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# Immersion in the GitHub Universe: Scaling Coding Agents to Mastery
**Authors**: Jiale Zhao, Guoxin Chen, Fanzhe Meng, Minghao Li, Jie Chen, Hui Xu, Yongshuai Sun, Wayne Xin Zhao, Ruihua Song, Yuan Zhang, Peng Wang, Cheng Chen, Ji-Rong Wen, Kai Jia
\uselogo Corresponding author:
{marshmallowzjl, gx.chen.chn, mengfanzhe16, batmanfly}@gmail.com, songruihua_bloon@outlook.com, jiakai@bytedance.com
Abstract
Achieving mastery in real-world software engineering tasks is fundamentally bottlenecked by the scarcity of large-scale, high-quality training data. Scaling such data has been limited by the complexity of environment setup, unit-test generation, and problem statement curation. In this paper, we propose ScaleâSWE, an automated, sandboxed multiâagent workflow designed to construct highâquality SWE data at scale. The system coordinates three specialized agentsâfor environment setup, test creation, and problem description synthesisâto process 6 million pull requests across 5.2k repositories, producing ScaleâSWEâData: 100k verified SWE instances, the largest such dataset to date. It substantially surpasses existing realâworld datasets in repository diversity and reflects realistic task complexity. We further demonstrate the datasetâs utility for training by distilling 71,498 highâquality trajectories and fineâtuning Qwenâ30B-A3B-Instruct to produce ScaleâSWEâAgent. Our agent achieves a 64% resolve rate on SWEâBenchâVerifiedâa nearly threeâfold improvement over the base model. ScaleâSWE provides a scalable, reproducible approach for data construction to advance LLMâbased software engineering.
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1 Introduction
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## Scatter Plot: SWE-Bench Verified vs. Activated Model Size
### Overview
The image is a scatter plot comparing the performance of various language models on the SWE-Bench verification task against their activated model size. The x-axis represents the activated model size in billions of parameters (B), and the y-axis represents the SWE-Bench verified percentage. Each blue dot represents a different model, with its name and performance percentage labeled next to it. A red star highlights the "Scale-SWE" model.
### Components/Axes
* **X-axis:** Activated Model Size (B). The scale is non-linear, with markers at 3, 7, 32, and 70.
* **Y-axis:** SWE-Bench Verified (%). The scale ranges from 10 to 70, with markers at intervals of 10.
* **Data Points:** Each data point is a blue circle, labeled with the model name and its corresponding SWE-Bench verified percentage.
* **Highlighted Point:** The "Scale-SWE" model is marked with a red star.
### Detailed Analysis
Here's a breakdown of the data points, their approximate positions, and the trend they exhibit:
* **Scale-SWE:** (Red Star) Located at approximately (3, 64%). SWE-Bench Verified is 64%.
* **Qwen3-30A3B-Instruct:** Located at approximately (3, 22%). SWE-Bench Verified is 22%.
* **Qwen3-Coder-30A3B:** Located at approximately (3, 52%). SWE-Bench Verified is 52.2%.
* **GLM-4.7-Flash:** Located at approximately (3, 59%). SWE-Bench Verified is 59.2%.
* **SWE-Mirror-7B:** Located at approximately (7, 23%). SWE-Bench Verified is 22.8%.
* **SWE-Lego-8B:** Located at approximately (7, 42%). SWE-Bench Verified is 42.2%.
* **SWE-Gym:** Located at approximately (32, 21%). SWE-Bench Verified is 20.6%.
* **R2E-Gym:** Located at approximately (32, 34%). SWE-Bench Verified is 34.4%.
* **SWE-smith:** Located at approximately (32, 40%). SWE-Bench Verified is 40.2%.
* **Llama3-SWE-RL:** Located at approximately (70, 41%). SWE-Bench Verified is 41%.
* **SWE-Fixer:** Located at approximately (70, 33%). SWE-Bench Verified is 32.8%.
* **KAT-Dev-32B:** Located at approximately (32, 62%). SWE-Bench Verified is 62.4%.
* **SWE-Lego-32B:** Located at approximately (32, 53%). SWE-Bench Verified is 52.6%.
* **SWE-Mirror-32B:** Located at approximately (32, 52%). SWE-Bench Verified is 52.2%.
### Key Observations
* There is a general trend of increasing SWE-Bench verified percentage as the activated model size increases, but this trend is not strictly linear.
* There is a cluster of models around the 32B activated model size, with varying SWE-Bench verified percentages.
* The "Scale-SWE" model has the highest SWE-Bench verified percentage (64%) and is highlighted with a red star.
* The models with the smallest activated model size (3B) have the lowest SWE-Bench verified percentages.
### Interpretation
The scatter plot suggests that, in general, larger language models tend to perform better on the SWE-Bench verification task. However, the performance is not solely determined by model size, as models with similar sizes can have significantly different performance. This indicates that other factors, such as model architecture, training data, and training methods, also play a crucial role in determining the performance on this benchmark. The "Scale-SWE" model stands out as having the best performance, suggesting it may have a particularly effective architecture or training regime for this task. The clustering of models around 32B suggests this may be a common or practical model size.
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Figure 1: Resolved rate vs. activated model size on SWE-bench Verified. The vertical axis denotes the percentage of resolved issues on the SWE-bench Verified benchmark. The horizontal axis represents the number of activated parameters in billions (B).
Recently, LLM-based code agents have garnered significant attention for their demonstrated potential in tackling complex software engineering (SWE) tasks [Anthropic, 2025a, Google, 2025, OpenAI, 2025], as reflected in benchmarks like SWE-bench [Jimenez et al., 2023] and its successors [Zhang et al., 2025]. Yet the advancement of these agents is fundamentally constrained by the scarcity of high-quality training data. Unlike conventional code generation, SWE tasks necessitate operation within executable environments, requiring agents to navigate existing codebases, manage dependencies, and satisfy test suites. These inherent complexities render the systematic curation and validation of appropriate data a significant challenge.
Current methodologies for constructing SWE-style datasets predominantly rely on labor-intensive manual curation [Pan et al., 2024] or on simplistic LLM-based [Badertdinov et al., 2025] and rule-based synthesis [Guo et al., 2025b]. Consequently, existing datasets are often limited in scale, diversity, and difficulty, or lack the executable environments and comprehensive test suites. This limitation persists despite the wealth of available real-world software artifacts, including code repositories, issue trackers, and commit histories, which remain largely untapped for building a scalable, realistic dataset. The absence of systematic, automated mining techniques has thus produced a clear disconnect between these raw software resources and the creation of robust, large-scale training data. This compelling need drives our work to develop an automated and reproducible approach for dataset construction.
