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. SlopCodeBench: Benchmarking How Coding Agents Degrade Over Long-Horizon Iterative Tasks

    Mar 25, 2026Gabriel Orlanski, Devjeet Roy, Alexander Yun +7AI Coding AgentsCoding Agent Benchmarks

    University of Wisconsin–Madison · Washington State University · MIT

  2. Coherence Collapse: Diagnosing Why Code Agents Fail After Reaching the Right Code

    Mar 25, 2026Myeongsoo Kim, Dingmin Wang, Siwei Cui +6Agent Failure AnalysisAI Coding Agents

    AWS AI Labs · Monash University

  3. Customized User Plane Processing via Code Generating AI Agents for Next Generation Mobile Networks

    Mar 24, 2026Xiaowen Ma, Onur Ayan, Yunpu Ma +1Code GenerationAgentic Code Generation

    Huawei Technologies Duesseldorf GmbH · Ludwig-Maximilians-University Munich

  4. Skilled AI Agents for Embedded and IoT Systems Development

    Mar 20, 2026Yiming Li, Yuhan Cheng, Mingchen Ma +6AI Coding AgentsAI Agent Benchmarks

    Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Duke University

  5. TDAD: Test-Driven Agentic Development - Reducing Code Regressions in AI Coding Agents via Graph-Based Impact Analysis

    Mar 18, 2026Pepe Alonso, Sergio Yovine, Victor A. BrabermanAI Coding AgentsAI Agent Reliability

    Universidad ORT Uruguay · DC, UBA, Argentina

  6. Bootstrapping Coding Agents: The Specification Is the Program

    Mar 18, 2026Martin MonperrusAI Coding AgentsLLM-Based Program Synthesis

    KTH Royal Institute of Technology, Stockholm, Sweden.

  7. When the Specification Emerges: Benchmarking Faithfulness Loss in Long-Horizon Coding Agents

    Mar 17, 2026Lu Yan, Xuan Chen, Xiangyu ZhangAI Coding AgentsCoding Agents

    Purdue University

  8. Nonstandard Errors in AI Agents

    Mar 17, 2026Ruijiang Gao, Steven Chong XiaoAI Agent ReliabilityAutonomous Research Agents

    Naveen Jindal School of Management, University of Texas at Dallas

  9. Lore: Repurposing Git Commit Messages as a Structured Knowledge Protocol for AI Coding Agents

    Mar 16, 2026Ivan StetsenkoSoftware EngineeringAI Coding Agents

    Independent Researcher

  10. "I'm Not Reading All of That": Understanding Software Engineers' Level of Cognitive Engagement with Agentic Coding Assistants

    Mar 15, 2026Carlos Rafael Catalan, Lheane Marie Dizon, Patricia Nicole Monderin +1AI Coding AgentsHuman-AI Interaction

    York University Toronto, Canada

  11. Arbiter: Detecting Interference in LLM Agent System Prompts

    Mar 9, 2026Tony MasonAI Agent AuditingAI Coding Agents

    the University of British Columbia · the Georgia Institute of Technology

  12. XAI for Coding Agent Failures: Transforming Raw Execution Traces into Actionable Insights

    Mar 6, 2026Arun JoshiAgent Failure AnalysisExplainable Artificial Intelligence

    Independent Researcher Islington College (Alumini) Nepal

  13. Building Effective AI Coding Agents for the Terminal: Scaffolding, Harness, Context Engineering, and Lessons Learned

    Mar 5, 2026Nghi D. Q. BuiAI Coding AgentsCoding Agents

    OpenDev

  14. A Dual-Helix Governance Approach Towards Reliable Agentic Artificial Intelligence for WebGIS Development

    Mar 4, 2026Boyuan Guan, Wencong Cui, Levente JuhaszSoftware Engineering AgentsAI Coding Agents

    Geographic Information Systems Center, Florida International University, Miami, FL, USA · Geospatial Analytics, Technology and Open Research Lab, University of Florida, Fort Lauderdale, FL, USA

  15. Asymmetric Goal Drift in Coding Agents Under Value Conflict

    Mar 3, 2026Magnus Saebo, Spencer Gibson, Tyler Crosse +3AI Coding AgentsAI Agent Safety

