arXiv AI By Shafiuddin Rehan Ahmed, Sourabh Deshpande

Declarative by Design, Assistable Only by Convention: Benchmarking Multi-Agent Frameworks for AI-Assistability

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arXiv:2602. 11198v2 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Multi-agent frameworks (MAFs) promise to simplify LLM-driven software development, yet no principled metric captures how well AI coding assistants can generate correct, framework-specific code.

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