Cascade (JetBrains) Overview Windsurf’s Cascade brings the best of agentic coding to the JetBrains suite. To open Cascade, press Cmd/Ctrl+L or click the Cascade icon.

To get started with Workflows, click on the Customizations icon in the top right slider menu in Cascade, then navigate to the Workflows panel. Here, you can click on the + Workflow button to create a new …

In Cascade, you can easily switch between different models of your choosing. Depending on the model you select, each of your input prompts will consume a different number of prompt credits.

Cascade can read individual pages for things like documentation, blog posts, and GitHub files. The page reads happen entirely on your device within your network so if you’re using a VPN you shouldn’t …

Cascade has the ability to run terminal commands on its own with user permission. However, certain terminal commands can be accepted or rejected automatically through the Allow and Deny lists.

Overview Retrieve Cascade-specific analytics data including lines suggested/accepted, model usage, credit consumption, and tool usage statistics.

Using Codemaps with Cascade You can include Codemap information as context in your Cascade conversations by using @-mention to reference a Codemap.

JCEF is a browser needed to display Cascade. To fix this, go to Help > Find Actions > Choose Java Boot Runtime and pick a runtime with a bundled JCEF. If you already have JCEF bundled as part of …

A unique capability of Windsurf and Cascade is that it is aware of your real-time actions, removing the need to prompt with context on your prior actions.Simply instruct Cascade to “Continue”.

There are two mechanisms for this in Windsurf: Memories, which can be automatically generated by Cascade, and rules, which are manually defined by the user at both the local and global levels.