Summary

FrogNano is a 4B SWE agent trained entirely by RL post-training on ~1,500 environments with synthetically generated tasks; tasks are synthesized online at each checkpoint, calibrated to the current learnability frontier, with no distillation from larger models. The result is a competitive compact coding agent trained on a self-generated curriculum.

Why it matters
The recipe removes the teacher-model dependency from small coding-agent training: environments plus online task synthesis at the learnability frontier replace distillation. For edge/local coding agents this is a cheap, self-generating training loop.
Technical details
Arxiv 2609.07925 (Wed 9 Sep digest, announced 2026-09-10T00:00Z)
Method RL post-training only; ~1,500 environments; tasks synthesized online per checkpoint, calibrated to learnability frontier; no large-model distillation
Results competitive compact (4B) SWE agent (details in paper)
Code not stated in abstract
Tags
coding-agentrl-trainingsynthetic-datasmall-models