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xingyaoww/code-act

Official Repo for ICML 2024 paper "Executable Code Actions Elicit Better LLM Agents" by Xingyao Wang, Yangyi Chen, Lifan Yuan, Yizhe Zhang, Yunzhu Li, Hao Peng, Heng Ji. observed · 2026-08-28

github.com/xingyaoww/code-act · Python · MIT (permissive) observed · 2026-08-28

Health v2 · maintenance only

26/100

  • Activity 0
  • Release rhythm 35
  • Longevity 68

Flags: no_releases

How is this computed?

round(0.45*activity + 0.35*rhythm + 0.20*longevity); archived -> min(score, 10) — computed 2026-09-03. Adoption (stars, forks) is never an input.

  • gap_med: n/a
  • age_days: 963
  • days_rel: n/a
  • days_push: 832
  • n_releases_24m: 0

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Adoption not part of the score

1699 stars · 146 forks observed · 2026-08-28

What it is AI-extracted, prompt v1, taxonomy v1, 2026-08-30, confidence not recorded

CodeAct is a research framework and agent system that uses executable Python code as a unified action space for LLM agents, enabling multi-turn interaction with a code interpreter. It includes the CodeActInstruct instruction-tuning dataset and fine-tuned CodeActAgent models (e.g., Mistral-7b based) that can be served via Ollama, llama.cpp, or Kubernetes.

Use cases

  • build llm agents that execute python code as actions
  • fine-tune an open-source llm for agent tasks
  • run a self-hosted chat agent with code execution
  • evaluate llm agents on tool-use benchmarks
  • deploy an llm agent stack on kubernetes
  • run a code-executing agent locally on a laptop

When to choose

  • you want agents that act via executable code rather than JSON or text tool calls
  • you need an open-source, fine-tunable agent model with a Python interpreter sandbox
  • you want to reproduce or extend the CodeAct research (M3ToolEval, CodeActInstruct)

When to avoid

  • you need a production-hardened agent framework with broad integrations
  • you cannot safely sandbox arbitrary code execution
  • you only need simple prompt-based tool calling without code execution

Facets

framework · maturity active

agent-framework llm-inference llm-training rag artificial-intelligence large-language-models machine-learning python self-hosted code-act llm-agent executable-code-actions instruction-tuning python-interpreter research-paper icml-2024 ai-agents docker kubernetes

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