GPT Engineer

Specify what you want it to build, the AI asks for clarification, and then builds it.

GPT Engineer is made to be easy to adapt, extend, and make your agent learn how you want your code to look. It generates an entire codebase based on a prompt.

Demo 👶🤖

Project philosophy

Simple to get value
Flexible and easy to add new own "AI steps". See steps.py.
Incrementally build towards a user experience of:
1. high level prompting
2. giving feedback to the AI that it will remember over time
Fast handovers back and forth between AI and human
Simplicity, all computation is "resumable" and persisted to the filesystem

Usage

Choose either stable or development.

For stable release:

pip install gpt-engineer

For development:

sudo apt install make
git clone git@github.com:AntonOsika/gpt-engineer.git
cd gpt-engineer
pip install -e .
- (or: make install && source venv/bin/activate for a venv)

Setup

With an api key that has GPT4 access run:

export OPENAI_API_KEY=[your api key]

Run:

Create an empty folder. If inside the repo, you can run:
- cp -r projects/example/ projects/my-new-project
Fill in the main_prompt file in your new folder
gpt-engineer projects/my-new-project
- (Note, gpt-engineer --help lets you see all available options. For example --steps use_feedback lets you improve/fix code in a project)

Results:

Check the generated files in projects/my-new-project/workspace

Features

You can specify the "identity" of the AI agent by editing the files in the identity folder.

Editing the identity, and evolving the main_prompt, is currently how you make the agent remember things between projects.

Each step in steps.py will have its communication history with GPT4 stored in the logs folder, and can be rerun with scripts/rerun_edited_message_logs.py.

Contributing

We are building the open platform for devs to tinker with and build their personal code-generation toolbox.

If you want to contribute, please check out the roadmap, projects or issues tab in the GitHub repo. You are welcome to read the contributing document and join our Discord 💬.

We are currently looking for more maintainers and community organisers. Email anton.osika@gmail.com if you are interested in an official role.

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