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@article{chen2021evaluating,
  author    = {Chen, Mark and Tworek, Jerry and Jun, Heewoo and Yuan, Qiming and Pinto, Henrique Pond\'{e} and Kaplan, Jared and Edwards, Harri and Burda, Yuri and Joseph, Nicholas and Brockman, Greg and others},
  title     = {Evaluating Large Language Models Trained on Code},
  journal   = {arXiv preprint arXiv:2107.03374},
  year      = {2021},
}

@article{roziere2023code,
  author    = {Rozi\`{e}re, Baptiste and Gehring, Jonas and Gloeckle, Fabian and Sootla, Sten and Gat, Itai and Tan, Xiaoqing Ellen and Adi, Yossi and Liu, Jingyu and Remez, Tal and Rapin, J\'{e}r\'{e}my and others},
  title     = {{Code Llama}: Open Foundation Models for Code},
  journal   = {arXiv preprint arXiv:2308.12950},
  year      = {2023},
}

@inproceedings{yao2023react,
  author    = {Yao, Shunyu and Zhao, Jeffrey and Yu, Dian and Du, Nan and Shafran, Izhak and Narasimhan, Karthik and Cao, Yuan},
  title     = {{ReAct}: Synergizing Reasoning and Acting in Language Models},
  booktitle = {International Conference on Learning Representations (ICLR)},
  year      = {2023},
}

@inproceedings{schick2023toolformer,
  author    = {Schick, Timo and Dwivedi-Yu, Jane and Dess\`{i}, Roberto and Raileanu, Roberta and Lomeli, Maria and Zettlemoyer, Luke and Cancedda, Nicola and Scialom, Thomas},
  title     = {Toolformer: Language Models Can Teach Themselves to Use Tools},
  booktitle = {Advances in Neural Information Processing Systems (NeurIPS)},
  year      = {2023},
}

@article{yang2024sweagent,
  author    = {Yang, John and Jimenez, Carlos E. and Wettig, Alexander and Liber, Kilian and Narasimhan, Karthik and Press, Ofir},
  title     = {{SWE-agent}: Agent-Computer Interfaces Enable Automated Software Engineering},
  journal   = {arXiv preprint arXiv:2405.15793},
  year      = {2024},
}

@article{wang2024openhands,
  author    = {Wang, Xingyao and Chen, Yangyi and Yuan, Lifan and Zhang, Yizhe and Li, Yunzhi and Peng, Hao and Ji, Heng},
  title     = {{OpenHands}: An Open Platform for {AI} Software Developers as Generalist Agents},
  journal   = {arXiv preprint arXiv:2407.16741},
  year      = {2024},
}

@misc{autogpt2023,
  author    = {{Significant Gravitas}},
  title     = {{AutoGPT}},
  howpublished = {\url{https://github.com/Significant-Gravitas/AutoGPT}},
  year      = {2023},
}

@misc{codex2025,
  author    = {{OpenAI}},
  title     = {Introducing {Codex}: A Cloud-Based Software Engineering Agent},
  howpublished = {\url{https://openai.com/index/introducing-codex/}},
  year      = {2025},
}

@misc{openclaw2025,
  author    = {{OpenClaw AI}},
  title     = {{OpenClaw}: Personal {AI} Assistant},
  howpublished = {\url{https://openclaw.ai}},
  year      = {2025},
}

@misc{babyagi2023,
  author    = {Nakajima, Yohei},
  title     = {{BabyAGI}},
  howpublished = {\url{https://github.com/yoheinakajima/babyagi}},
  year      = {2023},
}

@misc{copilot2021,
  author    = {{GitHub}},
  title     = {{GitHub Copilot}: Your {AI} Pair Programmer},
  howpublished = {\url{https://github.com/features/copilot}},
  year      = {2021},
}

@misc{cursor2024,
  author    = {{Cursor}},
  title     = {{Cursor}: The {AI}-First Code Editor},
  howpublished = {\url{https://cursor.sh}},
  year      = {2024},
}

@misc{windsurf2024,
  author    = {{Codeium}},
  title     = {{Windsurf}: The {AI}-Powered {IDE}},
  howpublished = {\url{https://windsurf.com}},
  year      = {2024},
}

@inproceedings{jimenez2024swebench,
  author    = {Jimenez, Carlos E. and Yang, John and Wettig, Alexander and Yao, Shunyu and Pei, Kexin and Press, Ofir and Narasimhan, Karthik},
  title     = {{SWE-bench}: Can Language Models Resolve Real-World {GitHub} Issues?},
  booktitle = {International Conference on Learning Representations (ICLR)},
  year      = {2024},
}

@article{xia2024agentless,
  author    = {Xia, Chunqiu Steven and Deng, Yinlin and Dunn, Soren and Zhang, Lingming},
  title     = {Agentless: Demystifying {LLM}-Based Software Engineering Agents},
  journal   = {arXiv preprint arXiv:2407.01489},
  year      = {2024},
}

@misc{claudecode2025,
  author    = {{Anthropic}},
  title     = {{Claude Code}: Anthropic's Agentic Coding System},
  howpublished = {\url{https://www.anthropic.com/product/claude-code}},
  year      = {2025},
}

