BlackBox Coding Agent
Basic Information
Website: https://www.blackbox.ai/
Short description: "BLACKBOX AI is an AI coding assistant that helps developers by providing real-time code completion, documentation, and debugging suggestions. BLACKBOX AI is also integrated with a variety of developer tools, making it easy to use within your existing workflow." [source]
Intended uses: What does the developer state that the system is intended for?: General purpose coding and software engineering assistance.
Date(s) deployed: Deployed December 1, 2024 [source]
Developer
Website: https://www.blackbox.ai/
Legal name: Course Connect Inc [source]
Entity type: Corporation [source]
Country (location of developer or first author's first affiliation): Quebec, Canada [source]
Safety policies: What safety and/or responsibility policies are in place?: None
System Components
Backend model(s): What model(s) are used to power the system?: Unknown
Public model specification: Is there formal documentation on the system’s intend...: None
Description of reasoning, planning, and memory implementation: How does the syst...: Unknown
Observation space: What is the system able to observe while 'thinking'?: Unknown other than the codebase that it is working in [source]
Action space/tools: What direct actions can the system take?: Unknown other than code-writing suggestions and messages to the user. It is unclear whether the system can run code [source].
User interface: How do users interact with the system?: Through chats and commands in a VSCode extension [source]
Development cost and compute: What is known about the development costs?: Unknown
Guardrails & Oversight
Accessibility of components
Weights: Are model parameters available?: Unknown
Data: Is data available?: Unknown
Code: Is code available?: Closed source
Documentation: Is documentation available?: Available (but minimal) [source]
Scaffolding: Is system scaffolding available?: Closed source
Controls and guardrails: What notable methods are used to protect against harmfu...: None
Monitoring and shutdown procedures: Are there any notable methods or protocols t...: None
Customer and usage restrictions: Are there know-your-customer measures or other ...: None
Evaluation
Notable benchmark evaluations (e.g., on SWE-Bench Verified): 49% on SWE-Bench Lite [source]
Bespoke testing (e.g., demos): None
Safety: Have safety evaluations been conducted by the developers? What were the ...: None
Publicly reported external red-teaming or comparable auditing
Personnel: Who were the red-teamers/auditors?: None
Scope, scale, access, and methods: What access did red-teamers/auditors have and...: None
Findings: What did the red-teamers/auditors conclude?: None