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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!

19 mentions on Hacker News by 12 people: 5 stories, 14 comments · first 2025-07-25 · latest 2026-10-24

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    Mini-Swe-Agent
    story by Kinrany · 2026-10-24 · 1 comment
  2. I think they are referring to the file https://github.com/SWE-agent/mini-swe-agent/blob/main/src/mi... 190 lines with comments included so close enough Which is the actual agent? Everything else is just glue code to connect to different…
    comment by czhu12 · 2026-09-18 · in An empirical study of harness design for coding agents
  3. …harnesses consistently outperform extremely simple agents. But I'm also biased, because I wrote https://github.com/swe-agent/mini-swe-agent/ , which is probably the most minimal agent out there (it started as just 100 lines, all included),…
    comment by lieret · 2026-09-18 · in An empirical study of harness design for coding agents
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    Some critical issues with the SWE-bench-Pro environments
    story by snoopyswe · 2026-03-20 · 0 comments
  5. …+ lots of glue. > Gemini 3 Pro reaches 74% on SWE-bench verified with mini-swe-agent! [1] - https://github.com/SWE-agent/mini-swe-agent
    comment by NitpickLawyer · 2026-01-20 · in Scaling long-running autonomous coding
  6. I don't think so, model improvements far outweigh any harness or tooling. Look at https://github.com/SWE-agent/mini-swe-agent for proof
    comment by aszen · 2026-01-08 · in How to code Claude Code in 200 lines of code
  7. …team) have a 100 line of code agent that is now pretty popular in both academic and industry labs: https://github.com/SWE-agent/mini-swe-agent I think it's a great way to dive into the agent world
    comment by ofirpress · 2026-01-08 · in How to code Claude Code in 200 lines of code
  8. …heavily harnessed SotA. > Gemini 3 Pro reaches 74% on SWE-bench verified with mini-swe-agent! [1] - https://github.com/SWE-agent/mini-swe-agent
    comment by NitpickLawyer · 2025-12-22 · in Claude Code gets native LSP support
  9. …agent that's "terminal in a loop" and that started to get close to the engineered agents this year. https://github.com/SWE-agent/mini-swe-agent
    comment by NitpickLawyer · 2025-12-02 · in AI agents find $4.6M in blockchain smart contract exploits
  10. …with all the bells and whistles (and surpassed last year models w/ handcrafted harnesses). [1] - https://github.com/SWE-agent/mini-swe-agent
    comment by NitpickLawyer · 2025-10-14 · in Why the push for Agentic when models can barely follow a simple instruction?
  11. Personally I found the mini SWE-agent to be a very approachable introduction to building agents: https://github.com/SWE-agent/mini-swe-agent There are a number of free and cheap LLM options to experiment with. Google offers a decent free…
    comment by scottyeager · 2025-10-04 · in Jules, remote coding agent from Google Labs, announces API
  12. …SWE-bench team) have a 100 line of code agent that does pretty well, you can read the code here: https://github.com/SWE-agent/mini-swe-agent
    comment by ofirpress · 2025-08-28 · in Ask HN: How to Learn to Build Agentic AI Systems (Like Claude Code)
  13. Pretty sure you also need about 120 lines of prompting from default.yaml https://github.com/SWE-agent/mini-swe-agent/blob/7e125e5dd49...
    comment by sireat · 2025-08-24 · in How to build a coding agent
  14. OK that really is pretty simple, thanks for sharing. The whole thing runs on these prompts: https://github.com/SWE-agent/mini-swe-agent/blob/7e125e5dd49... Your task: {{task}}. Please reply with a single shell command in triple backticks.…
    comment by simonw · 2025-08-24 · in How to build a coding agent
  15. …built an agent in ~100 lines of code that does pretty well on SWE-bench, you might enjoy it too: https://github.com/SWE-agent/mini-swe-agent
    comment by ofirpress · 2025-08-24 · in How to build a coding agent
  16. …is the closest thing to measuring the inherent ability of the model vs. the scaffolding. https://github.com/SWE-agent/mini-swe-agent
    comment by whymauri · 2025-08-12 · in Qodo CLI agent scores 71.2% on SWE-bench Verified
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    Show HN: New SWE-bench leaderboard compares LMs without fancy agent scaffolds
    story by lieret · 2025-07-31 · 0 comments
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    Mini-Swe-Agent
    story by handfuloflight · 2025-07-26 · 0 comments
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    Show HN: Mini-swe-agent achieves 65% on SWE-bench in 100 lines of python
    story by lieret · 2025-07-25 · 3 comments