QwenLM/qwen-code
An open-source AI coding agent that lives in your terminal.
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Where it stands
Rank, growth pace and release cadence relative to everything GStars tracks.
Ranks #29 among AI Agents repositories ranked this week, and #52 over the last 30 days; #131 of 182 repositories with measured growth this week (top 72%).
This week's +225 stars is ahead of its 30-day pace of about +152 per week.
5 releases in the last 90 days, the latest today, with 419 contributors on GitHub.
Peaked at #18 in the weekly ranking the week of Aug 9, its best in the past year.
Use Cases & Benefits
- Provides an AI-powered command-line tool that enhances developer workflows with code understanding, editing, and automation.
- Offers seamless integration with Qwen3-Coder models and automatic vision model switching for multimodal code analysis.
- Use for exploring and analyzing large codebases beyond traditional context limits to understand architecture and dependencies.
- Use for automating git workflows and file operations like changelog creation, renaming, and code cleanup via CLI commands.
- Use for accelerating development by generating code, refactoring, writing tests, and creating documentation interactively in terminal.
Should you depend on it?
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License
Apache 2.0
Permissive: commercial use, modification and redistribution are allowed with attribution; includes an explicit patent grant from contributors.
Community files
- README: present
- Contributing guide: present
Watch-outs
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From the README
AI-powered command-line workflow tool for developers
Qwen Code is a powerful command-line AI workflow tool adapted from Gemini CLI (details), specifically optimized for Qwen3-Coder models. It enhances your development workflow with advanced code understanding, automated tasks, and intelligent assistance.
Daily snapshots
Stars gained per day, and how forks and open issues moved, from GStars' daily snapshots
+2,180 stars over 90 days across 27 snapshot days; best day +46 on Aug 17.
Forks
3.3K+501
Open issues
2.1K+1.2K
Compared with peers in AI Agents
Fastest-growing repositories GStars tracks in this cohort for the week of Nov 1, by 7-day star growth
| Repository | Stars | +7d | Health | Last release |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| vercel-labs/agent-desktop | 17.0K | +13.3K | 33 | today |
| thedotmack/claude-mem | 113.6K | +8.8K | 35 | today |
| stablyai/orca | 116.8K | +6.6K | 40 | today |
| milind-soni/OpenMausBot | 13.5K | +6.0K | 45 | today |
| HKUDS/DeepTutor | 55.5K | +5.5K | 65 | 5 days ago |
| QwenLM/qwen-code | 29.0K | +225 | 40 | today |
| Category median | 55.5K | +6.6K | 40 | — |
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