Application
Agents & OrchestrationCoding
Devika
1Open-source 2autonomous 3AI 4software 5engineer 6agent
the six Ws · specification
W1
Who
Maintained by stitionai and community; an open alternative to Devin.
W2
What
An agentic AI engineer that plans, researches the web, writes code, and executes to build features.
W3
Where
Runs self-hosted with a Python backend, web UI, and a browser for research.
W4
When
Reach for it when experimenting with an end-to-end autonomous coding agent locally.
W5
Why
A free, self-hostable way to explore instruction-to-working-code workflows.
W6
With
An LLM API key (multiple providers), Python, and a browser.
W7
Watch
Community project; the agent writes and executes code and browses autonomously, so sandbox it. MIT licensed, early-stage and less actively maintained.
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