However, the automatic construction of SWE datasets presents unique and significant challenges. First, environment configuration becomes a major hurdle as repository diversity increases, leading to highly heterogeneous and often fragile build processes [Froger et al., 2025], which can be challenging even for experienced developers to set up correctly. Second, real-world repositories frequently lack sufficient, well-defined unit tests. While incorporating these repositories is essential to reduce data bias and achieve scale, generating comprehensive unit tests itself is a complex problem that demands interactive agentic execution and self-correction. Finally, a substantial portion of real-world pull requests either lack informative descriptions or are inherently unsuitable for SWE tasks. Therefore, generating high-quality, self-contained problem descriptions is challenging and requires agents to infer task intent by acquiring deep repository context through iterative sandbox exploration.
To overcome these challenges, in this paper, we introduce Scale-SWE, an automated, sandboxed multi-agent workflow designed for scalable, high-quality software engineering dataset construction. Our system coordinates three specialized agents: an environment builder agent that sets up isolated Docker environments, a unit-test creator agent that generates robust Pass-to-Pass (P2P) and Fail-to-Pass (F2P) test cases, and a problem statement agent that crafts self-contained task descriptions grounded in pull request content. By processing 6 million pull requests across 5,200 repositories, this workflow produces 100,000 verified instances, yielding the largest SWE dataset to date, which we call Scale-SWE-Data. This dataset surpasses prior real-world datasets in repository diversity and reflects realistic software engineering complexity, both in the number of file modifications required and the robustness of its unit tests.
To further demonstrate the utility of Scale-SWE-Data for model training, we distill 71,498 high-quality trajectories from a subset of 25,000 instances using DeepSeek-V3.2. Fine-tuning Qwen3-30A3B-Instruct on this distilled data yields our Scale-SWE-Agent, which achieves a substantial performance boost on SWE-Bench-Verified, increasing the resolve rate from 22% to 60%. This result underscores the effectiveness of our dataset for training and enhancing LLM-based code agents.
To summarize, our contributions are as follows:
- We introduce Scale-SWE, an automated, sandboxed multi-agent workflow for scalable, high-quality software engineering dataset construction. It systematically coordinates three specialized agents for environment setup, unit-test generation, and problem description synthesis.
- We construct Scale-SWE-Data, the largest verified SWE dataset to date, comprising 100,000 real-world instances. It surpasses prior benchmarks in repository diversity and task complexity, supporting both evaluation and training for LLM-based code agents.
- We distill 71,498 high-quality trajectories from Scale-SWE-Data and fine-tune Qwen-30A3B-Instruct to create Scale-SWE-Agent. The agent substantially boosts performance on SWE-Bench-Verified, achieving a 64% resolve rateâa nearly three-fold improvement over the original backbone.
2 Scale-SWE: Software Task Scaling
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## Flow Diagram: Automated Pull Request Processing
### Overview
The image is a flow diagram illustrating an automated process for handling pull requests in a software development environment, likely GitHub. It outlines three main agents: Environment Builder Agent, Unit-test Creator Agent, and Problem Statement Writer Agent. The process starts with real-world repositories and culminates in an "Immersion in the GitHub Universe."
### Components/Axes
* **Left Side**: Represents the initial stage of the process, starting with "Real-world 23k repositories" and progressing through "6M pull requests" to "1M high quality pull requests."
* **Agent 1: Environment Builder Agent**: Focuses on setting up the environment for testing.
* **Agent 2: Unit-test Creator Agent**: Deals with creating and fixing unit tests.
* **Agent 3: Problem Statement Writer Agent**: Generates problem statements based on pull request information.
* **Right Side**: Represents the final stage, "Immersion in the GitHub Universe."
### Detailed Analysis
**1. Real-world Repositories and Pull Requests (Left Side)**
* "Real-world 23k repositories" at the top-left, indicating the starting point.
* "GitHub API" is mentioned below the repositories, suggesting the use of the GitHub API to access the repositories.
* "6M pull requests" are processed.
* "Stars downloads LLM as Judge" indicates that stars, downloads, and a Large Language Model (LLM) are used to judge the quality of pull requests.
* "1M high quality pull requests" are the result of the initial filtering.
**2. Environment Builder Agent**
* **Auto-explore repository**: The agent starts by exploring the repository. A file explorer window is shown with files like `.src`, `.tests`, `.main.py`, and `.utils.py`.
* **Agent-based package installation**: Installs necessary packages using tools like `apt-get`, `pip`, and shell scripts.
* **Run unit-test**: Executes the unit tests.
* **Unit-test failed**: If the unit tests fail, the process moves to "Install more packages & Fix package versions &". A terminal window shows `pip install` and `conda install`.
* **Repeat Fix & Check**: The process repeats the installation and checking until the unit tests pass.
* **All unit-test passed**: If the unit tests pass, the process moves on.
* **Docker image built successfully**: A Docker image is built.
* **Extract trajectories**: Extracts trajectories using `pip install -e.[dev]`, `pip uninstall sqlalchemy-mixins -y`, and `pip install "SQLAlchemy<2.0"`.
**3. Unit-test Creator Agent**
* **Read pull request meta info**: Reads metadata from the pull request. The text "PULL REQUEST META INFO" is present.
* **Auto-explore repository**: Explores the repository. A file explorer window is shown with files like `.src`, `.tests`, `.main.py`, and `.utils.py`.
* **Run unit-test**: Executes the unit tests. A terminal window shows `$ pytest collecting ...`.
* **If failed, fix unit-test**: If the unit tests fail, the unit tests are fixed.
* **Write unit-test**: Writes the unit tests. The text "F2P" and "P2P" are present, possibly indicating "Fail-to-Pass" and "Pass-to-Pass".
**4. Problem Statement Writer Agent**
* **Read pull request meta info. & Read Fail-to-Pass**: Reads metadata from the pull request and information about failures. The text "FAIL-TO-PASS AND PULL REQUEST META INFO" is present.
* **Auto-explore repository**: Explores the repository. A file explorer window is shown with files like `.src`, `.tests`, `.main.py`, and `.utils.py`.
* **Write problem statement**: Writes a problem statement. The text "Problem Statement" is present.
**5. Immersion in the GitHub Universe (Right Side)**
* The final stage is represented by an image of a robot with a magnifying glass, surrounded by stars and GitHub logos, symbolizing immersion in the GitHub universe.
### Key Observations
* The diagram illustrates an automated workflow for processing pull requests, involving environment setup, unit test creation/fixing, and problem statement generation.
* The process uses a combination of automated tools and potentially LLMs to assess and improve the quality of pull requests.
* The iterative nature of the environment building and unit testing phases is emphasized.
### Interpretation
The diagram depicts a sophisticated system designed to streamline and enhance the pull request review process. By automating environment setup, unit test creation, and problem statement generation, the system aims to reduce the manual effort required from developers and improve the overall quality of code contributions. The use of LLMs as judges suggests an attempt to incorporate more intelligent and nuanced assessments of code quality. The "Immersion in the GitHub Universe" symbolizes a state where the system seamlessly integrates with the development workflow, providing valuable insights and automation to developers.
