Qwen Code
An open-source AI coding agent for the terminal, editors and desktop, from the Qwen team.
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A Claude Code-style terminal agent that works well with open-weight Qwen models or local inference.
About Qwen Code
Qwen Code is the Qwen team's open-source coding agent for the terminal, with IDE plugins, a desktop app, a web UI, SDKs and chat integrations. It includes auto-memory, auto-skills, subagents, agent teams and MCP, and supports OpenAI, Anthropic, Gemini and Qwen APIs, third-party providers and local models through Ollama or vLLM, switchable at runtime.
Qwen Code is listed in this index written primarily in TypeScript, with 29k stars on GitHub. Its latest recorded repository push was in November 2026; that is not an ASE editorial review date.
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