Coding agents
mini-SWE-agent
Minimal readable SWE agent that serves as a baseline for identifying the irreducible agent loop.
Overview
Research summary
mini-SWE-agent is valuable as a baseline implementation: it keeps the environment interaction and model/tool loop small enough to understand end to end while still solving repository tasks. That makes it useful for separating capabilities that are fundamental to a coding agent from conveniences introduced by larger runtimes, orchestration layers and user interfaces.
Its small size makes architectural experiments easier to reason about: a change to observation formatting, command execution or retry behavior is not hidden beneath a large product stack. It can therefore act as a control implementation when evaluating more elaborate engines. If a capability can be demonstrated against mini-SWE-agent, it is easier to decide whether it belongs in the fundamental agent loop or in higher layers such as workflow orchestration, persistence, permissions, user interfaces or multi-agent coordination.
Repository summary
- Stars
- 7,521
- Open issues
- 24
- Last push
- 2026-09-07
- Commits, 90 days
- 23
- Repository activity
- Very active · 97/100
- Version
- 2.4.6
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Classification
Pricing & services
Paid services unknown
Whether the provider offers paid products or services has not been established.
Licence scope
Implementation
Recorded implementation details and interfaces for mini-SWE-agent.
Implementation details
Python
- Languages
- Python
- Repository type
- source
Recorded interfaces and capabilities
Licence scope
Repository
Repository snapshots, release information and recorded maintenance signals.
Repository snapshot
- Stars
- 7,521
- Open issues
- 24
- Last push
- 2026-09-07
- Commits, 90 days
- 23
- Repository activity
- Very active · 97/100
- Archived
- No
Repository activity is a snapshot, not a quality or popularity ranking. It combines recent-push freshness (50%), 90-day commits (30%) and issue pressure (20%).
Release information
- Current version
- 2.4.6
- Version source
- github-release
- Version scope
- SWE-agent/mini-swe-agent
- Version recorded
- 2026-09-14
- Latest release tag
- v2.4.6
- Release published
- 2026-07-23
- Default branch
- main
- Head commit
04d809ceab9df28f9adaed044884180159172930
Maintenance and provenance
- Catalogue snapshot
- 2026-10-06
- Repository metrics recorded
- 2026-09-14
- Stars source
- GitHub snapshot
- Last push source
- GitHub snapshot
- Repository metrics stale
- No
- Snapshot repository
- SWE-agent/mini-swe-agent
Documentation
Recorded references and research provenance for this entry.
Recorded sources 2
- https://github.com/SWE-agent/mini-swe-agent Project page · Linked repository · Research reference · Repository metric snapshot
- https://raw.githubusercontent.com/SWE-agent/mini-swe-agent/HEAD/README.md Research reference
Research metadata
- Research date
- 2026-09-14
- Catalogue snapshot
- 2026-10-06
- Repository metrics recorded
- 2026-09-14
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