GPT Engineer
https://github.com/AntonOsika/gpt-engineer
One of the original 'agent writes a whole codebase from a prompt' CLI experiments; precursor to the commercial Lovable (lovable.dev / gptengineer.app). Repository archived (read-only) on 2026-04-22.
Archived · Verified 2026-10-29 · fresh as of 2026-10-29 · 18 cited facts, 1 with a third-party source · 2 recorded changes · Suggest a correction
At a glance
- Type
- Spec-to-codebase agent repo fix
- Tier
- T3
- Latest release
- v0.3.1 (2024-06-06) registry fix
- Pricing
- searched not found fix
- Funding
- searched not found fix
- Freshness
- 2026-10-29 fix
- Layer
- agent-infra repo fix
- Licensing
- open-source repo fix
- Developer activity
- OpenRank 0.71 (12-mo avg 1.16) · 3 participants — 2025-11 third-party fix
When to use
Optimised for: searched not found
Anti-fit: searched not found
Pros & cons
Pros
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Cons
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Claims & capabilities
AI-codes-an-app demo from Anton Osika 2023; same author founded Lovable.dev 2024.
Technical surface
- API surface
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- Backend storage
- not applicable — not a memory product
- Deployment
- Self-hosted only — CLI
- Embedding model
- not applicable — not a memory product
- Multi-tenancy
- searched not found
- MCP
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- A2A
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- OpenTelemetry
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Sources (17 cited facts, 1 third-party)
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- What it is Spec-to-codebase agent repo
- What it does & what's distinct One of the original 'agent writes a whole codebase from a prompt' CLI experiments; precu… repo
- Claims / benefits AI-codes-an-app demo from Anton Osika 2023; same author founded Lovable.dev 2024. repo
- Created 2023 repo
- Latest release v0.3.1 (2024-06-06) registry
- License MIT repo
- GitHub AntonOsika/gpt-engineer — ~55k stars, last commit 2025-05 (archived 2026-04-22) repo
- Deployment Self-hosted only — CLI repo
- Founders / pedigree Anton Osika; founded 2023-06; later commercialized as Lovable.dev (founded 2024). repo
- Runtimes Python registry
- commit-trajectory [{"ym":"2023-10","cum":745},{"ym":"2023-11","cum":887},{"ym":"2023-12","cum":1020},{"ym"… repo
- download-trajectory [{"ym":"2025-11","monthly":925,"cum":925},{"ym":"2025-12","monthly":762,"cum":1687},{"ym… registry
- architecture-deployment-locus local repo
- licensing-bucket open-source repo
- positioning-platform-vs-product product repo
- taxonomy-three-layer-rollup agent-infra repo
- developer-activity-opendigger {"activity":4.9,"as_of":"2025-11","openrank_12mo":1.16,"openrank_current":0.71,"particip… third-party
What changed
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