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Figure 2: The Sandboxed multi-agent system for Scale-SWE dataset construction. Starting from millions of raw GitHub pull requests, the pipeline employs a series of autonomous agents to transform high-quality PRs into executable software engineering tasks. The framework automates environment setup, unit test generation (Fail-to-Pass/Pass-to-Pass), and formal problem statement synthesis, ensuring the scalability and reproducibility of the distilled trajectories.
The core philosophy of Scale-SWE is to make use of a sandboxed multi-agent system to autonomously explore codebases and complete SWE data construction. Each SWE data instance encapsulates the necessary components: a docker image, a problem statement, and the validation unit tests (consisting of F2P and P2P unit tests). Our sandboxed multi-agent system offers significantly greater flexibility compared to prior rule-based construction methods. By shifting the construction burden to the agent, Scale-SWE enables the scaling of interactive environments while minimizing the heuristic bias inherent in rigid filtering pipelines. In what follows, we firstly introduce our sandboxed multi-agent system (Section 2.1), and then detail by the data processing pipeline (Section 2.2).
2.1 Sandboxed Multi-agent System
To scale the automated construction of software engineering tasks, we develop a sandboxed multi-agent system. This framework leverages collaborative agents to produce a large volume of SWE data with fully integrated, executable environments.
2.1.1 The Overall Workflow
As illustrated in Figure 2, our sandboxed multi-agent system automates the construction of software engineering tasks through the coordinated execution of three specialized agents: the Environment Builder Agent (EBA), the Unit-test Creator Agent (UCA), and the Problem Statement Writer Agent (PSWA). Within this framework, the EBA generates reproducible, Docker-based execution environments from target repositories, providing the isolated and consistent runtime needed for scalable task validation. The UCA synthesizes comprehensive, executable test suitesâincluding both Fail-to-Pass (F2P) and Pass-to-Pass (P2P) test casesâfrom pull requests and repository context, ensuring robust evaluation criteria. Finally, the PSWA produces high-quality, self-contained problem descriptions grounded in the executable test suites, guaranteeing semantic alignment between the problem statement and the validation requirements. The system is built upon SWE-agent [Yang et al., 2024a] and powered by the DeepSeek language model family [Liu et al., 2025] and Gemini3-Pro [Google, 2025], with task instances generated using both DeepSeek v3.1 or DeepSeek v3.2, with the exception of PSWA, which utilizes Gemini3-Pro.
2.1.2 Environment builder agent
The EBA is designed to automatically generate a reproducible, Docker-based execution environment from a target source code repository. By providing an isolated and executable sandbox, the EBA enables the scalable construction and validation of test samples for automated software engineering workflows.
Role Formulation. We define the core function of the EBA as the transformation of an initial, generic Docker environment into a specialized runtime container tailored to a specific repository. This process can be expressed as:
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\mathcal{D}_{\text{final}}=\text{EBA}(\mathcal{R},\mathcal{D}_{\text{init}}), \tag{1}
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where $\mathcal{R}$ denotes the input repository that the agent analyzes to infer dependencies and configuration logic, $\mathcal{D}_{\text{init}}$ is the base Docker image, and $\mathcal{D}_{\text{final}}$ is the resulting functional, ready-to-use container image.
Construction Process. In implementation, the EBA is initialized within a base Docker container containing the cloned repository. It begins by autonomously exploring the repositoryâs structure and analyzing configuration filesâsuch as setup.py, pyproject.toml, and README.md âto infer project dependencies. Since Python projects lack a universal setup protocol, a standardized installation approach is insufficient. The agent must therefore interpret project-specific documentation and interactively resolve dependency conflicts by parsing terminal feedback. This feedback-driven, autonomous process enables flexible environment configuration, circumventing the limitations of static, rule-based methods (e.g., predefined pip install commands). Finally, we extract all executed commands from the agentâs trajectory and use an LLM to synthesize them into a reproducible Dockerfile.
Efficiently Scaling Environmental Diversity. While constructing a dedicated environment per pull request (PR) is straightforward, it is computationally prohibitive for large-scale evaluation. To scale across a diverse set of repositories, we sample at most ten PRs per repository for full environment construction via the EBA. This sampling strategy enables broader repository coverage while controlling resource costs. Note that ten PRs do not yield only ten task samples; multiple PRs can share the same environment if they originate from a similar runtime state, resulting in significantly more test samples than uniquely built environments. Specifically, for the remaining PRs, we execute tests in the ânearestâ available Docker environment, determined by proximity in PR ID (as a proxy for repository timeline). If a PR fails the unit tests within its nearest available environment, it is discarded from the final dataset. Otherwise, the PR and its associated pre-established environment are retained as a valid test instance. On average, each repository contributes 19 test instances (see Table 2), dramatically improving environment reuse and overall dataset diversity.
2.1.3 Unit-test creator agent
The unit-test creator agent (UCA) is designed to automatically generate comprehensive and executable test suites from target source code repositories and their associated pull requests. By synthesizing semantic PR information with dynamic repository context, the UCA enables the scalable construction of validated Fail-to-Pass (F2P) and Pass-to-Pass (P2P) test cases, which are essential for robust software engineering task evaluation.
Role Formulation. The core function of the UCA is to transform the provided pull request metadata and its associated code context into a comprehensive suite of executable unit tests. This process can be expressed as:
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\mathcal{U}=\text{UCA}(\mathcal{M},\mathcal{R},\mathcal{D}_{\text{final}}), \tag{2}
$$
where $\mathcal{M}$ denotes the input pull request metadataâincluding the title, description, and diff patchesâthat provides the semantic specification for test generation, $\mathcal{R}$ is the associated source repository that the agent analyzes to understand code structure and logic, $\mathcal{D}_{\text{final}}$ is the functional Docker environment built by the EBA, and $\mathcal{U}$ is the resulting set of executable test cases. In this work, we adopt the SWE-bench protocol for unit tests, categorizing them into two types: Fail-to-Pass (F2P) tests, which initially fail on the original codebase and must pass after the bug-fixing patch to verify correctness; and Pass-to-Pass (P2P) tests, which are pre-existing passing tests that must continue to pass to ensure no regression is introduced.
Construction Process. A large proportion of GitHub repositories lack comprehensive unit tests, making the automated construction of both Fail-to-Pass (F2P) and Pass-to-Pass (P2P) test cases essential for creating valid Software Engineering (SWE) task instances. The UCA begins by analyzing structured metadata from a target PR, including its title, description, and diff patches. This input provides the necessary semantic grounding for the agent to comprehend the intent and scope of the proposed code changes. Building on this foundation, the agent performs an autonomous traversal of the associated repository to map its directory structure, identify key modules, and infer the underlying program logic and dependencies. However, generating effective unit tests presents a complex, stateful challenge that requires not only static code understanding but also dynamic behavioral validation. The agent must reason about cross-file interactions, data flow, exception handling, and edge casesâtasks that are difficult to accomplish through static analysis alone. To address this, the UCA is deployed within a secure, sandboxed execution environment (specifically, the Docker container $\mathcal{D}_{\text{final}}$ produced by the EBA). This sandbox grants the agent direct, real-time code execution privileges, enabling an interactive execute-analyze-refine loop. The agent can thus dynamically run its proposed tests, observe their outcomes, and iteratively revise the test logic, assertions, and fixtures. This closed-loop, feedback-driven methodology allows the UCA to produce robust, executable test suites.
