Devika is an agentic AI software engineer that understands high-level human instructions, breaks them into steps, researches relevant information, and writes code to achieve the given objective using large language models, planning and reasoning algorithms, and web browsing.
Devika is intended to assist with complex coding tasks with minimal human guidance — such as creating new features, fixing bugs, or developing entire projects from scratch — acting as an AI pair programmer. It aims to be an open-source alternative to Devin.
Devika is described as an "Agentic AI Software Engineer" that breaks high-level instructions into steps, researches, browses the web, and writes code "with minimal human guidance." The code-derived surface confirms an autonomous agentic workflow: it executes shell commands, performs filesystem writes, and makes outbound calls to multiple LLM and search APIs. There is no evidence of a code-enforced per-step confirmation gate, so it operates as a multi-step autonomous loop (Tier 4). No self-modification/agent-spawning evidence to push to Tier 5.