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Open-source autonomous AI coding agent with self-hosting, IDE integration, in-editor chat, and code completion across 25+ languages and major editors.
Open-source autonomous AI coding agent with self-hosting, IDE integration, and autocomplete built on Qwen2.5-Coder.
Refact.ai is an open-source autonomous AI coding agent that plans, writes, executes, and deploys code end-to-end, combining in-editor chat, accurate inline completion, and a full agent workflow into one developer tool. It claims the top spot among open-source agents on SWE-bench and pairs agentic autonomy with the ability to self-host the whole stack on customer infrastructure.
The platform is built on Qwen2.5-Coder with retrieval-augmented generation over the user's own repository, so completions reflect project-specific types, imports, and naming. Integrations with GitHub, databases, and CI/CD tools let the agent run real workflows β open PRs, run tests, query production databases β with supervised approval inside the IDE.
Key benefits:
- Open-source agent under a permissive licence allows full audit and forking
- Self-hosted deployment keeps source code, prompts, and completions on-premises
- Retrieval-augmented completion adapts to project-specific code style and APIs
- Broad IDE support covers VS Code, all JetBrains IDEs, Visual Studio, Neovim, and Sublime
- Autonomous agent mode executes multi-step plans across repos, CI, and databases
- 25+ languages from Python and TypeScript to Rust, C++, SQL, and YAML
Operated by Small Magellanic Cloud AI Ltd., headquartered in the United Kingdom, Refact.ai offers EU and UK hosting under GDPR, plus full on-premises deployment for teams with strict data sovereignty requirements. Self-hosting removes any external data sharing from the loop entirely.
Ideal for engineering teams, regulated enterprises, and open-source contributors that want a Copilot-class coding agent they can inspect, self-host, and run against private codebases without sending anything to US cloud providers.
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