2.1.4 Problem Statement Writer Agent
The problem statement writer agent (PSWA) is designed to automatically synthesize high-quality, self-contained task descriptions from raw pull requests and their associated test suites. By grounding the narrative in executable unit tests, the PSWA ensures semantic alignment between the problem specification and unit tests, thereby producing well-posed and tractable software engineering tasks.
Role Formulation. The core function of the PSWA is to generate a formal problem statement free of solution leakage according to pull request metadata and its corresponding test suite. This process can be expressed as:
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\mathcal{S}=\text{PSWA}(\mathcal{M},\mathcal{U},\mathcal{R},\mathcal{D}_{\text{final}}), \tag{3}
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where $\mathcal{M}$ denotes the input PR metadataâincluding its title, description, and diff patchesâthat provides initial contextual grounding; $\mathcal{U}$ is the executable unit-test suite generated by the UCA, which ensures the problem statement aligns with the actual validation requirements; $\mathcal{R}$ is the associated source repository; $\mathcal{D}_{\text{final}}$ is the functional Docker environment built by the EBA; and $\mathcal{S}$ is the resulting formal problem description that articulates the issue without exposing implementation details and consistent with unit-test at the same time.
Construction Process. Relying solely on raw PR descriptions as problem statements is fundamentally flawed due to their retrospective natureâthey are often written after the fix is implemented and may leak solution details or reference internal artifacts. Moreover, a significant portion of high-quality PRs lack descriptions or are disconnected from original issue reports. To overcome these limitations, the PSWA is initialized with both the PR metadata and the executable unit tests produced by the UCA. Integrating the test suite into the prompt is critical because F2P tests may invoke functions or classes that do not exist in the original codebase; the generated problem statement must explicitly articulate these requirements to make the task tractable. Without this alignment, descriptions derived only from PR metadata often diverge from the actual failures captured by the tests. The agent thus synthesizes a coherent, self-contained narrative that specifies the expected behavior, any new interfaces required by the tests, and the context necessary for an external solverâall while deliberately omitting hints about the implementation. This process ensures that each synthesized task instance is both semantically precise and evaluation-ready, scaling the creation of SWE-bench-style problems from raw repository data.
For PSWA, we employ Gemini3-Pro, as our experiments indicate that it generates more consistent and rigorous problem statements while significantly minimizing information leakage.
Table 1: Detailed statistics of the Scale-SWE dataset. We report the mean and percentiles (P50, P75, P95) for code modification metrics and test case distributions.
| Metric | Mean | P50 | P75 | P95 |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Modified Files | 6.4 | 3.0 | 6.0 | 18.0 |
| Deleted Lines | 54.9 | 1.0 | 10.0 | 119.0 |
| Added Lines | 220.8 | 43.0 | 120.0 | 595.0 |
| Edited Lines | 37.0 | 6.0 | 20.0 | 108.0 |
| Total Changes | 312.7 | 63.0 | 167.0 | 867.0 |
| Fail-to-Pass | 5.7 | 2.0 | 5.0 | 15.0 |
| Pass-to-Pass | 209.0 | 68.0 | 178.0 | 793.0 |
| Total tests | 214.7 | 72.0 | 185.0 | 801.7 |
2.2 Data Processing
Ensuring high data quality is the foremost priority in building a reliable dataset. This section details our curation methodology to achieve this goal.
Repository Selection. To assemble a comprehensive and high-quality corpus, we sourced repositories from two primary channels, illustrated in Figure 5. First, we identified the repositories corresponding to the top 15,000 most-downloaded packages on the Python Package Index (PyPI), using data from Top PyPI Packages. Second, to capture notable projects beyond PyPI, we queried the SEART search engine with the following criteria: primary language as Python, a minimum of 5 contributors, at least 500 stars, and a creation date between January 1, 2015, and October 29, 2025. This query returned 9,062 repositories. The initial union of these two sources yielded approximately 23,000 candidate repositories. We then applied a multi-stage filtering pipeline. First, to prevent data leakage from the evaluation benchmark, we excluded all PRs originating from repositories listed in SWE-Bench Verified. Second, we filtered to include only repositories with permissive open-source licenses. Finally, recognizing that a subset of repositories might be GPU-dependent, tutorial-based, or contain minimal source code, we performed a content-based filter. We extracted the README files from all remaining candidates and employed an LLM-as-a-judge approach to automatically exclude repositories deemed unsuitable for training.
Pull Request Filtering. We next extracted all pull requests merged into the âmainâ or âmasterâ branches of the filtered repositories, resulting in a preliminary set of 6 million entries. To ensure quality, we utilized an LLM-as-a-judge to filter low-quality instances based on the available metadata: the git diff, the pull request description, and the merge commit message.
Cheating Prevention. During the evaluation phase, it is imperative to prevent the model from exploiting git commands (e.g., git log --all) to access ground truth solutions [Xiao et al., 2026]. To address this, we execute a sanitization script immediately after initializing the task environment. This process, systematically removes metadata that follows the taskâs parent commit. It performs a hard reset, deletes all remote references and tags, and purges internal git files (e.g., logs/, packed-refs, and various HEAD files), thereby eliminating any trace of future solution history.
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## Bar Chart: Error Type Distribution Across Different SWE Environments
### Overview
The image is a bar chart comparing the percentage of different error types across four software engineering (SWE) environments: SWE-Bench-Verified, SWE-Gym, SWE-smith, and Scale-SWE. The chart displays the distribution of errors such as API Mismatch, Logic Error, Input/Boundary, Constructor, Import Error, State Sync, Mutability, Spec Violation, I/O Resource, and Security.
### Components/Axes
* **X-axis:** SWE Environments (SWE-Bench-Verified, SWE-Gym, SWE-smith, Scale-SWE)
* **Y-axis:** Percentage (%) with scale markers at 0%, 20%, 40%, and 60%.
