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SWE-agent

Research coding agent from Princeton NLP that takes a GitHub issue and attempts to fix it autonomously, and also runs offensive-security and competitive-programming tasks. It was published at NeurIPS 2024, and its agent-computer-interface scaffold became a reference architecture for later agents.

Distributed by clone rather than by package; the PyPI project sees little traffic. Verified 2026-08-13 via the SWE-agent/SWE-agent repository and its LICENSE.

Openness

5 high confidence

5.0

license: MIT(OSI)
source: public
core-gated: ungated

Verified MIT OSI, full source public; academic project with no proprietary tier.

https://github.com/SWE-agent/SWE-agent/blob/main/LICENSE recorded 2026-08-13
MIT License text, Copyright (c) 2024 John Yang, Carlos E. Jimenez and co-authors
https://github.com/SWE-agent/SWE-agent recorded 2026-08-13
MIT license on the repo, full agent source public, 20.1k stars, 2.2k forks; no managed tier or enterprise directory

Adoption

3 low confidence

3.0

Primarily a research and benchmark agent: 20,055 stars across the one declared repo, which bands at >10K stars, level 3 on the stars scale. No download or user volume is published, so stars are the only signal available, and a star-based reading is capped at level 3 because a star is not a download. Adoption here is research-circle rather than production end-user scale.

https://github.com/SWE-agent/SWE-agent recorded 2026-08-13
20.1k stars, 2.2k forks; no download or user count published

Capability

3 medium confidence

3.0

Originator of the SWE-bench agent scaffold, and mid-tier on the current leaderboard at 43.2% SWE-bench Verified (SWE-agent v1 on Claude Sonnet 4.5), above Aider but below Cline and OpenHands. The figure comes from an aggregator leaderboard (awesomeagents.ai) rather than a primary publication.

https://awesomeagents.ai/leaderboards/swe-bench-coding-agent-leaderboard/ recorded 2026-08-13
row 9 - SWE-agent v1, Claude Sonnet 4.5, SWE-Bench Verified 43.2%, SWE-Bench Full 31.1%, open source, Princeton NLP ACI scaffold

Verified 2026-08-13