---
title: Team Settings
description: Configure team-wide settings to control your users' Devin CLI usage
icon: "users"
---

## Overview

Team-wide settings allow enterprise admins to control Devin CLI usage across their organization.

- **Devin Enterprise admins** can manage these settings in the customer-facing Devin dashboard under **Settings → Enterprise → Windsurf** (`app.devin.ai/org/{orgName}/settings/windsurf`). This is self-service for admins with access to enterprise settings.
- **Windsurf Enterprise admins** can manage these settings in the Windsurf dashboard at [https://windsurf.com/team/cli-settings](https://windsurf.com/team/cli-settings).

<Warning>
Only the Devin CLI-specific settings on these pages apply to Devin CLI. General [Windsurf Team Settings](https://windsurf.com/team/settings) apply to Windsurf and do not necessarily apply to Devin CLI unless also listed on the Devin CLI settings page.
</Warning>

## Available Settings

### Models

Control which models your users can access through Devin CLI. You can:

- **Whitelist specific models** — Restrict users to a curated list of approved models
- **Allow all models** — Give users access to all available models

Click **Configure** to manage model access for each category.

#### Default model

You can also pin a **team-wide default model** that Devin CLI will use for new sessions. This is the same setting Windsurf uses for its default model, so configuring it once applies to both surfaces.

- If no team default is set, Devin CLI uses its built-in default model.
- If the pinned default is not present in the **allowed models** list above, Devin CLI falls back to the built-in default — the allowlist always takes precedence.
- Individual users can still switch models during a session; this setting only controls the starting model for new sessions.

Enterprise admins can configure the default model from the [Windsurf Team Settings](https://windsurf.com/team/settings) page, the [Devin CLI Settings](https://windsurf.com/team/cli-settings) page, or the customer-facing Devin Enterprise settings page at `app.devin.ai/org/{orgName}/settings/windsurf`.

### Enable Web Search

Allow the Devin CLI agent to perform web searches on the open Internet. This does not affect the agent's ability to read specific URLs, which is performed locally on the user's machine. This tool is **disabled by default** for enterprise teams.

### MCP Servers

Control whether your users can use MCP (Model Context Protocol) tools.

- **Toggle on/off** — Enable or disable MCP server usage entirely
- **Whitelisted MCP Servers** — Specify which MCP servers users are allowed to connect to. If no servers are added, all servers are whitelisted by default. Click **Add Server** to restrict access to specific servers.

### Terminal Permissions

Configure team-enforced permission rules for Devin CLI usage. These rules have the **highest precedence** and cannot be overridden by individual users' local or project configurations.

Click **Configure** to open the permissions editor. The configuration requires a JSON object with three fields:

```json
{
  "deny": [
    "exec"
  ],
  "ask": [],
  "allow": [
    "Read(~/my-repository/**)"
  ]
}
```

- **`deny`** — Actions that are blocked entirely (takes highest priority)
- **`ask`** — Actions that always prompt the user for approval
- **`allow`** — Actions that are automatically approved without prompting

Permissions can be **scope-based** or **tool-based**:

| Type | Format | Example |
|------|--------|---------|
| File read | `Read(/path)` | `Read(~/sensitive/**)` |
| File write | `Write(/path)` | `Write(.env*)` |
| Command execution | `Exec(cmd)` | `Exec(rm)`, `Exec(sudo)` |
| HTTP fetch | `Fetch(url)` | `Fetch(https://internal.api/*)` |
| Tool-based | Tool name | `read`, `edit`, `exec` |

<Tip>
Use team-enforced deny rules to prevent actions across your entire organization, such as blocking access to sensitive directories or dangerous commands like `rm -rf` or `sudo`.
</Tip>

For detailed information on permission syntax, glob patterns, and configuration examples, see the [Permissions documentation](/cli/reference/permissions).

### Sandbox Enforcement

Control sandbox behavior for your organization. These settings enforce OS-level isolation on all CLI sessions, restricting file system access and network traffic.

#### Sandbox Enforcement Mode

Set the enforcement level for the `--sandbox` flag across your organization:

- **Optional** (default) — Users choose whether to pass `--sandbox`. No enforcement.
- **Required** — The `--sandbox` flag is forced on for all users, even if they don't pass it on the command line. All CLI sessions run with OS-level file system sandboxing that enforces Read/Write permission scopes.

