# langchain-ai/open-swe

An Open-Source Asynchronous Coding Agent

Repository: https://github.com/langchain-ai/open-swe
Canonical: https://ross.abutalabs.com/products/open-swe
Homepage: https://www.langchain.com/blog/open-swe-an-open-source-framework-for-internal-coding-agents
Language: Python
License: MIT
License Family: permissive
Topics: agent, ai, anthropic, claudecode, llm, openai, agents, llms
Last push: 2026-08-26T23:19:30+00:00

## Health v2 (maintenance only)
Score: 63/100 (v2, computed 2026-09-03T02:20:16.233290+00:00)
- activity 99, release rhythm 35, longevity 33
- inputs: {"age_days": 469, "days_push": 7, "days_rel": null, "gap_med": null, "n_releases_24m": 0}
- flags: no_releases
- formula: round(0.45*activity + 0.35*rhythm + 0.20*longevity); archived -> min(score, 10)

## Adoption (not part of the score)
Stars 10620, forks 1243 (observed 2026-08-28T04:10:42.563180+00:00)

## What it is
Open SWE is an open-source framework from LangChain for building an organization's internal asynchronous coding agent, built on LangGraph and Deep Agents. It provides cloud sandboxes, Slack and Linear invocation, subagent orchestration, and automatic PR creation, ready to customize for your own codebase and workflows.

## Use cases
- build an internal coding agent for my engineering org
- run an AI agent that fixes GitHub issues and opens pull requests
- invoke a coding agent from Slack or Linear
- run coding tasks in isolated cloud sandboxes
- orchestrate subagents for long-horizon coding tasks
- self-host an open-source alternative to Claude Code
- customize an agent harness for my codebase and workflows

## When to choose
- You want to build a customizable internal coding agent following the patterns of Stripe's Minions, Ramp's Inspect, or Coinbase's Cloudbot
- You need Slack/Linear/GitHub integrations, cloud sandboxes, and automatic PR creation out of the box
- You want an upgrade path by composing on the Deep Agents framework rather than forking an agent
- You need asynchronous, long-running agent tasks with minimal human oversight

## When to avoid
- You just want a ready-to-use terminal coding assistant with no customization needs
- You need a simple synchronous code-completion tool rather than an autonomous agent framework
- You cannot run cloud sandboxes or don't want agent infrastructure to maintain
- You need a lightweight agent without LangGraph/Deep Agents dependencies

## Facets
- artifact type: framework
- maturity: active
- function: agent-framework, llm-inference, workflow-automation, developer-tools, cli
- domain: large-language-models, developer-tools, version-control
- platform: python, cloud, self-hosted, cross-platform
- tags: coding-agent, langgraph, deep-agents, slack-integration, linear-integration, github-prs, cloud-sandboxes, subagent-orchestration, internal-coding-agent, ai-agents, automation, docker

## Member repositories
- langchain-ai/open-swe (main) score 63

## Provenance
- Observed fields: from GitHub, fetched 2026-08-28T04:10:42.563180+00:00.
- Health v2: computed from the inputs above; adoption is never an input.
- Inferred fields (summary, facets, guidance): AI-extracted, prompt v1, taxonomy v1, on 2026-08-29T17:18:28.097246+00:00, confidence not recorded.
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  - site_page: https://www.langchain.com/about (fetched 2026-08-29T08:17:35.953111+00:00, sha b85a33f40436)
  - site_page: https://docs.langchain.com/oss/python/deepagents/overview (fetched 2026-08-29T08:17:35.957550+00:00, sha 8b276d9fe711)
  - site_page: https://docs.langchain.com/ (fetched 2026-08-29T08:17:35.947933+00:00, sha e6cbe67a291c)
  - site_page: https://www.langchain.com/pricing (fetched 2026-08-29T08:17:35.955391+00:00, sha 78cc9bf12a61)
  - site_page: https://changelog.langchain.com/ (fetched 2026-08-29T08:17:35.960168+00:00, sha 3c5994039295)
- Data as of 2026-08-30T08:39:29.467469+00:00.