Agyn: A Multi-Agent System for Team-Based Autonomous Software Engineering
On the map: LLM agents and tool use → Software engineering coding agents
Abstract (arXiv)
Large language models have demonstrated strong capabilities in individual software engineering tasks, yet most autonomous systems still treat issue resolution as a monolithic or pipeline-based process. In contrast, real-world software development is organized as a collaborative activity carried out by teams following shared methodologies, with clear role separation, communication, and review. In this work, we present a fully automated multi-agent system that explicitly models software engineering as an organizational process, replicating the structure of an engineering team. Built on top of agyn, an open-source platform for configuring agent teams, our system assigns specialized agents to roles such as coordination, research, implementation, and review, provides them with isolated sandboxes for experimentation, and enables structured communication. The system follows a defined development methodology for working on issues, including analysis, task specification, pull request creation, and iterative review, and operates without any human intervention. Importantly, the system was designed for real production use and was not tuned for SWE-bench. When evaluated post hoc on SWE-bench 500, it resolves 72.2% of tasks, outperforming single-agent baselines using comparable language models. Our results suggest that replicating team structure, methodology, and communication is a powerful paradigm for autonomous software engineering, and that future progress may depend as much on organizational design and agent infrastructure as on model improvements.
Key facts. Cited by 6 papers in the map (data through 7 Oct 2026). Placed in Software engineering coding agents, one of 16 directions in LLM agents and tool use. Builds on 6 of its 8 references that are in the map. First posted on arXiv 1 Feb 2026.
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6 of 8 references.
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- 2024SWE-agent: Agent-Computer Interfaces Enable Automated Software Engineering6 May
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- 2026Code Broker: A Multi-Agent System for Automated Code Quality Assessment25 Apr 2026
- 2026Learning to Commit: Generating Organic Pull Requests via Online Repository Memory27 Mar 2026
- 2026Effective Strategies for Asynchronous Software Engineering Agents23 Mar 2026
- 2026AWCP: A Workspace Delegation Protocol for Deep-Engagement Collaboration across Remote Agents24 Feb 2026
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