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sweepai/sweep
Sweep: AI coding assistant for JetBrains
Sweep started as a GitHub App that automatically turned issues into PRs using GPT-4. It has since pivoted to a JetBrains IDE plugin. The repo is effectively a graveyard of the original product — the README is two sentences pointing you to the JetBrains marketplace.
The technical blog posts in docs/pages/blogs/ are genuinely good reading — chunking strategies, embedding speed tradeoffs, vector DB implementation details are documented from real production experience. The original codebase shows thoughtful architecture: separate agents for planning, searching, and modifying code rather than one monolithic prompt. The hybrid search approach (vector + lexical via ripgrep extractor) was ahead of most open-source tooling at the time.
This repo is abandoned as a self-hostable tool — the README doesn't explain what the code does anymore, just links to a paid plugin. Primary language is listed as Jupyter Notebook because the only active code is notebooks; the Python backend is unmaintained. Self-hosting was always painful (Redis, GitHub App setup, multiple services) and there's no indication that path still works. If you're evaluating this as an open-source AI coding tool to run yourself, you're looking at a corpse.