Why it matters

SWE agents are hot area (Devin, SWE-agent). Understanding shapes design.

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The architecture

Understand issue.

Explore codebase.

Plan fix.

Apply + verify.

Open PR.

SWE agent flowUnderstandissue + codePlan fixidentify changesApply + verifytest + PRSWE-bench Verified benchmark tracks agent progress; growing capabilities
SWE agent.
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How it works end to end

Repo exploration: grep + read.

Change planning: minimal diffs.

Testing: existing suite + new tests.

PR creation via API.