Devon: An open-source pair programmer

demo.mp4

Installation

Prerequisites

1. node.js and npm
2. pipx, if you don't have this go here
3. API Key (just one is required)
   • Anthropic
   • OpenAI
   • Groq (not released in package yet, run locally)

We're currently working on supporting Windows! (Let us know if you can help)

Installation commands

To install, simply run:

curl -sSL https://raw.githubusercontent.com/entropy-research/Devon/main/install.sh | bash

Or to install using pipx + npm:

pipx install devon_agent
npm install -g devon-tui 

This installs the Python backend, and the cli command to run the tool

Thats it! Happy building :)

Running the agent

Navigate to your project folder and open the terminal.

Set your Anthropic API or OpenAI API key as an environment variable:

export ANTHROPIC_API_KEY=sk-xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx

#OR

export OPENAI_API_KEY=sk-xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx

#OR

export GROQ_API_KEY=sk-xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx

Then to run, the command is:

devon

It's as easy as that.

Note

Don't worry, the agent will be able to only access files and folders in the directory you started it from. You can also correct it while it's performing actions.

To run in debug mode, the command is:

devon --debug

For a list of all commands available:

devon --help

Features

• Multi-file editing
• Codebase exploration
• Config writing
• Test writing
• Bug fixing
• Architecture exploration

Limitations

• Minimal functionality for non-Python languages
• Sometimes have to specify the file where you want the change to happen

Progress

This project is still super early and we would love your help to make it great!

Current goals

• Multi-model support
  • Claude 3 Opus
  • GPT4-o
  • Groq llama3-70b
  • Ollama llama3-70b + 7b
• Launch plugin system for tool and agent builders
• Create self-hostable Electron app
• Set SOTA on SWE-bench Lite

View our current thoughts on next steps here

Star history

Past milestones

• May 19, 2024 - GPT4o support + better interface support v0.1.7
• May 10, 2024 - Complete interactive agent v0.1.0
• May 10, 2024 - Add steerability features
• May 8, 2024 - Beat AutoCodeRover on SWE-Bench Lite
• Mid April, 2024 - Add repo level code search tooling
• April 2, 2024 - Begin development of v0.1.0 interactive agent
• March 17, 2024 - Launch non-interactive agent v0.0.1

Current development priorities

1. Improve context gathering and code indexing abilities ex:
   • Adding memory modules
   • Improved code indexing
2. Add alternative models and agents to:
   • a) Reduce end user cost and
   • b) Reduce end user latency
3. Introduce Electron app and new UI

How can I contribute?

Devon and the entropy-research org are community-driven, and we welcome contributions from everyone! From tackling issues to building features to creating datasets, there are many ways to get involved:

• Core functionality: Help us develop the core agents, user experience, tool integrations, plugins, etc.
• Research: Help us research agent performance (including benchmarks!), build data pipelines, and finetune models.
• Feedback and Testing: Use Devon, report bugs, suggest features, or provide feedback on usability.

For details, please check CONTRIBUTING.md.

If you would like to contribute to the project, please join the discord: Discord

Feedback

We would love feedback! Feel free to drop us a note on our Discord in the #feedback channel, or create issues!

We collect basic event type (i.e. "tool call") and failure telemetry to solve bugs and improve the user experience, but if you want to reach out, we would love to hear from you!

To disable telemetry, set the environment variable DEVON_TELEMETRY_DISABLED to true

export DEVON_TELEMETRY_DISABLED=true

Community

Join our Discord server and say hi! Discord

License

Distributed under the Apache 2.0 License. See LICENSE for more information.