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What Context Does a Coding Agent Actually Need to Act?

arXiv cs.LG · 2026-07-14 Cached

This paper investigates the minimal context needed for coding agents to edit code, finding that natural-language summaries of code are ineffective and that surrounding context matters little, with compressed context achieving equal results at a third of the tokens. It also reveals a noise floor due to temperature-0 API inference.

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