@misc{devin2024,
  author    = {{Cognition Labs}},
  title     = {{Devin}: The First {AI} Software Engineer},
  howpublished = {\url{https://devin.ai}},
  year      = {2024},
}

@misc{aider2023,
  author    = {Gauthier, Paul},
  title     = {{Aider}: {AI} Pair Programming in Your Terminal},
  howpublished = {\url{https://github.com/paul-gauthier/aider}},
  year      = {2023},
}

@inproceedings{wei2022chain,
  author    = {Wei, Jason and Wang, Xuezhi and Schuurmans, Dale and Bosma, Maarten and Ichter, Brian and Xia, Fei and Chi, Ed and Le, Quoc and Zhou, Denny},
  title     = {Chain-of-Thought Prompting Elicits Reasoning in Large Language Models},
  booktitle = {Advances in Neural Information Processing Systems (NeurIPS)},
  year      = {2022},
}

@inproceedings{yao2023tree,
  author    = {Yao, Shunyu and Yu, Dian and Zhao, Jeffrey and Shafran, Izhak and Griffiths, Thomas L. and Cao, Yuan and Narasimhan, Karthik},
  title     = {Tree of Thoughts: Deliberate Problem Solving with Large Language Models},
  booktitle = {Advances in Neural Information Processing Systems (NeurIPS)},
  year      = {2023},
}

@inproceedings{shinn2023reflexion,
  author    = {Shinn, Noah and Cassano, Federico and Gopinath, Ashwin and Narasimhan, Karthik and Yao, Shunyu},
  title     = {Reflexion: Language Agents with Verbal Reinforcement Learning},
  booktitle = {Advances in Neural Information Processing Systems (NeurIPS)},
  year      = {2023},
}

@inproceedings{qian2024chatdev,
  author    = {Qian, Chen and Liu, Wei and Liu, Hongzhang and Chen, Nuo and Dang, Yufan and Li, Jiahao and Yang, Cheng and Chen, Weize and Su, Yusheng and Cong, Xin and Xu, Juyuan and Li, Dahai and Liu, Zhiyuan and Sun, Maosong},
  title     = {{ChatDev}: Communicative Agents for Software Development},
  booktitle = {Proceedings of the 62nd Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL)},
  year      = {2024},
}

@inproceedings{hong2024metagpt,
  author    = {Hong, Sirui and Zhuge, Mingchen and Chen, Jonathan and Zheng, Xiawu and Cheng, Yuheng and Zhang, Ceyao and Wang, Jinlin and Wang, Zili and Yau, Steven Ka Shing and Lin, Zijuan and Zhou, Liyang and Ran, Chenyu and Xiao, Lingfeng and Wu, Chenglin and Schmidhuber, J\"{u}rgen},
  title     = {{MetaGPT}: Meta Programming for a Multi-Agent Collaborative Framework},
  booktitle = {International Conference on Learning Representations (ICLR)},
  year      = {2024},
}

@article{wu2023autogen,
  author    = {Wu, Qingyun and Bansal, Gagan and Zhang, Jieyu and Wu, Yiran and Li, Beibin and Zhu, Erkang and Jiang, Li and Zhang, Xiaoyun and Zhang, Shaokun and Liu, Jiale and Awadallah, Ahmed Hassan and White, Ryen W. and Burger, Doug and Wang, Chi},
  title     = {{AutoGen}: Enabling Next-Gen {LLM} Applications via Multi-Agent Conversation},
  journal   = {arXiv preprint arXiv:2308.08155},
  year      = {2023},
}

@article{li2023starcoder,
  author    = {Li, Raymond and Allal, Loubna Ben and Zi, Yangtian and Muennighoff, Niklas and Kocetkov, Denis and Mou, Chenghao and Marone, Marc and Akiki, Christopher and Li, Jia and Chim, Jenny and others},
  title     = {{StarCoder}: May the Source Be with You!},
  journal   = {Transactions on Machine Learning Research (TMLR)},
  year      = {2023},
}

@article{guo2024deepseek,
  author    = {Guo, Daya and Zhu, Qihao and Yang, Dejian and Xie, Zhenda and Dong, Kai and Zhang, Wentao and Chen, Guanting and Bi, Xiao and Wu, Y. and Li, Y. K. and Luo, Fuli and Xiong, Yun and Liang, Wenfeng},
  title     = {{DeepSeek-Coder}: When the Large Language Model Meets Programming --- The Rise of Code Intelligence},
  journal   = {arXiv preprint arXiv:2401.14196},
  year      = {2024},
}

@article{austin2021program,
  author    = {Austin, Jacob and Odena, Augustus and Nye, Maxwell and Bosma, Maarten and Michalewski, Henryk and Dohan, David and Jiang, Ellen and Cai, Carrie and Terry, Michael and Le, Quoc and Sutton, Charles},
  title     = {Program Synthesis with Large Language Models},
  journal   = {arXiv preprint arXiv:2108.07732},
  year      = {2021},
}

@misc{langchain2022,
  author    = {{LangChain}},
  title     = {{LangChain}: Build Context-Aware Reasoning Applications},
  howpublished = {\url{https://github.com/langchain-ai/langchain}},
  year      = {2022},
}

