Sweep AI
Superseded: the sweepai/sweep README says the team now builds an AI coding assistant for JetBrains; the GitHub-app product described here is no longer the focus (repo not archived). No dedicated persistent memory layer. Operates as a GitHub App — reads issue + codebase fresh on each trigger. Some context implicit in the PR/issue threads it created previously. Successor product: Sweep: AI Autocomplete and Coding Agent JetBrains plugin (Marketplace id 26860; latest version 1.29.3, 2026-02-05). As of Oct 2026 sweep.dev does not resolve to a website.
Deprecated · Verified 2026-10-29 · fresh as of 2026-10-29 · 39 cited facts, 8 with a third-party source · 1 recorded change · Suggest a correction
At a glance
- Type
- GitHub-thread-as-implicit-memory vendor fix
- Tier
- T2
- Section
- Coding-agent memory
- Created
- 2023 (GitHub app launched); pivoted to JetBrains plugin 2025 third-party fix
- Latest release
- not applicable — not OSS fix
- Funding
- $500K Seed · 2023-01 third-party fix
- Freshness
- 2026-10-29 fix
- Layer
- agent-infra repo fix
- Licensing
- commercial repo fix
- Developer activity
- OpenRank 0.15 (12-mo avg 0.65) · 3 participants — 2026-09 third-party fix
Memory taxonomy
- storage
- file
- retrieval
- extraction-pull
- persistence
- session
- update
- read-only
- unit
- episode
- governance
- inspectable
- conflict
- none
When to use
Optimised for: GitHub-thread-as-memory simplicity
Anti-fit: not for non-GitHub workflows; no dedicated memory layer
Pros & cons
Pros
GitHub-issue-to-PR agent with memory of past PRs and code-review feedback.
Cons
GitHub-PR scope; less useful for interactive coding sessions.
Claims & capabilities
Pivoted to JetBrains plugin (2025); no cross-session memory added.
Technical surface
- API surface
- searched not found
- Backend storage
- searched not found
- Deployment
- Both (GitHub App managed + JetBrains plugin local)
- Embedding model
- searched not found
- Multi-tenancy
- searched not found
- MCP
- searched not found — Sweep is a GitHub-app-shaped tool; MCP not surfaced
- A2A
- searched not found
- OpenTelemetry
- searched not found
Alternatives to Sweep AI → live options ranked by shared design, licence, hosting and MCP support
Similar systems
Other coding-agent memory in the catalog, ranked by inbound references.
- Devin (Cognition) T1
Structured Knowledge items stored server-side. Three-tier scope: repo-pinned (always injected), global (recall by relevance), org/enterprise (visible to org members). Auto-generates Repo Knowledge from repo structure each session; reads past session trajectories for self-improvement; writes notes for recurring scheduled tasks.
- Aider T2
Appends conversation turns to .aider.chat.history.md in project root. restore_chat_history defaults to false — no automatic replay into new sessions. Community /session save command for JSON state snapshots. .aider.conf.yml carries static preferences.
- Augment Code T1
Real-time knowledge graph indexed from connected repos + commit history + CI/CD + tickets + docs. Separate Agent Memory layer (Sept 2025) captures session decisions/corrections/goals as discrete items with developer review/approval UI. MCP endpoint exposes the graph. Acquired by Harness (2026-10-08): Harness bought select Augment Code assets, including Cosmos, the Auggie CLI and the Context Engine, and the team joined Harness. augmentcode.com now leads with Cosmos, a software-factory agent platform.
- Letta Code T3
Letta's stateful coding-agent harness: agents rewrite their own memory blocks and skills, version context in git via MemFS (syncable to GitHub) and reflect via a periodic /sleeptime 'dreaming' process. from Letta (MemGPT) team. letta-ai/letta-code is now the main Letta source (harness, terminal UI, App Server, channels); the Letta V1 API server was retired to the archive branch of letta-ai/letta.
- Replit Agent T1
No documented built-in persistent semantic memory store. Session duration expanded to 200 min (Agent 3); Agent 4 shifts toward persistent runtimes. Temporal used for orchestration durability, not semantic memory. Cross-session memory relies on filesystem + agent-written notes.
- agentmemory (rohitg00) T3
Self-hosted persistent memory layer that captures coding-agent activity and recalls it in later sessions, positioned on public benchmark results. #7 in TeleAI Awesome-Agent-Memory
Sources (38 cited facts, 8 third-party)
Each fact links to the page it came from; the badge says who published it (how to read sources).
- What it is GitHub-thread-as-implicit-memory vendor
- What it does & what's distinct Superseded: the sweepai/sweep README says the team now builds an AI coding assistant for… third-party
- Claims / benefits Pivoted to JetBrains plugin (2025); no cross-session memory added. vendor
- Modalities text vendor
- Created 2023 (GitHub app launched); pivoted to JetBrains plugin 2025 third-party
- License proprietary (Sweep Enterprise Edition License; some parts MIT) repo
- GitHub sweepai/sweep — ~7.7k stars (legacy GitHub-app code) repo
- Funding $500K Seed · 2023-01 third-party
- Customers / scale 1-10 ppl JetBrains IDE users third-party
- Pricing Free (community); Pro and Team tiers; LLM cost + 5% markup model for agent usage vendor
- Deployment Both (GitHub App managed + JetBrains plugin local) vendor
- HQ US (San Francisco) third-party
- Founders / pedigree Kevin Lu and William Zeng (co-founders); YC S23; both previously at Roblox as ML engineers third-party
- Memory volume / scale no scale claim vendor
- Consistency strong vendor
- Versioning none vendor
- Schema evolution free-form / no schema vendor
- Namespace primitives hierarchical vendor
- MCP support searched not found — Sweep is a GitHub-app-shaped tool; MCP not surfaced vendor
- Validated verticals coding agents only - GitHub-flow teams vendor
- Time to running <10min (GitHub install) vendor
- Anti-fit not for non-GitHub workflows; no dedicated memory layer vendor
- Optimised for GitHub-thread-as-memory simplicity vendor
- Adjacent infrastructure requires GitHub vendor
- Pros GitHub-issue-to-PR agent with memory of past PRs and code-review feedback. vendor
- Cons GitHub-PR scope; less useful for interactive coding sessions. vendor
- Project & sources sweep.dev docs vendor
- cost-input-usd-per-mtok 0 vendor
- cost-output-usd-per-mtok 0 vendor
- cost-tier free vendor
- cost-pricing-model free-tier vendor
- cost-last-verified 2026-06-29 vendor
- adoption-accelerator yc-s23 third-party
- architecture-deployment-locus ide repo
- licensing-bucket commercial repo
- positioning-platform-vs-product product repo
- taxonomy-three-layer-rollup agent-infra repo
- developer-activity-opendigger {"activity":5.13,"as_of":"2026-09","openrank_12mo":0.65,"openrank_current":0.15,"partici… third-party
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