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OpenDevin

What's going on everybody? Josh Pook here. In today's video, we're going to be looking at Open Devin, an open source free alternative to a tool like Devon by Cognition. If you're not familiar with Devon, we saw this a couple few months ago basically. As you can see, it has a gooey interface. It has a shell, a browser, an editor, a planner, and it's essentially somewhat of an alternative to a tool maybe like AER or Claude Dev or Claude Engineer, essentially helping you with your coding projects. 

So there is an open-source alternative to this, which we're going to cover. Show you how to install it. Let's dive right in. 

All right guys, so here is the GitHub repo for Open Devon. All links, as always, will be in the description down below, as well as their documentation right here. So there's different ways you can configure it and whatnot, but we'll quickly go over some of the basics with Open Devon. You can see they have a Discord channel, Slack channel, and their getting started guide. 

If we check out their docs, you can see that there's, like I said, a bunch of different ways to configure it depending on what LLM you're using. You can use AMA agents and capabilities. This agent implements the code act idea paper tweet that Pap or idea. There's the paper and the tweet there that consolidates LLM agent actions into a unified code action space for both simplicity and performance. See paper for our details. This conceptual idea is illustrated below. At each turn, the agent can converse, communicate with humans in natural language for asking, ask for clarification.

Confirmation Etc code Act choose to perform The Code by executing the code execute any Linux bash command execute valid python code with an interactive python interpreter. This is simulated through bash command see plugin system below for more details and then plug-in system. We got Jupiter plugin uh swe agent tool so powerful bash command line for tool for software development tasks introduced by swe agent um so demo and you can see the different actions here uh action CMD run action python run sell action Echo action action finish action agent talk action observations methods uh agent planner all right and all that good stuff um event stream runtime.

So yeah basically just going through kind of the AR architecture and how it works. We're not going to go through the indepth um you know break walk walk through of how it actually works. We're just going to actually install it. So like I said there's a couple different ways to install I'm just going to show you the way I did it but um you can see I really just used what they have right here. 

So open Dev works best with Docker version um whatever uh 26 and then Docker desktop you must be using Linux Mac or uh WSL on windows. So that okay so that's kind of funny because I actually was having some issues I was trying to install it on a Windows machine and then I I didn't even read this like this part right here but I was just like let me just use WSL cuz I saw that this was a uh a Linux command. So I basically just tried to convert that to a Windows command and I was encountering some errors and then I'm just like screw it let me just try WSL and then that it worked right. 

So you don't know what WSL.

Is basically it's essentially a Windows subsystem for Linux. So I'm not going to cover out get that set up. But yeah you can get that set up so you can basically have like umuntu pretty much any windows or Linux drro on your windows. So you're going to want to have that. You're also going to want to have doer.

Of course and yeah those are the main things we covered. Docker many times it's a great great tool to use right. So the only thing I did to change this is I just changed the port right here from 3000 to like 3004 I believe just because I'm already using 3000 right now. 

So anyways once you do that you can literally just copy this command and go into your terminal. Okay once you're in your terminal um for me I'm using uh the terminal app and I just simply go here and then I click on my Ubuntu uh WSL um instance or my terminal for that because I'm not using the Windows obviously like I said. 

And then all you do is you just copy that and you paste it in the terminal. It's one command very simple to set up and boom once you do that you'll get something that looks like this. Well actually you will get uh something that looks like this initially. Well it's basically just right here settings so you can change around some of the configuration here. 

Um you can see like the agent uh for some reason I think it's because I'm currently in a um task I believe it's not letting me change it but you can change the model you can change the co the agent here. There's a bunch of different options there's a bunch of different models like there's a lot. 

So yeah you can pretty much use I mean I haven't tested all them right. They say they have a llama they say they have all that good stuff but um so yeah they have like any scale they have uh I saw like there's like a huge amount. I can't let me just see if I can uh maybe see that in just a second. 

Okay so I just started a new session as you can see we got the code agent so we got okay so this makes a lot of sense.

