# Cognition — Windsurf Codemaps: Understand Code, Before You Vibe It

- Company: Cognition (cognition.com)
- Announced: 2025-11-04
- Category: capability-change
- Coverage: not counted
- Announcement: yes
- Group: announcements
- Source: https://cognition.com/blog/codemaps
- Record: https://forck.live/items/7686-windsurf-codemaps-understand-code-before-you-vibe-it
- Subject: Devin / SWE

Cognition released Codemaps, a feature that generates a shared understanding of a code system between humans and AI, enabling the AI to explain code paths accurately and consistently.

## Evidence

Verbatim from https://cognition.com/blog/codemaps:

> Codemaps is meant to offer a shared understanding of a system between humans and AI, enabling your AI to teach you about the code you are looking at quickly and elegantly.

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