Devin
Basic Information
Short description: A general-purpose software engineering assistant.
Intended uses: What does the developer state that the system is intended for?: Rapid general-purpose coding and software development.
Date(s) deployed: Openly available [source]
Developer
Website: https://www.cognition.ai/
Legal name: Cognition AI, Inc [source]
Entity type: Corporation [source]
Country (location of developer or first author's first affiliation): Incorporation: Delaware, USA (COGNITION AI, INC. (2875752)) [source]. Business registration: California, USA Cognition AI, Inc. (6224891) [source]. HQ: New York [source]
Safety policies: What safety and/or responsibility policies are in place?: Unknown
System Components
Backend model(s): What model(s) are used to power the system?: Variable, including OpenAI o1 [source]
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'?: Devin operates in a workspace involving a browser, code editor, and shell and is able to observe the history of all [source].
Action space/tools: What direct actions can the system take?: Writing and executing code and queries in its environment browser, editor, and shell [source].
User interface: How do users interact with the system?: An application in which the user provide prompts; monitor the browser, code editor, and shell; and analyze outputs [source].
Development cost and compute: What is known about the development costs?: Unknown
Guardrails & Oversight
Accessibility of components
Weights: Are model parameters available?: N/A; backends various models
Data: Is data available?: N/A; backends various models
Code: Is code available?: Closed source
Documentation: Is documentation available?: Available [source]
Scaffolding: Is system scaffolding available?: Closed source
Controls and guardrails: What notable methods are used to protect against harmfu...: "For complex tasks, Devin offers to wait for your confirmation" [source]. Devin produces worklogs that users can view [source].
Monitoring and shutdown procedures: Are there any notable methods or protocols t...: Unknown
Customer and usage restrictions: Are there know-your-customer measures or other ...: None
Evaluation
Notable benchmark evaluations (e.g., on SWE-Bench Verified): 13.86% on SWE-Bench [source]
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