    Columbia University · Independent · Georgia Tech +3

  16. Agentic Code Reasoning

    Mar 2, 2026Shubham Ugare, Satish ChandraAI Coding Agents

    Meta, USA

  17. Qwen3-Coder-Next Technical Report

    Feb 28, 2026Ruisheng Cao, Mouxiang Chen, Jiawei Chen +17Code Language ModelsAI Coding Agents

  18. VeRO: A Harness for Agents to Optimize Agents

    Feb 25, 2026Varun Ursekar, Apaar Shanker, Veronica Chatrath +2Agent Harness OptimizationLLM Agent Harnesses

    Scale AI.

  19. ISO-Bench: Can Coding Agents Optimize Real-World Inference Workloads?

    Feb 23, 2026Ayush Nangia, Shikhar Mishra, Aman Gokrani +1Coding Agent BenchmarksAI Coding Agents

  20. When AI Teammates Meet Code Review: Collaboration Signals Shaping the Integration of Agent-Authored Pull Requests

    Feb 23, 2026Costain Nachuma, Minhaz ZibranAI Coding AgentsAI-Assisted Software Development

    Idaho State University, USA

  21. How AI Coding Agents Communicate: A Study of Pull Request Description Characteristics and Human Review Responses

    Feb 19, 2026Kan Watanabe, Rikuto Tsuchida, Takahiro Monno +5AI Coding AgentsHuman-AI Collaboration

    Nara Institute of Science and Technology, Japan

  22. Hybrid-Gym: Training Coding Agents to Generalize Across Tasks

    Feb 18, 2026Yiqing Xie, Emmy Liu, Gaokai Zhang +7AI Coding AgentsSoftware Engineering Agents

    Carnegie Mellon University · All Hands AI

  23. Evaluating AGENTS.md: Are Repository-Level Context Files Helpful for Coding Agents?

    Feb 12, 2026Thibaud Gloaguen, Niels Mündler-Sasahara, Mark Niklas Müller +2AI Coding AgentsCoding Agents

    Department of Computer Science ETH Zurich

  24. Just Ask: Curious Code Agents Reveal System Prompts in Frontier LLMs

    Jan 29, 2026Xiang Zheng, Yutao Wu, Hanxun Huang +5Prompt InjectionAI Coding Agents

    City University of Hong Kong · Deakin University · The University of Melbourne +3

  25. VASP Agent: An Agentic Framework for Autonomous First-principles Calculations

    Dec 22, 2025Zeyu Xia, Jinzhe Ma, Congjie Zheng +11AI Coding AgentsComputational Materials Science

    Shanghai Artificial Intelligence Laboratory, Shanghai, 200232, China. · Department of Computer Science and Technology, Tsinghua University, Beijing, 100084, China. · School of Physical Science and Technology, ShanghaiTech University, Shanghai, 201210, China. +6

  26. Is Vibe Coding Safe? Benchmarking Vulnerability of Agent-Generated Code in Real-World Tasks

    Dec 2, 2025Songwen Zhao, Danqing Wang, Kexun Zhang +3AI Coding AgentsSoftware Security

    Carnegie Mellon University, Language Technologies Institute · Columbia University · Johns Hopkins University +1

  27. User Misconceptions of LLM-Based Conversational Programming Assistants

    Oct 29, 2025Gabrielle O'Brien, Antonio Pedro Santos Alves, Sebastian Baltes +2AI Coding Agents

    University of Michigan Ann Arbor, Michigan, USA · Pontifical Catholic University of Rio de Janeiro Rio de Janeiro, Brazil · Heidelberg University Heidelberg, Germany +1

  28. Breaking the Code: Security Assessment of AI Code Agents Through Systematic Jailbreaking Attacks

    Oct 1, 2025Shoumik Saha, Jifan Chen, Sam Mayers +3AI Coding AgentsAI Agent Security

    University of Maryland – College Park · AWS AI Labs · Meta Superintelligence Labs

  29. Red-Teaming Coding Agents from a Tool-Invocation Perspective: An Empirical Security Assessment

    Sep 6, 2025Yuchong Xie, Mingyu Luo, Zesen Liu +7Prompt InjectionAI Coding Agents

    The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, China · Fudan University, China