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  1. BulkPR-Bench: Benchmarking Queue-Level Governance of Interacting Pull Requests

    Aug 3, 2026Zetong Xiong, Qiao Zhao, Jun Zhang +20Software Engineering AgentsBenchmark Construction

    Baidu Beijing, China

  2. Post-Training on Office Work Improves Software Engineering: A Behavioral Account of Cross-Domain Transfer

    Aug 3, 2026Logan Ritchie, Sushant Mehta, Liudas Panavas +1Software Engineering AgentsCross-Domain Transfer Learning

    Surge AI

  3. Permission Denied: Policy-Graded Evaluation of Coding Agents in Hardened Environments

    Aug 2, 2026Dotan Davidovich, Yair Amar, Hai Rozencwajg +1Software Engineering AgentsLLM Agent Evaluation

    Accomplish AI

  4. Measuring Cross-Task Behavioral Consistency in Language Model Agents

    Jul 31, 2026Amritesh Banerjee, Pranil RaichuraAI Agent ReliabilitySoftware Engineering Agents

    University of Massachusetts Amherst · Mantis AI Research (MIT CSAIL)

  5. Shared Organizational Memory for Enterprise Coding Agents: System Design and Deployment Snapshot

    Jul 31, 2026Harsh Rao Dhanyamraju, Leonidas RaghavSoftware Engineering AgentsCoding Agents

    SAP SE

  6. ORCA-bench: How Ready Are Language Model Agents for Oncall?

    Jul 30, 2026Albert Gong, Kyuseong Choi, Abhineet Agarwal +5Software Engineering AgentsAI Agent Benchmarks

    Cornell Tech · Traversal · Columbia University

  7. AgentRadio: Passive Awareness for Long-Horizon Multi-Agent Collaboration

    Jul 30, 2026Xinxing Ren, Qianbo Zang, Ziyan Wang +4Software Engineering AgentsLong-Horizon LLM Agents

    1Coral AI Labs · 2SnT, Université du Luxembourg · 3King’s College London +1

  8. Specula: Scaling formal specifications for autonomous model checking of system code

    Jul 28, 2026Qian Cheng, Saad Mohammad Rafid Pial, Ruize Tang +6Software Engineering AgentsFormal Verification

    Nanjing University Nanjing, China · University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, IL, USA · Microsoft Research Asia Beijing, China +1

  9. Agent Retrieval Bench: Evaluating Repository Context Retrieval for Coding Agents

    Jul 27, 2026Bowen Qin, Yi XieSoftware Engineering AgentsAI Agent Benchmarks

    1National University of Singapore (NUS) · 2Peking University

  10. How Do AI Coding Agents Contribute to Software Development? an Empirical Study of Agentic Pull Requests

    Jul 23, 2026Iren Mazloomzadeh, Mohammad Mehdi Morovati, Foutse KhomhSoftware Engineering AgentsAI Coding Agents

    Polytechnique Montréal, Canada

  11. PhoenixRepair: Rethinking Repair Strategy Exploration in Software Agents

    Jul 21, 2026Tianyue Jiang, Yanlin Wang, Xin He +7LLM Self-CorrectionSoftware Engineering Agents

    Sun Yat-sen University, China · State Key Laboratory of Blockchain and Data Security, Zhejiang University, China · School of Cyber Science and Engineering, Huazhong University of Science and Technology, China +1

  12. Proof-or-Stop: Don't Trust the Agent, Trust the Evidence -- Loop Engineering for Verifiable Evidence-Gated Lifecycle Control

    Jul 16, 2026Jek Huang, Jeffery Hsia, Jiayi Sun +3Software Engineering AgentsAI Agent Monitoring

    Prodenovo

  13. Democratizing Agent Deployment Safety: A Structural Monitoring Approach

    Jul 16, 2026Preeti Ravindra, Rahul Tiwari, Vincent WolowskiSoftware Engineering AgentsAI Agent Security

    1Independent

  14. Beyond Generalist LLMs: Specialist Agentic Systems for Structured Code Workflow Execution

    Jul 16, 2026Harris Borman, Herman Wandabwa, Fusun Yu +4Software Engineering AgentsBusiness Process Automation

    Commonwealth Bank of Australia, Sydney, Australia.

  15. Why Git Is the Memory Solution for the Agentic Development Lifecycle

    Jul 15, 2026Frank GuoAgent MemorySoftware Engineering Agents

    Rekal — rekal.dev

  16. NexForge: Scaling Executable Agent Tasks via Requirement-First Synthesis

    Jul 15, 2026Jiarong Zhao, Zhikai Lei, Zhiheng Xi +5Software Engineering AgentsSynthetic Data Generation

    1East China Normal University · 2Shanghai Qiji Zhifeng Co., Ltd

  17. When Bots Join the Team: Bot Adoption and the Institutional Fabric of Open-Source Software Projects

    Jul 15, 2026Yongren Shi, Wenyi GongSoftware EngineeringSoftware Engineering Agents

    University of Arizona

  18. Harness Handbook: Making Evolving Agent Harnesses Readable,Navigable, and Editable

    Jul 14, 2026Ruhan Wang, Yucheng Shi, Zongxia Li +7Software Engineering AgentsLLM Agent Harnesses

    Tencent · Indiana University · University of Maryland, College Park +2

  19. Do AI Agents Know When a Task Is Simple? Toward Complexity-Aware Reasoning and Execution

    Jul 14, 2026Junjie Yin, Xinyu FengSoftware Engineering AgentsLLM Agent Evaluation

    University of Tennessee, Knoxville, TN 37996, USA · Microsoft, Redmond, WA 98052, USA

  20. ToFu: A White-Box, Token-Efficient Agent Harness for Researchers

    Jul 13, 2026Junhao Ruan, Yuan Ge, Bei Li +7Tool-Augmented Language Model AgentsSoftware Engineering Agents

    Northeastern University, China · LongCat RSI, Meituan · NiuTrans Research

  21. Inference Economics of Enterprise Coding Agents: A Case Study of Cloud vs. On-Premise LLMs

    Jul 13, 2026Sheng-Wei Peng, Yi-Hsun Lin, Yi-Pei LeeLLM ServingSoftware Engineering Agents

    Pegatron Corporation Taipei, Taiwan

  22. How Do Practitioners Build SE Agents? Insights from a Mixed-Methods Study

    Jul 12, 2026Yunbo Lyu, David Williams, Jieke Shi +5Software Engineering AgentsLLM Agent Evaluation

    Singapore Management University, Singapore · University College London, UK · Tencent, China +2

  23. Do These Violent Delights Have Violent Ends? Measuring the Post-Merge Fate of Agentic Code

    Jul 10, 2026Chunqiu Steven Xia, Courtney MillerSoftware EngineeringSoftware Engineering Agents

    University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign · Urbana, IL, USA · George Washington University +1

  24. Aleena: Alignment Agent for Research Software Engineering Collaborations

    Jul 9, 2026Kshitij Dani, Cordero Core, Landung Setiawan +4Software Engineering AgentsHuman-AI Collaboration

    eScience Institute University of Washington Seattle, Washington, USA · eScience Institute University of Washington Seattle, Washington 많은 USA

  25. Reliable and Developer-Aligned Evaluation of Agents for Software Engineering

    Jul 7, 2026Razvan Mihai PopescuSoftware Engineering AgentsLLM Agent Evaluation

    Delft University of Technology Delft, The Netherlands

  26. Harnessing Code Agents for Automatic Software Verification

    Jul 7, 2026Shuangxiang Kan, Shuanglong Kan, Sebastian ErtelSoftware Engineering AgentsAutomated Theorem Proving

    Singapore Management University · Singapore · Barkhausen Institut +1

  27. What Do AI Agents Actually Change? An Empirical Taxonomy of Mutation Patterns in Performance-Improving Pull Requests

    Jul 6, 2026Illia Dovhoshliubnyi, Nima Soroush, Ashkan Sami +1Software EngineeringSoftware Engineering Agents

    Edinburgh Napier University, Edinburgh, UK · University of Stirling, Stirling, UK

  28. CompactionRL: Reinforcement Learning with Context Compaction for Long-Horizon Agents

    Jul 6, 2026Yujiang Li, Zhenyu Hou, Yi Jing +2Software Engineering AgentsLong-Horizon LLM Agents

    Work done while YL, ZH, and YJ interned at Z.AI. · Tsinghua University

  29. KAT-Coder-V2.5 Technical Report

    Jul 6, 2026Bo Huang, Fengxiang Li, Hao Xu +50RL for Code GenerationSoftware Engineering Agents

  30. Measuring Harness-Induced Belief Divergence in Multi-Step LLM Agents

    Jul 5, 2026Haiwen Yi, Xinyuan SongSoftware Engineering AgentsLLM Agent Evaluation

    University of Toronto · Emory University