AI Coding Agents

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AI coding agents study how language models can work with repositories and development tools to carry out tasks such as fixing bugs, adding features, and building software. Common approaches combine planning and tool use with repository search, structured code editing, reusable skills or memory, and feedback from tests or execution. Benchmarks such as SWE-bench and Terminal-Bench measure issue resolution and command-line work, while newer evaluations test long-running, multi-file changes and behavior in real applications. Agents can solve many coding tasks, but success varies with the model, harness, and task; passing functional tests still does not guarantee secure, maintainable, or specification-faithful software, so reliable verification and effective human oversight remain open challenges.

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  1. AblateCell: A Reproduce-then-Ablate Agent for Virtual Cell Repositories

    Apr 21, 2026Xue Xia, Chengkai Yao, Mingyu Tsoi +10AI Coding AgentsML Reproducibility

    Shanghai Artificial Intelligence Laboratory · The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology (Guangzhou) · University of California San Diego +4

  2. HiveMind: OS-Inspired Scheduling for Concurrent LLM Agent Workloads

    Apr 18, 2026Justice Owusu Agyemang, Jerry John Kponyo, Obed Kwasi Somuah +3LLM Inference EfficiencyAI Coding Agents

    Sperix Labs · VIA Cybersecurity Lab, KNUST · Quantum and Assistive Technologies Lab, KNUST

  3. From Clinical Intent to Clinical Model: Autonomous Coding-Agents for Clinician-driven AI Development

    Apr 18, 2026Zihao Zhao, Frederik Hauke, Juliana De Castilhos +4AI Coding AgentsAgentic Code Generation

    University Hospital Aachen, Department of Diagnostic and Interventional Radiology, 52074 Aachen, Germany · Juelich AI Factory, Forschungszentrum Jülich, Jülich, Germany · Else Kröner Fresenius Center for Digital Health, TU Dresden, Dresden, Germany +2

  4. Scaling Test-Time Compute for Agentic Coding

    Apr 16, 2026Joongwon Kim, Wannan Yang, Kelvin Niu +13AI Coding AgentsTest-Time Scaling

    1Meta Superintelligence Labs · University of Washington · 3New York University +4

  5. Dive into Claude Code: The Design Space of Today's and Future AI Agent Systems

    Apr 14, 2026Jiacheng Liu, Xiaohan Zhao, Xinyi Shang +1AI Coding AgentsLLM Agent Orchestration

    VILA Lab, Mohamed bin Zayed University of Artificial Intelligence · University College London

  6. Local-Splitter: A Measurement Study of Seven Tactics for Reducing Cloud LLM Token Usage on Coding-Agent Workloads

    Apr 14, 2026Justice Owusu Agyemang, Jerry John Kponyo, Elliot Amponsah +2LLM Agent Workflow OptimizationLLM Inference Efficiency

    Sperix Labs · VIA Cybersecurity Lab, KNUST · Quantum and Assistive Technologies Lab, KNUST

  7. CodeTracer: Towards Traceable Agent States

    Apr 13, 2026Han Li, Yifan Yao, Letian Zhu +13AI Coding AgentsAgent Trajectory Analysis

    Nanjing University · Alibaba Group · Renmin University of China +3

  8. From Translation to Superset: Benchmark-Driven Evolution of a Production AI Agent from Rust to Python

    Apr 13, 2026Jinhua Wang, Biswa SenguptaCode TranslationAI Coding Agents

    LLM Suite Team, JP Morgan Chase & Co.

  9. Resilient Write: A Six-Layer Durable Write Surface for LLM Coding Agents

    Apr 12, 2026Justice Owusu Agyemang, Jerry John Kponyo, Elliot Amponsah +2LLM Agent ReliabilityAI Coding Agents

    Sperixlabs, Ghana · Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology, Kumasi, Ghana · VIA Cybersecurity Lab, Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology, Kumasi, Ghana

  10. Applying an Agentic Coding Tool for Improving Published Algorithm Implementations

    Apr 11, 2026Worasait SuwannikAI-Assisted Software DevelopmentAI Coding Agents

  11. Formal Architecture Descriptors as Navigation Primitives for AI Coding Agents

    Apr 11, 2026Ruoqi JinCode LocalizationAI Coding Agents

    Independent Researcher, China

  12. Beyond Functional Correctness: Design Issues in AI IDE-Generated Large-Scale Projects

    Apr 7, 2026Syed Mohammad Kashif, Ruiyin Li, Peng Liang +4Software EngineeringAI Coding Agents

    School of Computer Science, Wuhan University, China · School of Mathematical and Computational Sciences, Massey University, New Zealand · School of Computer Science, Nanjing University of Science and Technology, China +2

  13. CODESTRUCT: Code Agents over Structured Action Spaces

    Apr 7, 2026Myeongsoo Kim, Joe Hsu, Dingmin Wang +3AI Coding AgentsCode Generation

