Building Kodiak: An Open-Source Autonomous AI Software Engineer (Looking for Contributors)

Sham Ganeshan S.B — Fri, 24 Jul 2026 17:14:25 +0000

Over the last few weeks, I've been building Kodiak, an open-source AI engineering platform with one long-term goal:

An autonomous AI software engineer capable of understanding a repository, planning engineering work, writing code, validating changes, and eventually creating production-ready pull requests.

This isn't another chatbot.

It isn't another wrapper around an LLM.

Kodiak is being built as an engineering system where multiple components work together to solve real software development problems.

The Vision

Imagine opening a repository and simply asking:

"Fix Issue #27."

Instead of only generating code, the system would:

Clone the repository
Analyze the project structure
Understand dependencies
Build long-term memory
Search documentation automatically
Break the task into smaller engineering steps
Choose the correct tools
Generate code
Execute tests
Fix failures
Learn from previous executions
Request human approval when necessary
Open a detailed pull request

That's the direction Kodiak is heading.

Current Tech Stack
Python
FastAPI
PostgreSQL
Redis
ChromaDB
Celery
Docker
SQLAlchemy
Alembic
Typer CLI
Current Progress

So far Kodiak includes:

Authentication
Project management
Repository management
Task system
Background workers
REST API
Memory foundation
Docker deployment
Database models
CLI foundation

The project is still in active development, but the architecture is becoming much more modular.

What I'm Building Next

The next milestones include:

Repository indexing
Semantic code search
Multi-agent planning
Long-term memory
GitHub Issue execution
Autonomous code generation
Pull request generation
Plugin ecosystem
Local execution support
Looking for Contributors

I'm looking for developers interested in:

AI Agents
FastAPI
Backend Engineering
PostgreSQL
SQLAlchemy
Celery
Docker
CLI Development
Testing
Documentation Whether you're an experienced engineer or someone wanting to contribute to open source, every contribution helps move the project forward.

I'd Love Feedback

*I'm especially interested in hearing:
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What features would make you actually use a system like this?
What parts of the architecture would you redesign?
What problems do current AI coding tools still fail to solve?
If you were contributing, where would you start?

Constructive criticism is just as valuable as code contributions.

GitHub

Repository:
https://github.com/ShamGaneshan2008/Kodiak

If the vision sounds interesting, feel free to open an issue, submit a pull request, or simply share your thoughts.

Let's build something the open-source AI community can genuinely use.

DEV Community: Sham Ganeshan S.B

Building Kodiak: An Open-Source Autonomous AI Software Engineer (Looking for Contributors)

The Vision

The next milestones include:

I'm looking for developers interested in: