ChatDev
byOpenBMBlisted Jun 3, 2026
ChatDev is a research project from OpenBMB (Tsinghua University) that demonstrates a virtual software company where multiple LLM agents with distinct roles — CEO, CTO, programmer, reviewer, tester — collaborate to build software from a single natural language requirement. It explores how software engineering processes can be fully automated through role-playing agents and structured communication protocols. ChatDev remains an influential research artifact and educational tool for understanding multi-agent systems.
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- Open-source research project; you pay for your own OpenAI API keys
- Model backbone
- GPT-4, GPT-3.5-turbo
- Setup complexity
- Moderate setup
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