Introducing MenteE SWE: An Autonomous Coding Agent for Your Terminal

MenteE SWE is our autonomous software-engineering agent. It lives in your terminal, investigates your repository, plans the change, edits files with surgical precision, verifies with your own tests, and reports back with evidence — never claiming success without proof.

What it is

MenteE SWE is a model-agnostic autonomous SWE agent. You bring your own model key; MenteE supplies the brain-to-editor harness: the tool layer, the verification loop, context management, and orchestration. The product is the harness — not the underlying LLM.

• Autonomous by default — describe a task in plain English; it explores, edits, and verifies on its own.
• Model-agnostic — switch providers without changing how you work.
• Safe by design — no silent deletions, no unbounded reads, no destructive commands without approval.
• Persistent — remembers prior conversations and project knowledge across restarts.

Install and go

npm i -g @menteeai/menteeswe
mentee config
cd your-project
mentee "fix the failing auth tests"

Or try without installing: npx @menteeai/menteeswe "your task". Requires Node 20+. MIT licensed.

The tool suite

MenteE SWE ships with a complete tool layer: filesystem (read, write, patch, move), search (regex, files, list), git (status, diff, log, branches), execution (with safe auto-approve for reads), testing (run tests, linter, typecheck), environment inspection, persistent memory, and web search. There is no delete_file tool — deletion is never automatic.

Supported providers

Z.ai Coding is the default. Also supports Kimi Moonshot, GLM Zhipu, and Z.ai GLM international. All configurable via mentee config or environment variables.

What's next

Subagents for parallel investigation, PR creation workflows, and team/shared memory scopes are on the roadmap. Install it today from npm or visit /products/swe for details.