SWE-agent Guide
SWE-agent (from Princeton NLP) is a coding agent designed to fix real GitHub issues. It runs in a containerized agent-computer interface with a custom shell tailored for software engineering tasks. Strong benchmark performance on SWE-bench. Sandboxed by design.
When to use SWE-agent
SWE-agent (from Princeton NLP) is a coding agent designed to fix real GitHub issues. It runs in a containerized agent-computer interface with a custom shell tailored for software engineering tasks. Strong benchmark performance on SWE-bench. Sandboxed by design.
How to use SWE-agent
SWE-agent is a single agent agent built on the Custom framework. Set it up from the source repository, configure your model credentials, and invoke it for tasks that match its description. Review the safety profile below before running it against production data or systems.
Safety profile
Autonomy
Semi-autonomous
Sandbox-aware
Yes
Network access
Restricted
Filesystem access
Restricted write