* **Legend:** Located at the top of the chart, mapping colors to error types:
* Blue: API Mismatch
* Orange: Logic Error
* Green: Input/Boundary
* Red: Constructor
* Purple: Import Error
* Brown: State Sync
* Pink: Mutability
* Gray: Spec Violation
* Olive Green: I/O Resource
* Teal: Security
### Detailed Analysis
**SWE-Bench-Verified:**
* API Mismatch: Approximately 12%
* Logic Error: Approximately 43%
* Input/Boundary: Approximately 19%
* Constructor: Approximately 4%
* Import Error: Approximately 8%
* State Sync: Approximately 9%
* Mutability: Approximately 3%
* Spec Violation: Approximately 8%
* I/O Resource: Approximately 1%
* Security: Approximately 13%
**SWE-Gym:**
* API Mismatch: Approximately 20%
* Logic Error: Approximately 36%
* Input/Boundary: Approximately 21%
* Constructor: Approximately 3%
* Import Error: Approximately 8%
* State Sync: Approximately 7%
* Mutability: Approximately 2%
* Spec Violation: Approximately 9%
* I/O Resource: Approximately 1%
* Security: Approximately 1%
**SWE-smith:**
* API Mismatch: Approximately 12%
* Logic Error: Approximately 63%
* Input/Boundary: Approximately 12%
* Constructor: Approximately 6%
* Import Error: Approximately 9%
* State Sync: Approximately 5%
* Mutability: Approximately 3%
* Spec Violation: Approximately 4%
* I/O Resource: Approximately 1%
* Security: Approximately 1%
**Scale-SWE:**
* API Mismatch: Approximately 27%
* Logic Error: Approximately 25%
* Input/Boundary: Approximately 20%
* Constructor: Approximately 3%
* Import Error: Approximately 12%
* State Sync: Approximately 6%
* Mutability: Approximately 5%
* Spec Violation: Approximately 7%
* I/O Resource: Approximately 2%
* Security: Approximately 1%
### Key Observations
* Logic Errors are the most prevalent in SWE-Bench-Verified and SWE-smith, with SWE-smith having a significantly higher percentage (approximately 63%).
* Scale-SWE shows a more balanced distribution of API Mismatch, Logic Error, and Input/Boundary errors.
* Constructor, I/O Resource, and Security errors are consistently low across all environments.
* SWE-Gym has a relatively high percentage of Logic Errors and API Mismatch errors.
### Interpretation
The data suggests that different SWE environments exhibit varying error profiles. SWE-smith appears to be particularly prone to Logic Errors, while Scale-SWE shows a more even distribution of common error types. The consistently low percentages of Constructor, I/O Resource, and Security errors across all environments might indicate that these aspects are well-managed or less frequently encountered in these specific contexts. The differences in error distributions could be attributed to the specific characteristics, tools, or methodologies employed in each SWE environment. Further investigation into the nature of these environments and their development processes would be necessary to draw more definitive conclusions.
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Figure 3: Distribution of bug categories across different datasets. The bar chart compares the percentage of ten bug types within SWE-bench Verified, SWE-Gym, SWE-smith, and Scale-SWE. The categories are defined as: API Mismatch (incompatible signatures or parameter errors); Logic Error (flawed conditionals or control flow); Input/Boundary (edge case mishandling or validation failures); Constructor (object initialization errors); Import Error (missing modules or undefined symbols); State Sync (inconsistent internal state); Mutability (unintended side effects); Spec Violation (non-compliance with protocols); I/O Resource (file system or stream errors); and Security (improper scoping or access control).
2.3 Dataset Quality Assurance
Rule-based Check. We implemented a rigorous filtering protocol based on test outcomes. We retained only those instances where: (1) all P2P tests pass and F2P tests fail on the original buggy codebase; and (2) all P2P and F2P tests pass upon application of the golden patch.
Expert Check. We engaged four senior Ph.D. students to manually audit 100 randomly sampled instances employing a cross-validation protocol. The audit confirmed that 94 instances were valid, featuring correct environments, unit tests, and problem statements. We attribute this high quality to three key factors: (1) We leveraged state-of-the-art models (e.g., Gemini 3 Pro) to synthesize accurate problem statements; (2) We employed an LLM-as-a-Judge approach to preemptively discard low-quality repositories and pull requests; and (3) We enforced a fixed execution order for P2P and F2P tests to prevent test pollution, where varying execution orders could otherwise lead to inconsistent results due to environment contamination.
2.4 Dataset Statistics and Trajectory Distillation
Ultimately, our agent-based construction pipeline yielded 100k successfully verified instancesâthe largest verified SWE benchmark to date. Leveraging our extensive collection of GitHub repositories, the resulting dataset achieves substantially greater repository diversity than existing SWE benchmarks, as detailed in Table 2. Unlike previous datasets that typically rely on synthetic generation or limited real-world sources, Scale-SWE is constructed entirely from 5.2k real repositories. This represents a 50% increase in repository count over the next largest real-world benchmark (SWE-rebench with 3.5k repositories). This scale and diversity ensure that our benchmark better reflects the complexity and variety of real-world software engineering tasks.
The statistical characteristics of Scale-SWE are presented in Table 1. The dataset presents non-trivial software engineering challenges. The median instance requires modifications to at least 3 files and the addition of 43 lines of code, reflecting the task complexity. For evaluation robustness, instances contain an average of over 200 Pass-to-Pass (P2P) tests (median: 68), providing strong protection against regression, while an average of 5.69 Fail-to-Pass (F2P) tests per instance validates whether the LLM successfully resolves the specific issue.
To construct the training corpus, we distilled agent trajectories from a subset of 25k instances using the high-performance expert model DeepSeek-V3.2. For each instance, we conducted five independent sampling trials with a temperature of 0.95 and a maximum budget of 100 interaction turns. A trajectory was considered valid only if it culminated in a submission that passed all unit tests. This pipeline produced 71k high-quality trajectories totaling approximately 3.5 billion tokens. To ensure a fair comparison, we applied the identical pipeline to collect trajectories for SWE-Smith and SWE-Gym.
Figure 3 highlights the superior diversity of Scale-SWE. Synthetic datasets like SWE-smith exhibit a strong bias towards Logic Errors, failing to capture the intricacies of API Mismatches or State Synchronization issues common in large codebases. Similarly, SWE-Gym, despite being real-world sourced, suffers from low variety due to its restriction to only 11 repositories.
Conversely, Scale-SWE achieves a highly balanced distribution across all ten bug categories. By leveraging 5.2k real-world repositories and an automated environment-building pipeline, Scale-SWE effectively captures a wide array of defect typesâfrom Constructor errors to Security flaws. This validates that scaling the source repositories and automating the execution pipeline are critical for synthesizing training data that faithfully represents real-world software evolution.
We adopt the bug taxonomy proposed in BugPilot [Sonwane et al., 2025] and employ DeepSeek v3.2 to automatically annotate the training instances.
