Open SourceHigh Impact·Sunday, March 15, 2026
New open-source coding agent 'Forge' beats Devin on SWE-bench
A new open-source AI coding agent achieves 54% on SWE-bench — surpassing Devin's published scores — and runs locally on a MacBook Pro.
What happened
Researchers released Forge, an open-source coding agent achieving 54% on SWE-bench Verified (Devin's last published score was 45.8%). Runs locally via CLI, uses any OpenAI-compatible API or local Ollama models, MIT license. Uses tree-search for exploring solution paths and has built-in GitHub PR creation.
Why it matters to you
personalizedWhy it matters to you
An open-source coding agent that runs locally, beats Devin, and works with any OpenAI-compatible API. MIT license means you can build products on top of it.
What to do about it
Install Forge today: `pip install forge-agent`. Point it at a medium-complexity bug in your codebase.
Signal for Developers:Act Now
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#forge#coding-agent#swe-bench#open-source#local
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