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bytedance/trae-agent

Trae Agent is an LLM-based agent for general purpose software engineering tasks. observed · 2026-10-09

github.com/bytedance/trae-agent · homepage · Python · MIT (permissive) observed · 2026-10-09

Health v2 · maintenance only

45/100

  • Activity 58
  • Release rhythm 35
  • Longevity 35

Flags: no_releases

How is this computed?

round(0.45*activity + 0.35*rhythm + 0.20*longevity); archived -> min(score, 10) — computed 2026-10-21. Adoption (stars, forks) is never an input.

  • gap_med: n/a
  • age_days: 494
  • days_rel: n/a
  • days_push: 257
  • n_releases_24m: 0

Full methodology

Adoption not part of the score

12135 stars · 1357 forks observed · 2026-10-09

What it is AI-extracted, prompt v1, taxonomy v1, 2026-08-29, confidence not recorded

Trae Agent is an LLM-based CLI agent from ByteDance for general-purpose software engineering tasks, executing workflows via tools like file editing and bash execution across multiple LLM providers. Its transparent, modular architecture is designed to be research-friendly for studying and extending AI agent capabilities.

Use cases

  • automate bug fixes from natural language instructions
  • run an AI coding agent from the terminal
  • compare LLM providers for software engineering tasks
  • research agent architectures and run ablation studies
  • record and analyze agent trajectories for debugging
  • refactor codebases with an interactive AI assistant

When to choose

  • you need a CLI coding agent with multi-LLM provider support
  • you want a transparent, modifiable agent framework for research
  • you need trajectory logging of agent actions for analysis

When to avoid

  • you need a fully polished commercial AI IDE experience
  • you want a GUI-based coding assistant
  • you cannot provide API keys for an LLM provider

Facets

cli-tool · maturity active

agent-framework llm-inference cli developer-tools large-language-models developer-tools python cli cross-platform coding-agent software-engineering multi-llm trajectory-recording research-friendly ai-agents command-line

2 sources

Member repositories

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bytedance/trae-agentmain45

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