Is qwen-code still maintained?

Yes, active. Last change today. Latest release v0.27.3, 2 days ago.

How widely used is qwen-code?

Widely used. 30k stars, 1 year old, by an organization. As with any download, get it from the official repo.

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QwenLM/qwen-code

An open-source AI coding agent that lives in your terminal.

Node.js#agentic#ai#ai-agent#ai-coding

Before you start

Is it free?: YesOpen source (Apache-2.0).
Still maintained?: Yes, activeLast change today. Latest release v0.27.3, 2 days ago.
How widely used?: Widely used30k stars, 1 year old, by an organization. As with any download, get it from the official repo.

Difficulty: Easy
Time: about 5 min
Stars: ★ 30,388
Activity: Updated this month

Saved setup from 49 min ago

Will it work on macOS?

Yes, it installs on your macOS

A ready-made macOS download is in the latest release.

Your system

macOS Windows Linux

Start here

Website ↗qwenlm.github.ioThe project's own site.

Download for macOS

Release v0.27.3 · 11/13/2026 ↗

qwen-code-darwin-arm64.tar.gz

tar.gz · Apple Silicon · 86.0 MB · 194 downloads · best match

Download

Move the extracted binary onto your PATH (e.g. /usr/local/bin). If macOS blocks it: xattr -d com.apple.quarantine <binary>

curl -LO "https://github.com/QwenLM/qwen-code/releases/download/v0.27.3/qwen-code-darwin-arm64.tar.gz"
tar -xzf "qwen-code-darwin-arm64.tar.gz"

Other macOS downloads (3)

qwen-code-darwin-arm64-opentui-preview.tar.gz

tar.gz · Apple Silicon · 79.7 MB · 16 downloads

Download

Move the extracted binary onto your PATH (e.g. /usr/local/bin). If macOS blocks it: xattr -d com.apple.quarantine <binary>

curl -LO "https://github.com/QwenLM/qwen-code/releases/download/v0.27.3/qwen-code-darwin-arm64-opentui-preview.tar.gz"
tar -xzf "qwen-code-darwin-arm64-opentui-preview.tar.gz"

qwen-code-darwin-x64-opentui-preview.tar.gz

tar.gz · Intel · 83.0 MB · 11 downloads

Download

Move the extracted binary onto your PATH (e.g. /usr/local/bin). If macOS blocks it: xattr -d com.apple.quarantine <binary>

curl -LO "https://github.com/QwenLM/qwen-code/releases/download/v0.27.3/qwen-code-darwin-x64-opentui-preview.tar.gz"
tar -xzf "qwen-code-darwin-x64-opentui-preview.tar.gz"

qwen-code-darwin-x64.tar.gz

tar.gz · Intel · 87.2 MB · 48 downloads

Download

Move the extracted binary onto your PATH (e.g. /usr/local/bin). If macOS blocks it: xattr -d com.apple.quarantine <binary>

curl -LO "https://github.com/QwenLM/qwen-code/releases/download/v0.27.3/qwen-code-darwin-x64.tar.gz"
tar -xzf "qwen-code-darwin-x64.tar.gz"

Install with a package manager

Choose one way. Most people should use the recommended one; the rest are other options.

Alternative: install script

curl -fsSL https://qwen-code-assets.oss-cn-hangzhou.aliyuncs.com/installation/install-qwen-standalone.sh | bash

Pipes a remote script into your shell. Read it before running.

Alternative: HomebrewNeeds Homebrew

brew install qwen-code

From the README, exactly as the maintainers wrote it.

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Parts list

1×Node.js 22runtime
1×pnpm pnpm@11.24.0package manager

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Good to know

Monorepo (workspaces) — install from the repo root.
Dockerfile available (base image: docker.io/library/node:22-slim@sha256:83f487e0a63425e5b4d146fb5e5be574bcbe1b7b843d3ebafdd95eaf7767a7e5).
Makefile has a make install target — it may automate most of these steps.
Has AGENTS.md — instructions for coding agents. You can open Claude Code (or another agent) in the cloned folder and ask it to do the setup for you.
Nested projects: docs-site/package.json, integration-tests/concurrent-runner/examples/toy-project/package.json, integration-tests/concurrent-runner/requirements.txt, integration-tests/fixtures/idle-mcp/package.json and 11 more

Details

License: Apache-2.0
Open issues: 2,304
Branch: main

package.json scripts (107)

startnode scripts/start.js
devnode scripts/dev.js
dev:daemonnode scripts/daemon-dev.js
dev:managed-agent-webnpm --workspace packages/web-shell run dev -- --port 5174
dev:managed-agentnode scripts/managed-agent-dev.js
debugcross-env DEBUG=1 node --inspect-brk scripts/start.js
generatenode scripts/generate-git-commit-info.js
generate:settings-schemanode --import tsx/esm scripts/generate-settings-schema.ts
generate:model-catalognode --import tsx/esm scripts/generate-model-catalog.ts
buildcross-env NODE_OPTIONS="--max-old-space-size=6144" node scripts/build.js
build-and-startnpm run build && npm run start
build:vscodenode scripts/build_vscode_companion.js
build:allnpm run build && npm run build:sandbox && npm run build:vscode
build:packagescorepack pnpm -r run build
build:sandboxnode scripts/build_sandbox.js
bundlenpm run generate && node esbuild.config.js && node scripts/copy_bundle_assets.js
testcross-env NODE_OPTIONS="--max-old-space-size=3072" npm run test --workspaces --if-present
test:ci:workspacescross-env NODE_OPTIONS="--max-old-space-size=3072" npm run test:ci --workspaces --if-present --
test:cinpm run test:ci:workspaces && npm run test:scripts
test:releasenpm run test:release:workspaces && npm run test:scripts
test:release:workspacescross-env NODE_OPTIONS="--max-old-space-size=3072" npm run test:ci --workspaces --if-present -- --coverage.enabled=false
test:standalone:runtimesnode scripts/test-standalone-runtimes.mjs
test:standalone:runtimes:cinode scripts/test-standalone-runtimes.mjs --ci
test:scriptsnpm run test:standalone:runtimes:ci && npm run test:scripts:unit --
test:scripts:unitvitest run --config ./scripts/tests/vitest.config.ts

Files we read (13)

.github/workflows/audio-capture-prebuilds.yml

.github/workflows/build-and-publish-image.yml

.github/workflows/desktop-packaging-check.yml

.github/workflows/main-ci-failure-issue.yml

.github/workflows/qwen-ci-flaky-rerun.yml

.nvmrc

CONTRIBUTING.md

Dockerfile

Makefile

README.md

package.json

packages/sdk-python/pyproject.toml

pnpm-workspace.yaml

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