Windsurf Wave 5

Mar 14, 2025

Wave 5 has just one feature: Windsurf Tab.

Windsurf Tab is especially magical because it is built on top of the same context that is used to power Cascade. Cascade is able to capture what happens in other surfaces such as the text editor, terminal, and clipboard. This way, there is fine-grained intent that can be automatically captured by Cascade without the developer’s explicit specification. Similarly, Windsurf Tab cohesively captures the fine-grained global set of actions, leading to some emergent behavior that no other solution on the market can do currently.

In fact, just like Cascade is aware of the actions done in the text editor, Windsurf Tab is aware of the conversations that have happened in Cascade:

everybody, including free users, get unlimited Windsurf Tab completions.
paying users get a significantly faster and snappier experience.**

With Wave 5, we believe that Windsurf Tab is the best passive predictive AI system on the market, and we are coupling it with Cascade, the best agentic AI system on the market.