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# Bringing Devin Cloud to your terminal

CognitionSeptember 21, 20262 min read

Introducing Devin Cloud in your terminal. Starting today, you can create, steer, resume, and watch your Devin Cloud sessions right from your favorite terminal. Just use `devin --cloud` or `/cloud`.

![A Devin Cloud session running inside the terminal](https://devin.ai/images/blog/devin-cloud-in-your-terminal/cloud-loop.gif)

## Devin CLI meets Devin Cloud

Devin CLI is perfect for fast local iteration with your favorite models, but sometimes you want to hand off the implementation details to an agent. With `/handoff` you can now instantly transfer any task to Devin to continue iterating on with its own cloud VM.

Importantly, handing off a task doesn’t require switching your workflow: once you’ve delegated work to Devin, you can continue to observe and steer progress directly from your terminal as if Devin was working locally—while having the freedom to close your laptop and let Devin continue in the background.

### Pick back up, anywhere

Cloud sessions outlive the terminal that started them.

When a terminal isn’t the right view, `/open [web]` opens the current session in the web app, and `/open desktop` opens it in [Devin Desktop](https://devin.ai/desktop). Use the terminal to steer, and the browser when you want to watch Devin’s desktop or review a recording.

```
/open [web|desktop]
```

And, you can come back to the terminal whenever you want. `devin --cloud --resume` opens any cloud session right back in the terminal.

```
devin --cloud --resume https://app.devin.ai/sessions/…
```

## Full SSH access

When you hand off work to the cloud, Devin sets up a full development environment on a dedicated VM. We’re now launching full SSH support for Devin VMs, allowing you to use Devin’s development environment as your own. With a simple `devin ssh` you can instantly connect to the remote VM and:

- Explore and edit source code directly in Devin Desktop
- Launch dev servers and forward ports to interactively test Devin’s work
- Copy files between the VM and your machine using scp

devin ssh

![Connecting to a Devin cloud VM over SSH from the terminal](https://devin.ai/images/blog/devin-cloud-in-your-terminal/ssh.png)

## Bring the work `$HOME`

When you want to polish the final details locally, you can also run `/handoff` in a cloud session to bring the work back locally: it fetches the session’s pull request branch, switches your Git checkout to it, and starts a local session on that code.

## Try Devin in your terminal today

We’re making it even easier to try Devin Cloud from your terminal, with free SWE-2 sessions available until October 8.

Just install the Devin CLI and run `devin --cloud` to start:

```
curl -fsSL https://cli.devin.ai/install.sh | bash
```

Read more in the [docs](https://docs.devin.ai/cli/cloud).

Table of contents

[Devin CLI meets Devin Cloud](#devin-cli-meets-devin-cloud)[Pick back up, anywhere](#pick-back-up-anywhere)[Full SSH access](#full-ssh-access)[Bring the work $HOME](#bring-the-work-home)[Try Devin in your terminal today](#try-devin-in-your-terminal-today)