.

  • OpenHands · 18/36 · Adaptive Collaborator · L2

OpenHands (formerly OpenDevin) is a fully autonomous open-source AI coding agent. MIT-licensed core, plans + executes Python actions via CodeAct, uses browser + terminal + files. ~72% on SWE-bench Verified with Sonnet 4.5 via the OpenHands Software Agent SDK (arXiv:2511.03690).

  • Req2Ops · 4/36 · Reactive Tool · L0

Req2Ops turns client briefs, emails, and PDFs into structured project plans. It helps teams capture missing details, organize work, and identify next actions before development starts.

What operators are searching for this week

A week's demand signal — what operators are typing into the directory's search. Suggestion-chip defaults + off-topic / greetings filtered.

  • "AI for customer support"
  • "Agentic Website builder"
  • "AI agent to triage and reply to my email inbox"
  • "best coding agent for a large existing codebase"
  • "tools to automate customer support ticket triage"

Learn: Autonomy Levels in Agentic AI

Autonomy levels describe how much a system can do without a human in the loop. The ladder usually goes: suggest, act with approval, act then report, and act unattended. A travel assistant is a clean example. At the suggest level, it lists flights and hotels. At act-with-approval, it drafts the bookings and waits for you to click confirm. At act-then-report, it books the trip first and sends you the receipt after. At act-unattended, it books within set rules on its own. Most products sold as “agents” sit on the first two rungs. That gap matters, because naming a tool an agent says little about how much control it really has.

What agentic AI actually means →

One tool worth testing

Today's signal didn't produce a clear single-tool pick worth a test session. Tomorrow's read picks it back up.

Our pick: Clay

The use case: sales & marketing.

Tops our independent /36 — strongest on action and autonomy, ahead of 11x Alice. Pricing: Actions + data credits (two meters).

Ranked by our 9-dimension Agenticness rubric — not by who pays us (nobody does). The full scorecard, true-cost pricing, and the reliability evidence behind every score are in the report.

Read the full report →

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