Where effGen is worked on
The repository, the issue tracker, the chat, and how to cite the work if you build on it.
Where the community is
GitHub
The source, the issue tracker and the releases. Star it, file a bug, or open a pull request.
Discord
Ask a question, show what you built, or work through a problem with someone who has hit it.
Join the serverRelease announcements and project updates, for anyone who follows their tools there.
Follow the pageContribute to effGen
Code, documentation, examples and bug reports are all wanted. The contributing guide covers the development setup, the test lanes and what a pull request needs before it can be merged.
Code
A tool, a provider adapter, a preset, a fix. The contributing guide covers the setup, the style and what a pull request needs.
Documentation
A page that is wrong, a step that is missing, or a sample that no longer runs against the released package.
Examples
A short program that shows the framework doing something the existing examples do not.
Issues
A bug, with the command and the version that reproduce it — or a feature, with the problem behind it.
Community guidelines
Be respectful
Harassment, trolling and personal attacks are not tolerated.
Be helpful
Share what you know, give feedback someone can act on, and answer the people who are new.
Stay on topic
Keep discussions about effGen and building with it. Off-topic posts may be removed.
Show your work
A report carrying the command, the version and the output is one somebody can act on.
Give credit
Credit the author and the source of anything you bring in.
Citing effGen
If effGen is part of your research, cite the paper. It is on arXiv as arXiv:2602.00887, and the benchmark results behind it are on the leaderboard.
@software{srivastava2026effgen,
title={effGen: Enabling Small Language Models as Capable Autonomous Agents},
author={Gaurav Srivastava and Aafiya Hussain and Chi Wang and
Yingyan Celine Lin and Xuan Wang},
year={2026},
eprint={2602.00887},
archivePrefix={arXiv},
primaryClass={cs.CL},
url={https://arxiv.org/abs/2602.00887},
}Licence
effGen is released under the Apache 2.0 licence: use it commercially, modify it and redistribute it, with a patent grant, provided you keep the notice and state what you changed.
Read the licenceSecurity reports go through SECURITY.md, not the public issue tracker.
Come and say hello
Questions go to Discord, bugs and feature requests to the issue tracker, and code to a pull request.