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The paper explores whether natural‑language documentation aids coding agents in fixing software bugs and introduces a roundtrip benchmark that evaluates code descriptions by regenerating code and testing it. It finds that description completeness, not length, determines fidelity, and presents an optimizer that can produce fully faithful descriptions that generalize to new files. However, experiments across two model families and ten repositories show that such compact documentation does not improve an agent’s ability to resolve real repository issues compared to using the issue alone.
arXiv:2606. 09090v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Developers increasingly provide AI coding assistants with persistent context through configuration files such as CLAUDE.
arXiv:2609. 31176v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Repository-level issue localization aims to identify and rank the files and functions relevant to resolving a reported issue.
arXiv:2607. 01425v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Understanding large, complex codebases, especially those with obfuscated structures and incomplete documentation, remains a significant challenge.
arXiv:2507. 16395v3 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Atomic commits, which address a single development concern, are a best practice in software development.
arXiv:2607. 08691v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Repository-level code generation requires implementing target functions while accounting for complex cross-file dependencies and project-specific conventions.