A future **Strict** mode may lock down sandbox configuration entirely, preventing users from modifying sandbox settings.

When sandbox is active:
- **Writable paths** are derived from granted `Write(...)` permission scopes plus the workspace directory
- **Readable paths** are derived from granted `Read(...)` scopes (platform defaults like `/usr/bin` are always readable)
- Scopes granted mid-session dynamically expand the sandbox for subsequent commands

<Warning>
If sandbox resolution fails (e.g., the sandboxing tools are unavailable on the user's platform), the CLI will **refuse to start** rather than running unsandboxed. This fail-closed behavior applies whether sandbox was enabled via this team setting or by the user passing `--sandbox` directly, ensuring the security intent is never silently bypassed.

When enterprise-enforced, users will see an error directing them to contact their team administrator. When user-initiated, the error suggests running without `--sandbox` to proceed without OS-level isolation.

Common causes of sandbox resolution failure:
- **Windows**: OS-level sandboxing is not currently supported on Windows. Sessions on Windows will hard-fail when `--sandbox` is passed or when sandbox enforcement is **Required**, including when the CLI runs as an ACP server inside an IDE (e.g., Devin Desktop).
- **Linux**: Sandboxing requires `bubblewrap` (`bwrap`) and `socat` to be installed. Sessions hard-fail with installation instructions when these are missing.
- **Permission scope errors**: Invalid paths in permission scopes that can't be resolved.

Ensure all target machines are provisioned before setting sandbox enforcement mode to **Required** across your organization. If any users are on Windows, they will be unable to run the CLI until OS-level sandboxing is supported on Windows or the policy is relaxed to **Optional**.
</Warning>

#### Domain Filtering

Configure organization-wide domain allowlists and denylists for sandbox network filtering.

- **Domain allowlist** — When set, **only** the domains in this list are reachable through the sandbox network proxy. This list is **authoritative**: it completely replaces any user-configured `allowed_domains` in their local [sandbox config](/cli/reference/configuration/config-file#sandbox). Users cannot add additional domains to bypass admin restrictions.

- **Domain denylist** — Domains that are always blocked. Enterprise denied domains are **additive**: they are merged with the user's local `denied_domains`, making the combined list more restrictive.

See the [sandbox config reference](/cli/reference/configuration/config-file#sandbox) for domain pattern syntax (e.g., `*.example.com`, `**.example.com`).

**How enterprise and user domain lists interact:**

| Scenario | Enterprise config | User config | Effective result |
|----------|------------------|-------------|-----------------|
| Admin sets allowlist | `allowed_domains: ["github.com"]` | `allowed_domains: ["npmjs.org"]` | Only `github.com` is allowed (enterprise replaces user list) |
| Admin sets denylist | `denied_domains: ["evil.com"]` | `denied_domains: ["risky.io"]` | Both `evil.com` and `risky.io` are blocked (merged) |
| No admin allowlist | `allowed_domains: []` | `allowed_domains: ["github.com"]` | User's allowlist is used |

<Note>
Because the user's local `denied_domains` are preserved and merged additively, a user could deny a domain that appears in the enterprise allowlist. This is intentional: the combined effect is always more restrictive, never less. If this causes access issues, the user should remove the conflicting entry from their local config.
</Note>

<Tip>
Combine sandbox enforcement with team permission deny rules (e.g., `Write(/etc)`) to prevent agents from modifying sensitive directories at both the permission and OS level. Permission deny rules prevent the agent from even attempting the action, while the sandbox provides a second layer of OS-level enforcement.
</Tip>

### Show "Install Devin CLI" in the Devin Desktop Command Palette

Devin CLI is bundled with Devin Desktop but requires explicit activation by an admin. Toggle this setting **on** to allow your users to install Devin CLI directly from the Devin Desktop Command Palette.

Once enabled, users can open the Command Palette (<code>Cmd+Shift+P</code> on macOS or <code>Ctrl+Shift+P</code> on Windows/Linux) and run **Install Devin CLI** to add the `devin` binary to their PATH.

<Note>
This setting is available on **Legacy Windsurf Enterprise** and **Devin Enterprise** plans and is **off by default**.
</Note>

## Further Reading

To understand how to configure Devin CLI further, see the [Configuration documentation](/cli/reference/configuration/config-file).
