Replit Agent
Basic information
Website: https://docs.replit.com/replitai/agent
Short description: The Replit Agent builds software projects using natural language prompts provided by users.
Intended uses: What does the developer say it’s for? Use cases include “1) Scaffold a new project from scratch; 2) Build and deploy a full-stack application; 3) Automate routine coding tasks; 4) Debug code with AI assistance; 5) Optimize and refactor code; 6) Add features to an existing app; 7) Learn while you build; 8) Generate documentation; 9) Create a database and connect it to your app; 10) Deploy applications to the cloud” [source]
Date(s) deployed: September 2024 [source]
Developer
Website: https://docs.replit.com/category/replit-ai
Legal name: Replit, Inc [source]
Entity type: Corporation [source]
Country (location of developer or first author’s first affiliation): Incorporation: Delaware, USA (Replit, Inc (6008239)) [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? Unknown
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’? Common observation space is user input and outcome of agent actions.
Action space/tools: What direct actions can the system take? Unknown
User interface: How do users interact with the system? “Replit Agent is a coding assistant built right into the Replit IDE” [source]
Development cost and compute: What is known about the development costs? Unknown
Guardrails and oversight
Accessibility of components:
- Weights: Are model parameters available? Unknown
- Data: Is data available? Unknown
- Code: Is code available? Replit has source code for most of the products it offers [source], along with a repository for available LLMs [source]. However there is no source code about the Replit Agent and whether their own models were used to create it.
- 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? They have staff who can report content that violates Replit’s Terms, Community Standards, or Privacy Policy [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? Serious violations may lead to users getting banned from Replit [source].
Evaluation
Notable benchmark evaluations: Unknown
Bespoke testing: Unknown
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
Ecosystem information
Interoperability with other systems: What tools or integrations are available? None highlighted in particular for the Replit Agent. However, Replit has many integrations available [source].
Usage statistics and patterns: Are there any notable observations about usage? “The Replit Agent is currently an experimental product” and “currently available through an early access program” [source]
Additional notes
None