    AWS AI Labs

  14. Spec Kit Agents: Context-Grounded Agentic Workflows

    Apr 7, 2026Pardis Taghavi, Santosh BhavaniSoftware EngineeringAI Coding Agents

  15. Architecture Without Architects: How AI Coding Agents Shape Software Architecture

    Apr 5, 2026Phongsakon Mark Konrad, Tim Lukas Adam, Riccardo Terrenzi +1Software Architecture DesignAI Coding Agents

    Centre for Industrial Software, University of Southern Denmark, Alsion 2, Sønderborg, 6400, Denmark

  16. Squeez: Task-Conditioned Tool-Output Pruning for Coding Agents

    Apr 4, 2026Ádám KovácsAI Coding AgentsLLM Agent Training

    KR Labs

  17. Measuring the Permission Gate: A Stress-Test Evaluation of Claude Code's Auto Mode

    Apr 4, 2026Zimo Ji, Zongjie Li, Pingchuan Ma +3AI Agent SecurityTool-Use Authorization

    Hong Kong University of Science and Technology · ETH Zurich

  18. AgenticFlict: A Large-Scale Dataset of Merge Conflicts in AI Coding Agent Pull Requests on GitHub

    Apr 4, 2026Daniel Ogenrwot, John BusingeAI Coding AgentsAI-Assisted Software Development

    University of Nevada Las Vegas Las Vegas, USA

  19. REAP: Automatic Curation of Coding Agent Benchmarks from Interactive Production Usage

    Apr 2, 2026Smriti Jha, Matteo Paltenghi, Chandra Maddila +3Coding Agent BenchmarksBenchmark Construction

    Meta, USA

  20. Agent psychometrics: Task-level performance prediction in agentic coding benchmarks

    Apr 1, 2026Chris Ge, Daria Kryvosheieva, Daniel Fried +2LLM Agent EvaluationAI Agent Evaluation

    MIT · Fulcrum · Carnegie Mellon University

  21. View-oriented Conversation Compiler for Agent Trace Analysis

    Mar 31, 2026Lvmin Zhang, Maneesh AgrawalaLLM Context ManagementReasoning Trace Analysis

    Stanford University

  22. IACDM: Interactive Adversarial Convergence Development Methodology -- A Structured Framework for AI-Assisted Software Development

    Mar 31, 2026Jasmine MoreiraAI-Assisted Software DevelopmentAI Coding Agents

  23. Needle in the Repo: A Benchmark for Maintainability in AI-Generated Repository Edits

    Mar 29, 2026Haichao Zhu, Qian Zhang, Jiyuan Wang +2Software EngineeringAI Coding Agents

    Independent Researcher · UC Riverside · Tulane University

  24. KAT-Coder-V2 Technical Report

    Mar 29, 2026Fengxiang Li, Han Zhang, Haoyang Huang +43AI Coding AgentsAgentic Code Generation

  25. PRBench: End-to-end Paper Reproduction in Physics Research

    Mar 29, 2026Shi Qiu, Junyi Deng, Yiwei Deng +48AI Agent BenchmarksAI Coding Agents

  26. Safer Builders, Risky Maintainers: A Comparative Study of Breaking Changes in Human vs Agentic PRs

    Mar 29, 2026K M Ferdous, Dipayan Banik, Kowshik Chowdhury +1AI Coding AgentsLLM Agent Reliability

    Kennesaw State University Marietta, Georgia, USA · Quanta Technology Raleigh, North Carolina, USA

  27. A Multi-agent AI System for Deep Learning Model Migration from TensorFlow to JAX

    Mar 28, 2026Stoyan Nikolov, Bernhard Konrad, Moritz Gronbach +5AI Coding AgentsMulti-Agent Coding

    Google Munich, Germany · Google Mountain View, California, USA · Google Sunnyvale, California, USA

  28. Codebase-Memory: Tree-Sitter-Based Knowledge Graphs for LLM Code Exploration via MCP

    Mar 28, 2026Martin Vogel, Falk Meyer-Eschenbach, Severin Kohler +2AI Coding AgentsGraph-Based Agent Memory

    Independent Researcher, Berlin, Germany · Institute of Medical Informatics, Charité – Universitätsmedizin Berlin, Berlin, Germany · Clinical Study Center, Berlin Institute of Health, Berlin, Germany +3

  29. Ask or Assume? Uncertainty-Aware Clarification-Seeking in Coding Agents

    Mar 27, 2026Nicholas Edwards, Sebastian SchusterMulti-Agent LLM SystemsAI Coding Agents

    Faculty of Computer Science, University of Vienna, Vienna, Austria · UniVie Doctoral School Computer Science, University of Vienna, Vienna, Austria

  30. Confident and Wrong: Silent Semantic Failures in Coding Agents

    Mar 26, 2026Aman MehtaAI Agent ReliabilityAI Coding Agents

    Snowflake AI Research