Table 2: Comparison of Scale-SWE with existing software engineering (SWE) benchmarks. We contrast datasets across key dimensions: the number of executable instancesâdefined as those equipped with a Dockerized environment and validated via Fail-to-Pass (F2P) and Pass-to-Pass (P2P) testsâprimary data source, repository diversity, and trajectory count.
| Dataset | Exec. instances | Primary Source | Repo. | Traj. |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| R2E-Gym [Jain et al., 2025] | 4.6k | Synthetic | 10 | 3.3k |
| SWE-Gym [Pan et al., 2024] | 2.4k | Real | 11 | 491 |
| SWE-smith [Yang et al., 2025a] | 50k | Synthetic | 128 | 5k |
| SWE-Mirror [Wang et al., 2025a] | 60k | Synthetic | 40 | 12k |
| SWE-rebench [Badertdinov et al., 2025] | 7.5k | Real | 3.5k | N/A |
| Scale-SWE | 100k | Real | 5.2k | 71k |
Table 3: Performance comparison on SWE-bench Verified. We categorize models into proprietary systems, open-source methods, and size-matched baselines.
| Models | Base Model | SWE-bench (V) |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Proprietary Models | | |
| GPT-5.2 Thinking [OpenAI, 2025] | - | 80.0 |
| Claude Sonnet 4.5 [Anthropic, 2025b] | - | 77.2 |
| Gemini 3 Pro [Google, 2025] | - | 76.2 |
| MiniMax-M2.1 [MiniMax AI, 2025] | - | 74.0 |
| GLM-4.7 [Zhipu AI, 2025] | - | 73.8 |
| DeepSeek-V3.2 [Liu et al., 2025] | - | 73.1 |
| Kimi K2 Thinking [Team et al., 2025a] | - | 71.3 |
| Open Source Methods | | |
| SWE-Gym-32B [Pan et al., 2024] | Qwen-2.5 coder | 20.6 |
| SWE-Fixer-72B [Xie et al., 2025] | Qwen2.5-72B | 32.8 |
| R2E-Gym-32B [Jain et al., 2025] | Qwen-2.5-Coder | 34.4 |
| SWE-rebench-72B [Golubev et al., 2025] | Qwen2.5-72B-Instruct | 39.0 |
| SWE-smith-32B [Yang et al., 2025a] | Qwen2.5-32B | 40.2 |
| SWE-RL [Wei et al., 2025] | Llama3-70B | 41.0 |
| Skywork-SWE-32B [Zeng et al., 2025] | Qwen2.5-Coder-32B-Instruct | 47.9 |
| SWE-Mirror-LM-32B [Wang et al., 2025a] | Qwen2.5-Coder-32B-Instruct | 52.2 |
| SWE-Lego-32B [Tao et al., 2026] | Qwen3-32B | 52.6 |
| KAT-Dev-32B [Zhan et al., 2025] | - | 62.4 |
| Models of the same size | | |
| Qwen3-30B-A3B-Instruct [Team, 2025] | - | 22.0 |
| Qwen3-Coder-30B-A3B-Instruct [Team, 2025] | - | 51.6 |
| GLM-4.7-Flash-30A3B [Zhipu AI, 2026] | - | 59.2 |
| Our Model | | |
| Scale-SWE-Agent | Qwen3-30B-A3B-Instruct | 64.0 |
3 Experiments
3.1 Experiment Setup
Agent Scaffolding. We employed OpenHands [Wang et al., 2025b], an open-source, event-driven platform, as the unified agent framework for all experiments. OpenHands facilitates LLM agents to iteratively edit files, execute shell commands, and browse the web within sandboxed containers. We selected this framework due to its proven ability to establish robust and reproducible baselines on benchmarks such as SWE-Bench.
Agent Post-training. We perform post-training on the Qwen3-30B-A3B-Instruct [Team, 2025] base model. The training process is configured with a learning rate of 1e-5, a batch size of 128, and a warmup ratio of 0.05, supporting a maximum context length of 131,072. Also, we apply loss masking to restrict loss computation solely to assistant turns that result in well-formed actions [Team et al., 2025b, Chen et al., 2025].
Evaluation Benchmarks and Metrics Our evaluation is conducted on SWE-bench Verified [Chowdhury et al., 2024], a benchmark comprising 500 high-quality, human-curated Python software issues. We report the Resolved Rate (%), representing the proportion of instances for which the model generates a correct solution. Notably, although the models were trained with a sequence length of 131,072, we extended the context limit to 262,144 during inference to handle larger inputs.
3.2 Experiment Results
As shown in Table 3, the Scale-SWE Agent demonstrates superior performance on the SWE-bench Verified. First, regarding the impact of our scaling strategy, Scale-SWE Agent achieves a remarkable 42.0% absolute improvement over its base model, Qwen3-30B-A3B-Instruct, boosting the pass rate from 22.0% to 64.0%. Second, in comparison to models of the same size, our method significantly outperforms strong competitors, including Qwen3-Coder (51.6%) and GLM-4.7-Flash (59.2%). Furthermore, Scale-SWE Agent exhibits exceptional efficiency, surpassing models with significantly larger parameter counts, such as SWE-RL (Llama3-70B) and SWE-Fixer-72B. Notably, it also exceeds the previous state-of-the-art open-source method, KAT-Dev-32B (62.4%), and outperforms recent specialist models like SWE-Mirror and SWE-Lego by a margin of over 11%. These results validate the effectiveness of scaling up SWE-style data for enhancing software engineering capabilities.
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### Visual Description
## Density Plot: Token Count and Turns Distribution
### Overview
The image contains two density plots, one above the other. Both plots compare the distribution of three different datasets: "SWE-Gym", "SWE-smith", and "Scale-SWE". The top plot shows the density distribution with respect to "Token Count", while the bottom plot shows the density distribution with respect to "Turns (tool call)".
### Components/Axes
**Top Plot:**
* **Title:** Implicit, but represents density distribution of token count.
* **Y-axis:** "Density" with a scale factor of "x10^-5". The y-axis ranges from 0 to 3.
* **X-axis:** "Token Count" ranging from 0 to 120k.
* X-axis markers: 0, 20k, 40k, 60k, 80k, 100k, 120k
* **Legend:** Located in the top-right corner.
* SWE-Gym (Blue)
* SWE-smith (Orange)
* Scale-SWE (Green)
**Bottom Plot:**
* **Title:** Implicit, but represents density distribution of turns (tool call).
* **Y-axis:** "Density" with a scale factor of "x10^-2". The y-axis ranges from 0 to 2.
* **X-axis:** "Turns (tool call)" ranging from 0 to 100.
* X-axis markers: 0, 20, 40, 60, 80, 100
* **Legend:** Located in the top-right corner.
* SWE-Gym (Blue)
* SWE-smith (Orange)
* Scale-SWE (Green)
### Detailed Analysis
**Top Plot (Token Count):**
* **SWE-Gym (Blue):** The density rises sharply from 0 to a peak around 20k, then gradually decreases, extending to approximately 100k.
* Peak density: ~3.2 x 10^-5 at ~20k tokens
* **SWE-smith (Orange):** The density rises sharply from 0 to a peak around 20k, then decreases, extending to approximately 80k.
* Peak density: ~2.8 x 10^-5 at ~20k tokens
* **Scale-SWE (Green):** The density rises from 0 to a peak around 40k, then decreases, extending to approximately 120k.
