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-  <h1>Open SWE - A cloud based, fully autonomous coding agent</h1>
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-Open SWE is an open-source cloud-based coding agent built with [LangGraph](https://langchain-ai.github.io/langgraphjs/). It autonomously understands codebases, plans solutions, and executes code changes across entire repositories—from initial planning to opening pull requests.
+Open SWE is an open-source cloud-based asynchronous coding agent built with [LangGraph](https://langchain-ai.github.io/langgraphjs/). It autonomously understands codebases, plans solutions, and executes code changes across entire repositories—from initial planning to opening pull requests.
 
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 > Try out Open SWE yourself using our [public demo](https://swe.langchain.com)!