arXiv AI

Before the Pull Request: Mining Multi-Agent Coordination

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.

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Jun 23

Detecting AI Coding Agents in Open Source: A Validated Multi-Method Census of 180 Million Repositories

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 AI
Sep 1

CrossAudit: A Git-Native, Cross-Vendor Audit Loop for Agentic Science

CrossAudit proposes a Git‑native, cross‑vendor audit protocol for autonomous research pipelines, ensuring each work increment is reviewed by an agent from a different vendor against a human‑written rulebook. Audit outcomes, disputes, and rulings are stored as git commits, providing a replayable, versioned supervision history. The authors implemented the protocol with GitHub Actions and Python, deployed it in a computational‑chemistry pipeline, and conducted a seeded‑defect trial that revealed differing interpretations of the same rulebook by two vendors.

By Zhaohe Dong, Yuhao Chen
arXiv AI
2d ago

Worse Together: How Performance Breaks Down in Multi-User Multi-Agent Teams

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 AI
Aug 26

AgentRoom: Concurrent Multi-Agent Coding in a CRDT-Backed Shared Workspace

AgentRoom introduces a real‑time collaborative editing protocol that enables concurrent coding by multiple large language model agents within a CRDT‑backed shared workspace. By providing file‑level claim, status, and broadcast tools, it allows agents to coordinate directly rather than relying on serial phase handoffs or independent sampling. Experiments with five frontier coding‑CLI models show that AgentRoom reduces task abandonment and run‑to‑run variation compared to solo or parallel‑merge approaches, highlighting the importance of coordination over mere parallelism.

By Seonglae Cho, Donghyun Lee
arXiv AI
Sep 4

DNative-Twin: Decision Graphs and Digital Twins for Reconstructable Agentic Decisions

DNative‑Twin is a graph‑native digital twin that records an AI agent’s committed decision as a typed trajectory, linking observed state, decision path, and authority. It re‑executes the decision mechanism under declared conditions, synchronizing and replaying the process in isolation to compare outcomes under controlled changes. Experiments on enterprise decision logs show that adding replay‑contract state and verification evidence improves unresolved‑divergence recall from 0 to 1.0, while end‑to‑end processing time rises from 0.794 to 8.889 seconds across 500–5,000 cases.

By Junjie Pang, Zhenzhen Xie, Haoke Han, Ying He, Jing Wang, Gang Liu
arXiv Computation and Language
Sep 23

Passes Alone, Fails Together: Benchmarking Semantic Coordination in Parallel LLM-Agent Development

Parallel coding agents can produce patches that work individually but fail when merged, a problem arising when one agent alters an interface or rule another agent depends on. The authors introduce *stale*, a benchmark for semantic coordination, evaluating patches both alone and in combination across synthetic tasks, real Django pull‑request pairs, and constructed tasks. While only one of 417 mined Django pairs showed interference after grading corrections, interference appeared in 97% of runs on constructed tasks, and a message describing the concurrent change recovered 82% of those runs.

By Haocheng Xia, Eugene Wu, Yongjoo Park