Direct answer
What is SWE-agent?
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Best for
Good fit
- Engineering and research teams evaluating issue-to-patch coding agents
- Teams that value repository-level tasks provide a concrete outcome evaluation surface
- Source-backed technical evaluation before production adoption
Not for
- Non-technical teams seeking a general workplace assistant
- Patch quality, sandboxing, test coverage, and review remain essential
- Procurement decisions made without a workload-specific pilot
Pricing & decision signals
Pricing notes
The public repository can be evaluated without a software license fee. Hosted services, model usage, infrastructure, support, and enterprise features may add cost; verify current terms with the project or vendor.
- Category
- AI Coding
- Confidence
- High
- Last reviewed
- Jun 29, 2026
- Source type
- GitHub
- License
- MIT
Pros & cons
Pros
- Repository-level tasks provide a concrete outcome evaluation surface
- Public repository supports code-level review
- MIT license metadata is recorded
Cons
- Patch quality, sandboxing, test coverage, and review remain essential
- Capabilities and project activity can change after this review
- Production adoption requires explicit evaluation and ownership
Features & use cases
Features
- Repository-level tasks provide a concrete outcome evaluation surface
- Code generation and review
- Public GitHub repository with 19,647 stars
- MIT license metadata available
Use cases
- Engineering and research teams evaluating issue-to-patch coding agents
- Review code changes
- Evaluate SWE-agent as an open-source option before adopting it
- Debug implementation issues
Source & verification
Sources, verification & confidence
Verification notes
- Primary source reviewed: https://github.com/SWE-agent/SWE-agent
- Primary source reviewed: https://swe-agent.com/
- Repository license recorded: MIT
- Repository activity checked: 2026-06-29T21:39:06Z
- Editorial review date: 2026-07-11
- Confidence
- High
- Evidence level
- Source-verified
- Source type
- GitHub
- Last reviewed
- Jun 29, 2026
- Published
- Jun 27, 2026
- Record updated
- Jun 27, 2026
- Repository update
- Aug 17, 2026
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