SWE-agent
Research-grade AI coding agent
Category
AI Coding Agents
Platforms
cli
Pricing
$0 — $0
Open Source
Yes
LLMs Used
Claude, GPT-4
IDE Support
Terminal
What is SWE-agent?
SWE-agent by Princeton NLP is an open-source AI software engineering agent that achieves state-of-the-art performance on the SWE-bench benchmark. Primarily a research project.
Who is it for? Developers and teams who want to delegate multi-step coding tasks to an autonomous agent.
Key Features
Available on
Our Verdict
Important research project but not production-ready for daily use.
Pros & Cons
Pros
- + State-of-the-art benchmark scores
- + Open source
- + Research-backed
Cons
- - Research-focused, not production tool
- - Complex setup
- - Python-centric
Pricing
Free
$0
- Full platform
- SWE-bench compatible
Supported Languages & IDEs
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About Princeton NLP
Company Princeton NLP
Founded 2024
Repository
github.com/princeton-nlp/SWE-agent — 14.0k stars
Status Active
Data updated 2025-02-15