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SWE-1.6

CognitionProprietaryPending Human Review

SWE-1.6 is Cognition’s next coding model, first served as a limited-user preview on March 1 and generally released in Windsurf on April 7, 2026. It uses the same underlying pretrained model as SWE-1.5, but the production release was post-trained anew to improve both coding capability and interaction behavior. Training discourages overthinking, repeated reasoning loops, and unnecessary terminal use, while encouraging parallel tool calls. The earlier preview and production checkpoint are grouped under this identity, with their behavioral differences made explicit. Standard and faster serving options provide the same model intelligence; neither establishes publicly downloadable weights or a standalone model API.

2026-03-01
Undisclosed
Proprietary

Specifications

Architecture
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License
Proprietary
Type
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Modalities
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Benchmark Scores

Advanced Specifications

Model Family
SWE
API Access
Not Available
Chat Interface
Available
Variants
SWE-1.6 PreviewApril 7 production checkpointStandard servingFast serving

Capabilities & Limitations

Capabilities
agentic codingparallel tool callsadaptive reasoning
Known Limitations
Integrated product access does not establish a general model inference APIEvaluation results depend on harnesses, task sets, and effortGenerated changes require execution and reviewPreview and production checkpoints have materially different interaction behaviorImproved training does not eliminate overthinking or tool errors
Notable Use Cases
interactive repository workcoding-agent workflowsmulti-step software changes
Function Calling Support
Yes
Tool Use Support
Yes

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