Devin Spotlights 20 Features, Local Hands

Local Hands is more consequential than another interface upgrade: it blurs the boundary between remote coding agents and developers’ real environments.

• –Cloud agents can interact with local workflows without requiring everything to move into a hosted VM.
• –Local command execution raises the importance of permissions, approvals, sandboxing, and audit trails.
• –Devin’s expanding Desktop feature set suggests a broader control plane for coordinating local and cloud agents.
• –Developers could use local sessions for hands-on work, then delegate longer-running tasks to Devin Cloud.
• –Teams should test exactly what files, tools, and commands Local Hands can access before enabling it in sensitive repositories.