Overview
Open-source command-line coding agent from Alibaba’s Qwen team, optimized for Qwen3-Coder models with agentic file editing and tool use.
Details
Qwen Code is an open-source CLI coding agent maintained by Alibaba’s Qwen team, forked from Gemini CLI and optimized for Qwen3-Coder models. It supports agentic loops for editing code across a repository, executing shell commands, browsing files, and integrating with MCP tools. Qwen Code is OpenAI-API compatible, so it can also drive other models, but it is tuned for Qwen-specific function calling and long-context features. It pairs naturally with Alibaba Cloud’s hosted Qwen API.
Tags
coding, cli, autonomous-agent, open-source