The 100 line AI agent that solves GitHub issues or helps you in your command line. Radically simple, no huge configs, no giant monorepo—but scores >74% on SWE-bench verified!
mini-swe-agent is a small AI software-engineering agent that works on GitHub issues or tasks from the command line by operating in a software environment. It is designed for coding-agent research and for developers who want a simple agent that can use different language models and execution environments. The catalogue entries provide instructions and agents for using or extending it.
Latest release v2.4.6 · 23 Jul 2026
3 files for GitHub Copilot, Codex, OpenCode and Claude Code: mini-swe-agent copilot-instructions.md, mini-swe-agent AGENTS.md, mini-swe-agent CLAUDE.md — 1,358 tokens loaded in every session.
.github/copilot-instructions.md A 378 tok AGENTS.md A 975 tok CLAUDE.md A 5 tok These files are SWE-agent/mini-swe-agent's own configuration — they tell GitHub Copilot, Codex, OpenCode and Claude Code how to work on this repository, so they are not mods to install elsewhere. Copy one as a starting point and replace the parts that are about this project.