SWE-Agent

AI agent that autonomously fixes GitHub issues

⭐15,000
Coding AssistantsFree (open-source)
🌐 Visit Website📦 GitHub

About SWE-Agent

SWE-Agent is an AI agent built by Princeton that can autonomously resolve GitHub issues. It navigates codebases, understands context, makes edits, and submits pull requests — achieving strong results on the SWE-bench benchmark.

Features

✦Issue fixing
✦GitHub integration
✦Autonomous debugging
✦Code search
✦Multi-model

Pros & Cons

Pros

  • +Strong benchmark performance
  • +GitHub-native workflow
  • +Open-source and research-backed
  • +Multi-model support
  • +Active development

Cons

  • −Research-oriented (not polished)
  • −Requires significant compute
  • −Can be slow per issue
  • −Limited to GitHub workflow

Platforms

LinuxmacOS

Tags

#open-source#coding#github#autonomous

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