Open Source
SWE Agent
SWE-agent takes a GitHub issue and tries to automatically fix it, using your LM of choice. It can also be employed for offensive cybersecurity or competitive coding challenges.
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About SWE Agent
SWE-agent automates software engineering tasks by taking GitHub issues as input and attempting to generate fixes using a language model of your choice. It orchestrates the LM to interact with code repositories, run tests, and iterate toward solutions. Also applicable to cybersecurity tasks and competitive programming.
Best for
Teams wanting to automate routine bug fixes and explore LM-driven code generation without vendor lock-in
Use cases
- Automatically generate pull requests to fix GitHub issues
- Explore and patch security vulnerabilities in codebases
- Solve competitive programming challenges
Notes
19,387 stars on GitHub. Last updated 2026-05-31. Licensed MIT.
Pros
- Works with any LM backend, not locked to a single provider
- Demonstrated at scale (NeurIPS 2024 publication)
- Open source with 19k+ GitHub stars and active community
Cons
- Fix quality depends heavily on the LM chosen and issue complexity
- Requires proper repository setup and test infrastructure to validate solutions
- May generate false positives or incomplete fixes requiring human review
Key facts
What we have checked
- Latest version
- 1.1.0 (released 22 May 2025)
- GitHub stars
- 20,409
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Stars and usage
How SWE Agent is growing
19,387 to 20,409
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Sources
Where this comes from
- GitHubOfficial
- github api via nightly crawl, recovered from git history 20e874270887c1008f860ee0198e461a23c9e438Registry
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Changelog
What changed
Released 1.1.0
Released 1.0.1
Released 1.0.0
Released 0.7.0
Released 0.6.1
Released 0.6.0
Released 0.5.0
Released 0.4.0
Released 0.3.0
Released 0.2.0
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