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SWE Agent
An AI agent that autonomously works on software engineering tasks across a codebase.
Definition
A software engineering agent, or SWE agent, is an AI agent that works on real coding tasks across a whole codebase — reading files, editing code, running tests, and fixing issues with limited human input. Such agents are measured on benchmarks like SWE-bench. ('SWE-agent' is also the name of one specific research system.)