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refact

AI Agent that handles engineering tasks end-to-end: integrates with developers’ tools, plans, executes, and iterates until it achieves a successful result.

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0Explicit recommenders
3.5KGitHub stars
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AI Agent that handles engineering tasks end-to-end: integrates with developers’ tools, plans, executes, and iterates until it achieves a successful result.

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This week on Hacker News

Nov 7–Nov 14 UTC · Direct repository links and separately labeled related project stories. Indexed through 11/14/2026, 12:54:37 PM UTC.

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Mentions over time

HN mentions by month14 dated mentions

Observed mentions: 2023-07-27 15:58:06 UTC to 2025-08-12 22:03:45 UTC.

02462023-07-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2023-08-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 2 mentions; 2 submissions, 0 commentsJul 20232023-08-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2023-09-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 6 mentions; 0 submissions, 6 comments2023-09-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2023-10-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 1 mentions; 0 submissions, 1 comments2023-10-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2023-11-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 2 mentions; 0 submissions, 2 comments2023-11-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2023-12-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 1 mentions; 1 submissions, 0 comments2023-12-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2024-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2024-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2024-02-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2024-02-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2024-03-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2024-03-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2024-04-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2024-04-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2024-05-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2024-05-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2024-06-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2024-06-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2024-07-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2024-07-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2024-08-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 commentsJul 20242024-08-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2024-09-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2024-09-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2024-10-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2024-10-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2024-11-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2024-11-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2024-12-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2024-12-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2025-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2025-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2025-02-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2025-02-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2025-03-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2025-03-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2025-04-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2025-04-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2025-05-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2025-05-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2025-06-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 1 mentions; 0 submissions, 1 comments2025-06-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2025-07-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2025-07-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2025-08-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2025-08-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2025-09-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 1 mentions; 0 submissions, 1 commentsAug 2025

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Jul 20232023-07-01 00:00:00 UTC2023-08-01 00:00:00 UTC220
Aug 20232023-08-01 00:00:00 UTC2023-09-01 00:00:00 UTC606
Sep 20232023-09-01 00:00:00 UTC2023-10-01 00:00:00 UTC101
Oct 20232023-10-01 00:00:00 UTC2023-11-01 00:00:00 UTC202
Nov 20232023-11-01 00:00:00 UTC2023-12-01 00:00:00 UTC110
Dec 20232023-12-01 00:00:00 UTC2024-01-01 00:00:00 UTC000
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May 20252025-05-01 00:00:00 UTC2025-06-01 00:00:00 UTC101
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Aug 20252025-08-01 00:00:00 UTC2025-09-01 00:00:00 UTC101

What Hacker News says

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Open-source Refact.ai achieves #1 on SWE-bench Lite with a 59.7% score. Our approach: fully autonomous Agent, no manual intervention needed. How we did this: • Prompt strategy: https://github.com/smallcloudai/refact/blob/swe-boosted-prom... • Claude 3.7 Sonnet as orchestrator • deep_analysis() tool (powered by o4-mini) for reasoning • Tool suite for repository exploration, code modification, and testing. Used dynamically based on task needs • One correct solution through iteration! Autonomy = our core strength. Refact.ai Agent completes the entire dev workflow independently: plans, executes, tests, self-corrects, and delivers a production-ready result. For each task, it made one multi-step run to generate a single correct solution, creating custom strategies rather than following rigid scripts. You can read tech details on our SWE-bench
Read the rest
approach: https://refact.ai/blog/2025/sota-on-swe-bench-lite-open-sour... Your questions are welcome! Also, welcome to try Refact.ai Agent in VS Code and Jet Brains: https://linktr.ee/refactai
In Open-Source Refact.ai Agent is #1 on SWE-bench Lite With a 59.7% Score
That is not what I consider "local", since that uses cloud inference by default (and last I checked, they provided no useful guidance for changing that). I don’t consider cloud inference to count as getting it working “locally” as requested by the comment above yours. Refact worked nicely and worked locally when I tried it a few weeks ago, but the challenge with any new model is making it be supported by the existing software: https://github.com/smallcloudai/refact/
In Replit's new AI Model now available on Hugging Face
We’ve finished training a new code model Refact LLM which took us about a month. The main use-case is for blazing-fast code completion with fill-in-the-middle, additionally, the model could reply to chat prompts. It has much better performance than all of the code models of similar size, and almost reaches the same HumanEval as Starcoder being 10x smaller in size. With the small size, it can work with most modern GPUs requiring just 3GB Ram. You can try self-hosting it in Refact https://github.com/smallcloudai/refact/ and get a local fast copilot alternative with decent suggestions. Weights and model card https://huggingface.co/smallcloudai/Refact-1_6B-fim. We would love to hear your feedback!
In Refact Code LLM: 1.6B LLM for code that reaches 32% HumanEval

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