AI AGENTS

Windsurf Cascade

by Windsurf

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Overview

Cascade is Windsurf’s agentic AI coding assistant for AI-powered development workflows.

Details

Cascade is documented by Windsurf as an agentic AI coding assistant and agentic chatbot within the Windsurf AI IDE. Official source excerpts describe Cascade as supporting code/chat modes, tool calling, planning, checkpoints, terminal use, and codebase awareness. Windsurf documentation also says Cascade can search the web and documentation using @web and @docs mentions, parse URLs, and read pages such as documentation, blog posts, and GitHub files.

When to Use

Use Cascade when working in Windsurf and you want an agentic AI coding assistant with codebase awareness planning tool use and terminal interaction. Use Cascade when a development workflow benefits from AI chat/code modes plus the ability to search web pages documentation or GitHub files from within the assistant.

Getting Started

Open the Cascade product page at https://windsurf.com/cascade to review the official overview.
Read the Cascade documentation at https://docs.windsurf.com/windsurf/cascade before relying on it for development workflows.
Review the Web and Docs Search documentation to understand @web
@docs
URL parsing
and supported page-reading behavior.
Check the Exafunction GitHub organization if you need Windsurf-related repositories or integrations.

Key Features

•Agentic coding assistant inside Windsurf
•Code and chat modes
•Tool calling and planning support
•Checkpoints
•terminal use
•and codebase awareness
•Web and documentation search with @web and @docs mentions
•Can parse URLs and read pages including documentation
•blog posts
•and GitHub files

Capabilities

•agentic coding assistance
•codebase-aware chat
•tool use
•planning
•terminal interaction
•web and documentation search

Last updated Jun 9, 2026