Okay so we got browsing agent. So I wonder okay so code agent brows uh browsing agent. I'm still actually getting familiar with uh open Devon here. And you can you you may have just heard that sound. You can turn toggle on or off the sound. But first off I just want to say I really like the gooey the UI. Um to be honest just see where is so yeah I really like the gooey. Um it's actually really nice like if you been following this channel you see me do reviews on other coding tools such as AER continue Dev claw Dev. I'm going to be doing a lot more as well. Um covered a bunch but this is some more. This is like unique. I mean I guess it's not really unique cuz it's like a clone essentially of Devon but it's a unique open-source one basically which I like. 

Where it has the code editor the browser even have Jupiter python right here. Um and let's I don't know exactly um where to go ahead like if I wanted to delete these right here. So I'm still learning um how to use this specific tool. As you can see I was doing some tests earlier. I just got it to write a task manager app. Okay so you can see there's a terminal here but let's go ahead. Um so yeah you have your different agents here and then you also have your models right. So we can see there is a lot of different models like Amazon any scale Azure um quad and then we got coh here datab bricks in deep infra um Gemini Gro meta mistro AMA open Ro rotor um text edings vert Tex AI um whisper. We got pretty much almost anyone you can think of. You put your API key here you can select your language enable confirmation mode. Don't know exactly what that is but I just kept it uh off. 

Okay so let me just try this.

Browsing agent save um create a task manager app. Let's just see so you can ask it questions like so. Okay so make sure you're using the coding agent um when doing this. So now we're using coding agent server is here. Would you like me to browse the server homepage? So let me see if I okay so this is where I encountered like issue before cuz it will basically create the code here which I could obviously just like import into it IDE run it myself but I haven't. 

And then here's the Jupiter notebook which is pretty cool. I really like how it has like these functions. It's actually really awesome um the browser right here um basically saying hey it's running on Port 5000 you can access this. Would you like me to browse the server's homepage and show the content? So if I just say like yes I was kind of getting like an infinite Loop type issue so I'm asking the browser agent for help. 

Oh okay okay is it actually working this time? In order to accomplish my goal I need to ensure the server is running accessible. Okay it suggests that the current server might not be running or there's an issue with the URL. So yeah I don't know I don't know maybe if you guys see I'm doing something incorrect here let me know or if it's just a bug I don't know um yeah but essentially it's like won't let it the brow. 

I'm having issues with the browsing functionality. It keeps going in an infinite Loop and I'm pretty sure it's just like wasting my credits right now my tokens. So let me just pause this task. Yeah encounter too many issues start new task and then when I start a new task here I believe I still have the same files. I think if not whatever but um yeah yeah I'll uh I'm.

Going to do some checking around and see if I can figure some stuff out in the docks or maybe in the community if anyone else had this issue. Um, if I do, I'm going to add that part on to this video. If not, if I can't find anything, then I'm just going to upload this and uh yeah. If you guys have any uh you know exactly what I may be doing incorrect here, if not maybe it's just a bug. 

But other than that, in terms of writing the code, um I mean it looks I I haven't tested this but it look looks I mean fairly simple task manager. We can see Server log. Okay, so we got a server log here debug mode. This doesn't this is development server do not use this. Okay, running on here. Okay, let me try local poost. I don't think it's actually running now so um yeah I don't know exactly what the issue is. 

Uh, I will try to troubleshoot and see if not could just be a bug. But other than that, I do think it I do think this tool has um you know a lot of it do it does have a lot of potential if if they fix some of these issues. I don't know maybe unless I'm doing something wrong but if if this was working fully functional and and what not I think it'd be really really useful. 

I really like the goo gooey. I think it's different. Um, I think I think it's good to have a lot of options. I think it's good to have the guey. I also think it's good to have like the co-pilot uh you know artifacts type extension or whatever in your own IDE. Um, in terms of actually like you doing projects and working on a day-to-day basis, it's just uh easier that way. If you could have something where it has both, I mean I think that'd be really cool. 

But other than that guys don't want to spend too much time.

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