Devin
Basic information
Website: https://web.archive.org/web/20241217150025/https://www.cognition.ai/blog/introducing-devin
Short description: A general-purpose software engineering assistant.
Intended uses: What does the developer say it’s for? Rapid general-purpose coding and software development.
Date(s) deployed: Openly available [source]
Developer
Website: https://web.archive.org/web/20241224121630/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: What model(s) are used to power the system? Variable, including OpenAI o1 [source]
Publicly available model specification: Is there formal documentation on the system’s intended uses and how it is designed to behave in them? None
Reasoning, planning, and memory implementation: How does the system ‘think’? 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 and 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
- Scaffolding: Is system scaffolding available? Closed source
- Documentation: Is documentation available? Available [source]
Controls and guardrails: What notable methods are used to protect against harmful actions? “For complex tasks, Devin offers to wait for your confirmation” [source]. Devin produces worklogs that users can view [source].
Customer and usage restrictions: Are there know-your-customer measures or other restrictions on customers? None
Monitoring and shutdown procedures: Are there any notable methods or protocols that allow for the system to be shut down if it is observed to behave harmfully? Unknown
Evaluation
Notable benchmark evaluations: 13.86% on SWE-Bench [source]
Bespoke testing: Demos [source] [source] [source].
Safety: Have safety evaluations been conducted by the developers? What were the results? 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 what actions did they take? None
- Findings: What did the red-teamers/auditors conclude? None
Additional notes
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