* Peak density: ~2.5 x 10^-5 at ~40k tokens
**Bottom Plot (Turns):**
* **SWE-Gym (Blue):** The density rises sharply from 0 to a peak around 20, then decreases, extending to approximately 100.
* Peak density: ~2.3 x 10^-2 at ~20 turns
* **SWE-smith (Orange):** The density rises sharply from 0 to a peak around 20, then decreases, extending to approximately 80.
* Peak density: ~2.0 x 10^-2 at ~20 turns
* **Scale-SWE (Green):** The density rises from 0 to a peak around 55, then decreases, extending to approximately 100.
* Peak density: ~2.2 x 10^-2 at ~55 turns
### Key Observations
* In both plots, "SWE-Gym" and "SWE-smith" have similar distributions, peaking at lower values compared to "Scale-SWE".
* "Scale-SWE" has a broader distribution in both plots, indicating a wider range of token counts and turns.
* The density values are scaled differently in the two plots (10^-5 vs 10^-2), indicating different magnitudes of density.
### Interpretation
The plots compare the distributions of token counts and turns (tool calls) for three different datasets: SWE-Gym, SWE-smith, and Scale-SWE. The data suggests that SWE-Gym and SWE-smith have a tendency towards lower token counts and fewer turns compared to Scale-SWE. Scale-SWE exhibits a broader distribution, indicating more variability in both token counts and turns. This could imply that Scale-SWE involves more complex or varied interactions, leading to higher token counts and a greater number of tool calls. The difference in density scales between the two plots highlights that the density of turns is significantly higher than the density of token counts, after accounting for the scaling factors.
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Figure 4: Comparison of distillation data statistics across different datasets. We show the probability density functions for (top) total token count and (bottom) the number of tool-call turns.
To evaluate the efficacy of our data compared to existing alternatives, we conducted controlled experiments by performing distillation and SFT on SWE-Gym and SWE-smith using an identical pipeline. As shown in Table 4, Scale-SWE significantly outperforms both baselines. Notably, despite SWE-smith possessing a considerably larger volume of instances than SWE-Gym, it yields slightly inferior performance. This performance gap suggests a diminishing return on purely synthetic data and underscores a critical insight: high-fidelity, real-world data is inherently more effective than massive-scale synthetic alternatives. This finding reinforces the importance of our large-scale âreal-dataâ construction approach.
The distributions of interaction turns and token counts are presented in Figure 4. As illustrated in these figures, Scale-SWE tasks necessitate a greater number of turns for repository exploration and iterative debugging. This observation underscores the high complexity and difficulty inherent in the Scale-SWE dataset.
Table 4: SFT performance comparison on SWE-bench Verified. All models are fine-tuned using the same distillation pipeline to ensure a fair comparison.
| Dataset Name | SWE-bench Verified |
| --- | --- |
| SWE-Gym | 54.8 |
| SWE-smith | 54.6 |
| Scale-SWE | 64.0 |
4 Related Work
SWE Benchmark. Since the introduction of the prevailing software engineering benchmark, SWE-bench [Jimenez et al., 2023] and SWE-bench-Verified [Chowdhury et al., 2024], many other benchmarks have emerged to assess multi-modal [Yang et al., 2024b], multi-language [Zan et al., 2025b, Rashid et al., 2025, Guo et al., 2025a], and long-horizon capabilities [Deng et al., 2025]. These new benchmarks also evaluate whole repository generation [Ding et al., 2025], scientific domain knowledge [Duston et al., 2025], and other specialized abilities [Ma et al., 2025, Shetty et al., 2025]. Collectively, these benchmarks constitute a comprehensive evaluation ecosystem, establishing rigorous standards that assess the multifaceted capabilities required for autonomous software engineering.
SWE Datasets. High-quality data is pivotal for enhancing the programming capabilities of Large Language Models (LLMs). Recently, there has been a surge in repository-level software engineering datasets aimed at addressing complex coding tasks. Efforts to scale up SWE task instances generally fall into two categories. One line of work, including R2E-Gym [Jain et al., 2025], SWE-smith [Yang et al., 2025a], and SWE-Mirror [Wang et al., 2025a], attempts to scale up training data through synthetic generation. Conversely, other works focus on mining real-world issues; for instance, SWE-Gym [Pan et al., 2024] constructed 2,400 executable instances restricted to 11 repositories, while SWE-rebench [Badertdinov et al., 2025] further expanded this collection to 7,500 executable instances.
SWE Models and Agents. Recent advancements have introduced powerful models specialized for SWE tasks, including SWE-RL [Wei et al., 2025], SWE-Swiss [He et al., 2025], Kimi-Dev [Yang et al., 2025b], and KAT-Coder [Zhan et al., 2025]. In parallel, frameworks such as SWE-agent [Yang et al., 2024a], Mini-SWE-Agent [Yang et al., 2024a], OpenHands [Wang et al., 2025b], and MOpenHands [Zan et al., 2025a] serve as effective scaffolds to streamline interactions with development environments.
5 Conclusion
In this work, we introduced Scale-SWE, a sandboxed multiâagent framework that automates the construction of largeâscale, highâquality software engineering data along with executable environments. By orchestrating specialized agents for environment setup, unitâtest generation, and task description synthesis, we processed six million realâworld pull requests to produce Scale-SWE-Dataâa dataset of 100,000 instances that surpasses existing datasets in both scale and repository diversity. We further demonstrated the practical value of the dataset by distilling highâquality trajectories and fineâtuning Qwen3â30B-A3B-Instruct to create Scale-SWE-Agent, which achieves substantial improvements on SWEâBenchâVerifiedâincreasing the resolve rate from 22% to 64%. This advancement underscores the quality and utility of our data for training more capable code agents. We believe Scale-SWE opens new avenues for scalable SWEâstyle dataset construction and provides a rich, openâaccess resource to support the development of more capable LLMâbased software engineering agents. In future work, we aim to not only increase the volume of training data to fully leverage the potential of Scale-SWE-Data but also significantly broaden its linguistic scope. Specifically, we plan to extend our pipeline to support other major programming languagesâsuch as Java, C, C++, and Rustâthereby fostering the development of truly language-agnostic software engineering agents.
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Appendix A Scale-SWE workflow details.
A.1 Scale-SWE workflow Overview.
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### Visual Description
## Diagram: Software Engineering Task Automation Workflow
### Overview
The image is a flowchart illustrating a software engineering task automation workflow. It begins with scraping strategies, proceeds through repository filtering and pull request processing, and culminates in a sandboxed multi-agent system for task execution.
### Components/Axes
* **Header:** "Scrape Strategy" enclosed in a dashed rounded rectangle.
* "SEART (#star, #PRs, ...)" - Green rounded rectangle.
* "Top PyPI Packages" - Green rounded rectangle.
* **Main Flow:**
* "23,000 Repos" - Blue rounded rectangle.
* "Filtered repos" - Blue rounded rectangle.
