SWE-agent

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Takes GitHub issues and autonomously fixes them; also applicable to cybersecurity and competitive coding

issue-resolution swe-bench coding-agent research github-issues
Ready-to-Use Self-Hosted Stable Maintained

Key Features

Multi-Agent
Single Agent
Human-in-the-Loop
Streaming
Async Support
Type Safe
Short-Term Memory
Long-Term Memory
Shared Memory
Plugin System
Custom Tools
MCP Protocol
A2A Protocol
Code Execution
Web Browsing
File System Access
Sandboxing
Guardrails
Structured Output
DAG Workflows
Visual Builder
CLI
API Server
Self-Hosted
Cloud Hosted

Community Feedback

Strengths

  • State-of-the-art on SWE-bench
  • Academically rigorous (NeurIPS 2024)
  • Used by major companies (Meta, NVIDIA, IBM)
  • Subagent spawning for multi-agent
  • mini-SWE-agent achieves 74%+ in just 100 lines

Weaknesses

  • Primarily research-oriented
  • Requires Docker
  • Focused narrowly on issue resolution
  • Expensive LLM API calls

SWE-agent Details

OrganizationPrinceton NLP / Stanford
Organization TypeResearch-lab
CategoryReady-to-Use
SubcategoryCode generation
DeploymentSelf-Hosted
Primary LanguagePython
RuntimePython 3.10+
LicenseMIT
Commercial UseUnrestricted
Install Commandpip install sweagent
GitHub Stars18,839
GitHub Forks2,031
Release CadenceMonthly
MaturityStable
Pricing ModelFree
Free TierFully free and open-source (MIT)
Self-Hosted FreeYes
Cost Modelfree + LLM costs
Community SizeLarge (19k stars)
Community ActivityActive
SentimentPositive
GPU RequiredNo
ConfidenceHigh
Research Date2026-03-24
LLM ProvidersClaude, GPT-4, any LLM
API Keys RequiredLLM provider API key

Use Cases

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When to Use

Best for: Automated GitHub issue resolution and SWE-bench research

Avoid when: Need interactive coding assistance or general-purpose agent

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