ENH: Feature request / Idea: Custom CodeAgent: Codex, Claude Code, OpenHeands, Copilot etc #1908
Description
Problem
Instead of competing with SotA Coding Agents that focus on code generation, Smolagents could benefit from integrating with them.
While Smolagents is excellent in creating a general agentic framework, enforcing the security limitations of the produced code, retry mechanisms, and code output verification, it can leverage SotA Coding Agents' superior capabilities in producing high-quality code and testing it.
The Code Agent should be able to use state-of-the-art external coding agents on tests like those listed in the well-established and respected SWE-Bench Verified benchmarking.
Proposed solution
Provide a CustomCodeAgent that could integrate with OpenHands, Codex, Claude Code, Copilot, SWE-agent, TRAE-Agent, Refact, etc.
Is this not possible with the current options.
Currently, CodeAgnet is only a SmolAgent implementation.
Alternatives considered
Run with 3rd party Code Agent and then provide the results as a context or create a custom LLM wrapper. Which is suboptimal.
Additional context (optional)
The listed Coding agents may work locally as CLI, may be imported as a module, or consumed remotely via API.
Checklist
- I have searched the existing issues and have not found a similar feature request.
- I have verified that this feature is not already implemented in the latest version.
- I am willing to work on this feature and submit a pull request. (see my PR)