Generative AI coding agents are entering the open-source supply chain, yet their diverse and often invisible traces leave their prevalence poorly understood. We introduce a multi-layered detection framework that integrates configuration-file scanning, commit-message analysis, author-identity matching, and bot-signature lookup across World of Code (180M+ Git repositories), classifying agent traces into four behavioral types.
arXiv:2606. 18168v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Software practitioners increasingly use AI coding agents that generate test code alongside production code in open source pull requests (PRs).
By Dipayan Banik, Kowshik Chowdhury, Shazibul Islam Shamim
arXiv:2607. 14037v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Agentic coding tools are increasingly capable of generating and submitting pull requests (PRs) to software projects, introducing new forms of human-agent collaboration in software development.
By Maliha Noushin Raida, Daqing Hou
arXiv:2608. 05204v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: LLM-agent ecosystems are rapidly growing around reusable skills: mixed-modality packages of metadata, natural-language instructions, code, tools, references, and operational workflows.
By Jialuo Chen, Minghe Wang, Lingqi Jiang, Jianan Ma, Xinhao Deng, Xiaohu Du, Ruixiao Lin, Yunhao Feng, Linkang Du, Jingyi Wang
Agentic coding tools are increasingly capable of generating and submitting pull requests (PRs) to software projects, introducing new forms of human-agent collaboration in software development. While prior studies have examined PR-level outcomes of agent-generated contributions, less is known about how agentic coding tools are adopted and managed at the project level.
arXiv:2606. 28235v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Autonomous coding agents now open and merge pull requests in shared repositories at scale, and the field evaluates them the way it has always evaluated components, one agent at a time, on isolated benchmark tasks.
By Daniel Russo
arXiv:2608. 13884v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: The rapid adoption of AI coding assistants and autonomous agentic development systems has coincided with major changes in the pace and structure of open-source software engineering.
By Jiada Li, Xuesong Ye, Olamide Olowoniyi
arXiv:2606. 19616v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Autonomous coding agents now open millions of pull requests, yet large-scale studies find their PRs are produced faster but accepted less often - a coordination and trust gap that pull-request-level telemetry cannot explain.
By Dipankar Sarkar
arXiv:2603. 16572v2 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Agent skills extend local AI agents, such as Claude Code and OpenClaw, with additional functionality.
By Florian Holzbauer, David Schmidt, Gabriel Gegenhuber, Sebastian Schrittwieser, Johanna Ullrich
arXiv:2606. 26924v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: LLM coding harnesses grant agents broad file and shell access, yet the configuration layer that steers them -- rules files, agent definitions, IDE-specific markdown -- is largely unmanaged.
By Padmaraj Madatha
arXiv:2606. 02240v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Indirect prompt injection in tool-use agents is a concrete production threat: LLM agents read from integrations (third-party services such as Gmail, Salesforce, or Jira accessed through tool calls) whose response content the user neither writes nor controls.
By Hiskias Dingeto, Will Leeney
arXiv:2606. 13298v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: AI coding tools are now used by a majority of developers, and agentic use of these tools has popularized the practice colloquially called "vibe coding".
By Oliver Aleksander Larsen, Mahyar T. Moghaddam