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AlbertCode SWE

Open Source

What's open, and what isn't.

The AlbertCode agents are proprietary applications, free to install. Around them, everything that helps you adopt, inspect and improve them is public: two repositories with readable installers, full documentation, examples, benchmark evidence, a roadmap and a changelog — open to your contributions.

Licensing

Four kinds of material, four sets of terms.

From each repository's LICENSING.md. None of the open licences covers the agent applications themselves.

  • Code: installer/, scripts/, examples/ and .github/

    Apache License 2.0

  • Documentation: docs/, benchmarks/ and top-level Markdown

    CC BY 4.0

  • Brand: assets/ and the AlbertCode names

    All rights reserved — refer to the project accurately

  • The agent applications and everything their installers install

    Proprietary, distributed under their own terms

In the repositories

  • Documentation and tutorials
  • The bootstrap installers
  • Example custom commands and agents
  • Benchmark methodology and published results
  • Issues, discussions, roadmap and changelog

Not in the repositories

  • The AlbertCode engine: planning, verification, review
  • Model prompts and orchestration
  • Internal services and APIs
  • Unpublished evaluations

Contributing

Where your help lands.

To change how the agents plan, verify or review work, open a feature request describing the behaviour you want — the engine isn't in these repositories.

Documentation
Fixing an error, a clearer explanation, a missing step, a translation
Examples
Custom commands and agents other people can copy (AlbertCode SWE Agent)
Installer
Support for another distribution, a clearer message, a fix
Integrations
Guides for using AlbertCode with an editor, CI system or MCP server
Benchmarks
Reproducing a published result, or improving the methodology
Tutorials
A walkthrough of a real task, start to finish
  1. 1

    Small fixes

    Typos, broken links, one-line clarifications: open a pull request directly.

  2. 2

    Anything larger

    Open an issue or discussion first, so the approach is agreed before you spend time on it.

  3. 3

    Fork and branch

    Fork the repository and branch from main. Keep each pull request to one subject.

  4. 4

    Run the checks

    The same checks run automatically on every pull request.

  5. 5

    Sign off

    Certify the Developer Certificate of Origin by signing off each commit with git commit -s.

python3 scripts/release_gate.py

Every change, in both repositories: scans for secrets and private material.

shellcheck installer/install.sh

Installer changes in albertcode-swe-agent.

sh installer/tests/test_install_sh.sh

Installer changes in mini-albertcode-swe-agent.

Never include API keys, tokens, private code or anyone's personal information. Report security problems privately through the repository's Security tab, not in public issues.

Roadmap

Planned, and shipped — kept apart.

Planned items are from ROADMAP.md, which promises no dates. Shipped items are from the changelogs, which are the record of what exists. Where they disagree, the changelog wins.

Now

Planned
  • First public release: installers for Windows, macOS and Linux, with checksums, on the releases page
  • A recorded demo of a real session, replacing the illustrative one in the README

Next

Planned
  • Signed installers, so Windows SmartScreen and macOS Gatekeeper don't warn
  • Package managers: winget on Windows and Homebrew on macOS
  • albertcode --version, and a built-in update check you can switch off
  • Published benchmark results, following the benchmark methodology

Later

Planned
  • More example commands, agents and integration guides, contributed by the community
  • Guides for running AlbertCode in CI

Recently shipped

Implemented

  • AlbertCode SWE Agent · 1.54.1

    • The same words for every provider, in every interface
    • The Requirements and Architecture guides name the workspace's own buttons

  • AlbertCode SWE Agent · 1.54.0

    • A new browser workspace (albertcode web)
    • A full-screen terminal interface
    • One set of sessions shared by terminal and browser

  • AlbertCode SWE Agent · 1.53.0

    • Connectors gallery grows to 88, each seen working
    • Sign-in asks only for the scope the server names

  • mini-AlbertCode SWE Agent · 0.1.11

    • Attachments shown as themselves, and passed to the work
    • 105 connectors ready to add
    • Switching mode mid-conversation works

  • mini-AlbertCode SWE Agent · 0.1.9

    • Preview runs the project beside the conversation
    • A terminal in the page
ROADMAP.md(opens in a new tab)AlbertCode changelog(opens in a new tab)mini-AlbertCode changelog(opens in a new tab)

Community

Take part.

Support AlbertCode

Both agents are free to install, with no account. If AlbertCode saves you time, you can support its development with a coffee. It's entirely optional: nothing on this site or in the agents depends on it.

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