😽News | 🐈Setup | 🙀Localization | 😼Repair | 🧶Comparison | 🐈‍⬛Artifacts | 📝Citation | 😻Acknowledgement

• July 1st, 2024: We just released OpenAutoCoder-Agentless 1.0! Agentless currently is the best open-source approach on SWE-bench lite with 82 fixes (27.3%) and costing on average $0.34 per issue.

Agentless is an agentless approach to automatically solve software development problems. To solve each issue, Agentless follows a simple two phase process: localization and repair.

• 🙀 Localization: Agentless employs a hierarchical process to first localize the fault to specific files, then to relevant classes or functions, and finally to fine-grained edit locations
• 😼 Repair : Agentless takes the edit locations and generates multiple candidate patches in a simple diff format, performs test filtering, and re-ranks all remaining patches to selects one to submit

First create the environment

git clone https://github.com/OpenAutoCoder/Agentless.git
cd Agentless

conda create -n agentless python=3.11 
conda activate agentless
pip install -r requirements.txt
export PYTHONPATH=$PYTHONPATH:$(pwd)

# for contribution, please install the pre-commit hook.
pre-commit install  # this allows a more standardized code style

Then export your OpenAI API key

export OPENAI_API_KEY={key_here}

Now you are ready to run Agentless on the problems in SWE-bench! We now go through a step-by-step example of how to run Agentless.

In localization, the goal is find the locations in source code where we need to edit to fix the issues. Agentless uses a 3-stage localization step to first localize to specific files, then to relevant code elements, and finally to fine-grained edit locations.

Run the following command to generate the edit locations:

mkdir results # where we will save our results
python agentless/fl/localize.py --file_level --related_level --fine_grain_line_level \
                                --output_folder results/location --top_n 3 \
                                --compress \
                                --context_window=10 

This will save all the localized locations in results/location/loc_outputs.jsonl with the logs saved in results/location/localize.log

mkdir results # where we will save our results
python agentless/fl/localize.py --file_level --output_folder results/file_level

python agentless/fl/localize.py --related_level \
                                --output_folder results/related_level \
                                --start_file results/file_level/loc_outputs.jsonl \
                                --top_n 3 --compress

python agentless/fl/localize.py --fine_grain_line_level \
                                --output_folder results/edit_location \
                                --start_file results/related_level/loc_outputs.jsonl \
                                --top_n 3 --context_window=10 

python agentless/fl/localize.py --fine_grain_line_level \
                                --output_folder results/edit_location_samples \
                                --start_file results/related_level/loc_outputs.jsonl \
                                --top_n 3 --context_window=10 --temperature 0.8 \
                                --num_samples 4

python agentless/fl/localize.py --merge \
                                --output_folder results/edit_location_samples_merged \
                                --start_file results/edit_location_samples/loc_outputs.jsonl \
                                --num_samples 4

Using the edit locations (i.e., found_edit_locs) from before, we now perform repair.

Agentless generates multiple patches per issue (controllable via parameters) and then perform majority voting to select the final patch for submission

Run the following command to generate the patches:

python agentless/repair/repair.py --loc_file results/location/loc_outputs.jsonl \
                                  --output_folder results/repair \
                                  --loc_interval --top_n=3 --context_window=10 \
                                  --max_samples 10  --cot --diff_format \
                                  --gen_and_process 

This command generates 10 samples (1 greedy and 9 via temperature sampling) as defined --max_samples 10. The --context_window indicates the amount of code lines before and after each localized edit location we provide to the model for repair. The repair results is saved in results/repair/output.jsonl, which contains the raw output of each sample as well as the any trajectory information (e.g., number of tokens). The complete logs are also saved in results/repair/repair.log

Finally, we perform majority voting to select the final patch to solve each issue. Run the following command:

python agentless/repair/rerank.py --patch_folder results/repair --num_samples 10 --deduplicate --plausible

In this case, we use --num_samples 10 to pick from the 10 samples we generated previously, --deduplicate to apply normalization to each patch for better voting, and --plausible to select patches that can pass the previous regression tests (warning: this feature is not yet implemented)

This command will produced the all_preds.jsonl that contains the final selected patch for each instance_id which you can then directly use your favorite way of testing SWE-bench for evaluation!

Below shows the comparison graph between Agentless and the best open-source agent-based approaches on SWE-bench lite

You can download the complete artifacts of Agentless in our v0.1.0 release:

• 🐈‍⬛ agentless_logs: raw logs and trajectory information
• 🐈‍⬛ swebench_lite_repo_structure: preprocessed structure information for each SWE-Bench-lite problem
• 🐈‍⬛ 20240630_agentless_gpt4o: evaluated run of Agentless used in our paper

@article{agentless,
  author    = {Xia, Chunqiu Steven and Deng, Yinlin and Dunn, Soren and Zhang, Lingming},
  title     = {Agentless: Demystifying LLM-based Software Engineering Agents},
  year      = {2024},
  journal   = {arXiv preprint},
}

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