arXiv AI

StagedWorkspace: A Versioned Workspace for Knowledge-Work Agents

StagedWorkspace is a versioned workspace designed for knowledge‑work AI agents, ensuring that every parsed view, native file edit, and review diff is explicitly tied to a specific version of the workspace state. By binding parsed records and review diffs to content hashes of native files, the system improves performance on tasks such as OfficeQA and APEX‑Agents, achieving higher pass rates and rubric scores compared to single‑view approaches. The study demonstrates that providing dual parsed/native access and visible diffs enhances agent performance, highlighting workspace state as a key experimental variable for future benchmarks.

arXiv AI
2d ago

K-Dense BYOK: An Open-Source AI Research Assistant That Runs Locally and Keeps a Hash-Chained Lab Notebook

K‑Dense BYOK is a free, open‑source AI research assistant that runs locally on a researcher’s own computer. It provides a structured environment with scientific procedures, workflow templates, and a living lab notebook that logs all actions without allowing the agent to alter the record. The system emphasizes reproducibility by recording the software environment and offering commands to regenerate results, outperforming managed platforms on interdisciplinary research prompts.

By Aubrey M. Brueckner, Darshil Patel, Yuhuan He, Timothy Kassis
arXiv AI
Sep 3

Repo-To-Skill: Distilling GitHub Repositories Into AI4AI Skills

The paper introduces Repo-To-Skill, a method for converting GitHub repositories into reusable AI skills. By distilling operational knowledge from over 1,000 machine‑learning repositories, the authors build the AREX‑Skill Library with more than 5,000 verified skills across 20 areas. Integrating these skills into a research agent—DisCo—yields significant performance boosts on multiple benchmarks, demonstrating the value of reusable, task‑agnostic knowledge.

By Jianlyu Chen, Yuyang Hu, Hongjin Qian, Jiawei Liu, Wenqing Wei, Xiaolong Chen, Defu Lian, Zhicheng Dou, Chaozhuo Li, Qiwei Ye, Zheng Liu
Hugging Face Trending Papers
Aug 20

From Agent Behaviour to Agent-Friendly Documentation: An Empirical Study of How Coding Agents Discover, Read, and Write Technical Documentation

The study investigates how autonomous coding agents interact with technical documentation, analyzing 557 coding sessions and 33,097 pull requests. Findings reveal that agents primarily engage with agent-facing artefacts, show weak links between documentation consultation and code editing, lack explicit validation sequences, and tend to consult documentation after code changes. The authors propose a two‑lobed cycle model of agent‑documentation interaction and challenge assumptions about actionability and verifiability of agent‑friendly documentation.

arXiv AI
Jun 24

LemonHarness Technical Report

arXiv:2606. 24311v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: As large language model (LLM) agents are applied to longer tasks, they increasingly modify workspace state across multiple rounds of iteration.

By Kailong Ren, Fubo Sun, Jiachen Liu, Liu Yang, Zimo Yin, Jiaying Li, Congli Yin, Ming He, Yu Huo, Jiawei Liu, Zeping Chen, Yubin Huangfu, Ronghua Li, Yixuan Wu, Xing Su, Yanzhi Xu, Likang Wu, Hongke Zhao, Lei Zhang, Xiaohui Geng, Jianping Fan
arXiv AI
Jul 31

Filesystem-Based Memory for LLM Agents: Organization, Evolution, and Sustainability

arXiv:2607. 26637v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Deployed LLM agents increasingly keep their long-term memory as a filesystem: a directory tree of markdown files that the agent itself reads, writes, and reorganizes through generic file tools.

By Sizhe Zhou, Sheldon Yu, Hui Wei, Junda Wu, Siru Ouyang, Yizhu Jiao, Shijia Pan, Julian McAuley, Yu Zhang, Tong Yu, Jiawei Han
arXiv Computation and Language
3d ago

GraphForge: Training Working Agents with Graph-Anchored Workspace Synthesis

arXiv:2609.38923v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Working agents need to read diverse files, coordinate tools, and produce deliverables. Training such agents requires tasks built on many real files wit...

By Qisheng Su, Hanchen Wang, Guanru Zhu, Huicheng Jiang, Qiuyinzhe Zhang, Kou Shi, Zhen Fang, Ziao Zhang, Qingnan Ren, Zehui Chen, Tao Gui, Feng Zhao