IDE extension official
Risk level
low
20/100

Windsurf Plugin ↗

Windsurf Plugin is an officially published IDE extension from Cognition. Anomity scores its risk at 20 out of 100 (low).

filesystem:read filesystem:write network:outbound

Analysis summary

Windsurf Plugin is an officially published IDE extension from Cognition. Anomity scores its risk at 20 out of 100 (low).

The Windsurf Plugin — the successor to the Codeium extension, following Cognition's acquisition — brings Windsurf's completion and chat into VS Code, JetBrains, Vim, and other editors for developers who do not want to switch to the standalone Windsurf editor.

It reads the workspace for context, writes accepted suggestions, and calls the hosted model service, so it declares filesystem read and write with outbound network access. Its long-standing appeal is a capable free tier, which is worth pairing with the usual question about hosted assistants: what is retained, and is code from this repository allowed to leave it? The answer belongs in a policy rather than in each developer's settings.

Why this entry scored 20 out of 100

This profile starts at the catalog's neutral base of 50. Because the entry is officially published, trust adjusts the score by -40. Declared high-risk capabilities add +10 (capped at +30). It matches no dangerous capability combinations. The clamped result is 20, placing it in the low band.

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Findings

  • Published by the vendor Trust offset
    Contribution to score: -40
  • 1 high-risk capability: filesystem:write High
    Contribution to score: +10

Capabilities

Every capability the entry declares, with the security implication of each.

  • filesystem:read Filesystem read
    Can read files on the host system. Used for context, indexing, or analysis.
  • filesystem:write Filesystem write
    Can create, edit, or delete files on the host system. High-impact capability — anything from helpful edits to planting persistence.
  • network:outbound Outbound network
    Can make outbound network requests. Required for hosted model providers and remote APIs; also the path for data exfiltration if combined with read access.