arXiv:2609. 00546v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Agent systems are commonly described by the model and harness that currently produce their behavior.
By Zhenyu Zhao (Independent Researcher), Roy Zhao (Paul G. Allen School of Computer Science & Engineering, University of Washington)
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:2608.21964v1 Announce Type: new
Abstract: Large language model (LLM) agents increasingly operate over evolving software repositories, where success depends on repository-specific procedural kno...
By Chenyuan Duan, Ge Shi, Zineng Mao, Ge Zhang, Hao Liang, Yinzhu Piao, Yuchen Wu, Zhixin Yao, Kaiyu Huang, Wenhao Huang, Linzhuang Sun, Shen Yan, Wentao Zhang
arXiv:2606. 09751v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Foundation models are moving from response generation into operational roles.
By Arsalan Shahid, Gordon Suttie, Philip Black
The paper investigates how coordination among AI agents serving different users degrades performance compared to a single coordinating agent. Across five advanced models and 77 scenarios in four shared-resource environments—API key budgets, clinic calendars, personal assistant bookings, and merge queues—the study finds that multi‑agent teams consistently underperform, sometimes collapsing entirely, and that even with communication channels coordination overhead remains significant. The authors identify specific failure modes such as stalling, action overriding, and claim fabrication, and propose environment‑specific mitigations like team leads and procedural instructions, while releasing the MAMUBench benchmark for future research.
By Sahan Paliskara, Nattaput Namchittai, Andrew Lampinen
arXiv:2607. 10487v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: LLM agents can commit durable effects from authority evidence that was valid earlier in execution: a DOM snapshot, approval epoch, version witness, branch token, or worker result.
By Igor Santos-Grueiro
arXiv:2606. 22504v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Coding agents often receive broad tool access for an entire task, even when a resource is needed only for one subgoal.
By Igor Santos-Grueiro
The paper introduces BSC‑R, a deterministic effect‑boundary mechanism that ties a single‑use commit authorization to the specific action and the semantic state that justified it, aiming to close the proposal‑to‑commit gap in tool‑using language‑model agents. Experiments on 2,847 AgentDojo episodes and 10,302 frozen proposals show that BSC‑R preserves the agent’s original behavior while rejecting unauthorized changes, and further tests on a boundary‑drift experiment and the CONTINUITY suite demonstrate high success rates in valid contexts and robust handling of replay and ambiguous cases. However, broader testing reveals that BSC‑R still allows a 25% invalid‑effect commit rate in a larger attack set, indicating that it provides scoped, not universal, safety.
By Wesley Shu
The paper introduces “Revise”, a runtime system that performs validity-guided, fine-grained recovery for online revisions in structured agent workflows. When a revision arrives, Revise intersects the change with recorded data and control dependencies, propagates the impact through the partially executed DAG, stops invalid work, preserves unaffected progress, and recomputes only the affected region. Experiments on real coding‑agent traces and LangGraph/LLMCompiler applications show that Revise matches a latest‑version oracle, reduces model calls by up to 56%, and improves service‑level objective goodput under load.
By Ruoling Qi, Xuaner Wu, Penghang Liu, Jian Chen, Yirui Liu
arXiv:2604. 13097v3 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Embodied agents increasingly rely on modular capabilities that are installed, upgraded, composed, and governed at runtime, yet the interfaces between these modules are specified only at the level of message types, so integration failures surface only during execution.
By Xue Qin, Simin Luan, Cong Yang, Zhijun Li
arXiv:2606. 14445v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Existing multi-agent software development systems have proposed many forms of agent collaboration, including role-based collaboration and automated code review.
By Minseo Kim
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