arXiv:2607. 01916v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Large language model agents can repair real repository issues, but they often spend large context budgets on whole-file reads, broad searches, and long terminal outputs where useful evidence is mixed with irrelevant code and logs.
arXiv:2606. 12329v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: AI coding assistants now support a growing share of software work, from quick scripts to production applications.
arXiv:2607. 24882v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Modern coding agents are usually evaluated by whether they eventually produce a correct patch, but patch generation depends on an earlier context-acquisition stage: finding the repository files needed for the task.
arXiv:2608.29675v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Repository exploration is a distinct and costly stage of coding-agent pipelines: before generating a patch, an agent must identify which repository f...
arXiv:2609.01601v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: The repository-level code generation task requires synthesizing code that satisfies task requirements while remaining consistent with the target repo...
arXiv:2602.11988v3 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: A widespread practice in software development is to tailor coding agents to repositories using context files, such as AGENTS.md. Although thi...
arXiv:2607. 12605v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Large language models (LLMs) have improved automated program repair (APR), but two limitations remain.
arXiv:2607. 09691v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: A modern coding agent can hold an entire repository in its context window.
arXiv:2607. 20064v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Long-horizon tasks require sustained perception, reasoning, and exploration, and are a persistent challenge for large language model (LLM) agents.
StateTape introduces a new framework for long‑horizon coding agents that rewrites the agent’s context as the code repository changes, rather than letting the context grow with every observation. It models the repository as a symbol‑level code graph, using a tape to mark symbols altered by each write and a manager model to resolve stale records. The authors provide theoretical analysis, a new benchmark called TraceBench, and empirical results showing higher resolve rates across six agents and three edit‑heavy benchmarks with minimal computational overhead.
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.
Schr"odinger's Repository (Schr"odingerRepo) is an evaluation framework that tests coding agents on dynamically instantiated repository representations to mitigate data leakage from static repository benchmarks. It transforms test repositories through four levels—problem statement reconstruction, namespace remapping, intra-file layout reordering, and functionality-preserving code rewriting—to obscure familiar cues while preserving executable behavior. Experiments on popular LLMs using SWE-bench Verified and SWE-QA show that removing these cues consistently degrades performance and increases interaction costs, mainly due to harder repository exploration and localization.
arXiv:2606. 11976v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Software engineering tools increasingly rely on LLM based agents to localize files to change to resolve a software issue.