* "6M pull requests" - Blue rounded rectangle.
* "1M pull requests" - Blue rounded rectangle.
* **Sandboxed Multi-Agent System:** Enclosed in a light gray rounded rectangle.
* "Problem Statement Writer Agent" - Orange rounded rectangle.
* "Unit-test Creator Agent" - Orange rounded rectangle.
* "Environment Builder Agent" - Orange rounded rectangle.
* **Output:**
* "SWE Task Instance" - Red rounded rectangle.
* **Connectors:** Arrows indicating the flow of data and processes.
* **Labels:**
* "LLM as judge" with a diamond symbol next to "Gemini" (appears twice).
* "GitHub API"
### Detailed Analysis
1. **Scrape Strategy:**
* The process begins with two sources: "SEART (#star, #PRs, ...)" and "Top PyPI Packages".
* These are enclosed within a dashed rounded rectangle labeled "Scrape Strategy".
2. **Repository Filtering:**
* The output of the scrape strategy leads to "23,000 Repos".
* These repositories are then filtered using an LLM (Large Language Model) as a judge, specifically "Gemini", resulting in "Filtered repos".
3. **Pull Request Processing:**
* The "Filtered repos" are processed via the "GitHub API" to generate "6M pull requests".
* These pull requests are further filtered using an LLM ("Gemini") to produce "1M pull requests".
4. **Sandboxed Multi-Agent System:**
* The "1M pull requests" feed into a "Sandboxed multi-agent system".
* This system comprises three agents: "Environment Builder Agent", "Unit-test Creator Agent", and "Problem Statement Writer Agent".
* The output of this system is a "SWE Task Instance".
5. **Flow Direction:**
* The flow is generally from left to right, starting with the scrape strategy and ending with the SWE task instance.
* Within the multi-agent system, the flow appears to be from "Environment Builder Agent" to "Unit-test Creator Agent" to "Problem Statement Writer Agent".
### Key Observations
* The diagram highlights the use of LLMs ("Gemini") for judging and filtering at multiple stages of the workflow.
* The number of repositories and pull requests decreases significantly after each filtering stage.
* The multi-agent system is sandboxed, suggesting a controlled environment for task execution.
### Interpretation
The diagram illustrates an automated process for generating software engineering tasks. It begins by gathering data from repositories and packages, filters this data using LLMs, and then uses a multi-agent system to create specific task instances. The use of LLMs for judging and filtering suggests an attempt to prioritize relevant and high-quality data. The sandboxed environment indicates a focus on safety and control during task execution. The reduction in the number of repositories and pull requests at each stage suggests a refinement process aimed at focusing on the most promising candidates for task generation.
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Figure 5: Schematic workflow for automated Scale-SWE task synthesis. From an initial pool of 23k repositories and 6M pull requests, the pipeline utilizes LLM-as-a-judge to filter for quality and relevance. The selected 1M pull requests are then transformed into formal software engineering task instances via a sandboxed orchestration of specialized agents responsible for environment building, test creation, and statement writing.
Appendix B Scale-SWE Task Instance Structure
The structure of a Scale-SWE task instance closely adheres to the SWE-bench standard, with a necessary adaptation to accommodate synthetic data. Specifically, since original developer-written âfail-to-passâ (F2P) tests are not available for all mined instances, we include a field for F2P scripts generated by our unit-test creator agent. A Scale-SWE task instance consists of the following fields:
- instance_id: A unique identifier formatted as {user}_{repo}_pr{id}.
- user: The owner of the GitHub repository.
- repo: The name of the GitHub repository.
- language: The programming language of the codebase (currently Python).
- workdir: The working directory path within the environment.
- image_url: The URL of the pre-built Docker image for the task.
- patch: The ground-truth patch (Golden Patch) from the corresponding pull request.
- pr_commit: The commit hash of the pull request.
- parent_commit: The commit hash of the parent commit (base state).
- problem_statement: The issue description conveying the bug, provided to the model as input.
- f2p_patch: The developer-written test patch containing tests that fail before the fix (if available).
- f2p_script: The synthetic reproduction script generated by our unit-test creator agent (used when f2p_patch is absent).
- FAIL_TO_PASS: A list of unit tests that fail when applied to the buggy version but pass after the fix.
- PASS_TO_PASS: A list of unit tests that pass in both the buggy and fixed versions (regression tests).
- github_url: The URL of the original GitHub repository.
- pre_commands: Commands executed immediately upon entering the container to revert future commit information and prevent data leakage.
Appendix C Implementation Details
The hyperparameters for SFT are detailed in Table 5.
Table 5: Key hyperparameters in the SFT phase.
| Hyperparameter | Value |
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| Learning Rate | 1e-5 |
| Base model | Qwen3-30B-A3B |
| Batch size | 128 |
| Maximum Context Length | 131,072 |
| Warmup ratio | 0.05 |
| LR scheduler type | Cosine |
| Epoch | 3 |
Appendix D Anti-hack Strategy
To ensure the integrity of the SWE-bench evaluation, we implement an anti-leak strategy to prevent the LLM from accessing ground truth solutions via Git history (e.g., using commands like git log --all). The following sanitization script is executed immediately after initializing the environment container:
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2 git clean - fd - e â*.egg-infoâ - e â.toxâ - e â.venvâ && git checkout {parent_commit}
3 NEW_BRANCH = "swe_bench_clean_main"
4 CURRENT_HEAD = $ (git rev - parse HEAD)
5 git stash - a
6 git clean - fd
7 git reset -- hard $CURRENT_HEAD
8 git stash pop || echo "No ⣠stash ⣠to ⣠apply ⣠or ⣠conflict ⣠occurred"
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10 git config user. email "pre-agent@swalm.local" && git config user. name "Pre-Agent" && git add . && git commit - m "pre-agent ⣠commit"
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13 CURRENT_3_PRIME = $ (git rev - parse HEAD)
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15 git for - each - ref -- format = "%(refname)" refs / remotes / | xargs - I {} git update - ref - d {}
16 git tag - l | xargs - r git tag - d
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18 rm - f . git / packed - refs
19 rm - f . git / ORIG_HEAD . git / FETCH_HEAD . git / MERGE_HEAD . git / CHERRY_PICK_HEAD . git / refs / stash
20 rm - rf . git / logs /
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22 git update - ref refs / heads / $ {NEW_BRANCH} $CURRENT_3_PRIME
23 git symbolic - ref HEAD refs / heads / $ {NEW_BRANCH}
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25 git for - each - ref -- format = "%(refname)" refs / heads / | grep - v "refs/heads/${NEW_BRANCH}" | xargs - I {} git update - ref - d {}
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27 git gc -- prune = now -- aggressive
Appendix E Prompts in Scale-SWE workflow
Repository filtering prompt
Pull request filtering prompt
Environment builder agent agent
Unit-test creater agent prompt
Problem statement writer agent prompt
Bug type categorization prompt