@article{xi2023rise,
  author    = {Xi, Zhiheng and Chen, Wenxiang and Guo, Xin and He, Wei and Ding, Yiwen and Hong, Boyang and Zhang, Ming and Wang, Junzhe and Jin, Senjie and Zhou, Enyu and others},
  title     = {The Rise and Potential of Large Language Model Based Agents: A Survey},
  journal   = {arXiv preprint arXiv:2309.07864},
  year      = {2023},
}

@article{wang2024survey,
  author    = {Wang, Lei and Ma, Chen and Feng, Xueyang and Zhang, Zeyu and Yang, Hao and Zhang, Jingsen and Chen, Zhiyuan and Tang, Jiakai and Chen, Xu and Lin, Yankai and Zhao, Wayne Xin and Wei, Zhewei and Wen, Ji-Rong},
  title     = {A Survey on Large Language Model Based Autonomous Agents},
  journal   = {Frontiers of Computer Science},
  volume    = {18},
  number    = {6},
  pages     = {186345},
  year      = {2024},
}

@article{hassan2025agentic,
  author    = {Hassan, Ahmed E. and Li, Hao and Lin, Dayi and Adams, Bram and Chen, Tse-Hsun and Kashiwa, Yutaro and Qiu, Dong},
  title     = {Agentic Software Engineering: Foundational Pillars and a Research Roadmap},
  journal   = {arXiv preprint arXiv:2509.06216},
  year      = {2025},
}

@article{li2025rise,
  author    = {Li, Hao and Zhang, Haoxiang and Hassan, Ahmed E.},
  title     = {The Rise of {AI} Teammates in Software Engineering ({SE}~3.0): How Autonomous Coding Agents are Reshaping Software Engineering},
  journal   = {arXiv preprint arXiv:2507.15003},
  year      = {2025},
}

@article{deng2025swebenchpro,
  author    = {Deng, Xiang and Da, Jeff and Pan, Edwin and He, Yannis Yiming and Ide, Charles and Garg, Kanak and Lauffer, Niklas and Park, Andrew and Pasari, Nitin and Rane, Chetan and others},
  title     = {{SWE-Bench Pro}: Can {AI} Agents Solve Long-Horizon Software Engineering Tasks?},
  journal   = {arXiv preprint arXiv:2509.16941},
  year      = {2025},
}

@article{prathifkumar2025swebenchverified,
  author    = {Prathifkumar, Thanosan and Mathews, Noble Saji and Nagappan, Meiyappan},
  title     = {Does {SWE-Bench-Verified} Test Agent Ability or Model Memory?},
  journal   = {arXiv preprint arXiv:2512.10218},
  year      = {2025},
}

@article{horikawa2025agentic,
  author    = {Horikawa, Kosei and Li, Hao and Kashiwa, Yutaro and Adams, Bram and Iida, Hajimu and Hassan, Ahmed E.},
  title     = {Agentic Refactoring: An Empirical Study of {AI} Coding Agents},
  journal   = {arXiv preprint arXiv:2511.04824},
  year      = {2025},
}

@article{wang2025agentic,
  author    = {Wang, Huanting and Gong, Jingzhi and Zhang, Huawei and Xu, Jie and Wang, Zheng},
  title     = {{AI} Agentic Programming: A Survey of Techniques, Challenges, and Opportunities},
  journal   = {arXiv preprint arXiv:2508.11126},
  year      = {2025},
}

@article{chatlatanagulchai2025readmes,
  author    = {Chatlatanagulchai, Worawalan and Li, Hao and Kashiwa, Yutaro and Reid, Brittany and Thonglek, Kundjanasith and Leelaprute, Pattara and Rungsawang, Arnon and Manaskasemsak, Bundit and Adams, Bram and Hassan, Ahmed E. and Iida, Hajimu},
  title     = {Agent {README}s: An Empirical Study of Context Files for Agentic Coding},
  journal   = {arXiv preprint arXiv:2511.12884},
  year      = {2025},
}

@article{mohsenimofidi2025context,
  author    = {Mohsenimofidi, Seyedmoein and Galster, Matthias and Treude, Christoph and Baltes, Sebastian},
  title     = {Context Engineering for {AI} Agents in Open-Source Software},
  journal   = {arXiv preprint arXiv:2510.21413},
  year      = {2025},
}

@article{robeyns2025selfimproving,
  author    = {Robeyns, Maxime and Szummer, Martin and Aitchison, Laurence},
  title     = {A Self-Improving Coding Agent},
  journal   = {arXiv preprint arXiv:2504.15228},
  year      = {2025},
}

@article{gao2025trae,
  author    = {Gao, Pengfei and Tian, Zhao and Meng, Xiangxin and {Trae Research Team}},
  title     = {Trae Agent: An {LLM}-Based Agent for Software Engineering with Test-Time Scaling},
  journal   = {arXiv preprint arXiv:2507.23370},
  year      = {2025},
}

@article{cursor2026composer2,
  author    = {{Cursor Research}},
  title     = {Composer~2 Technical Report},
  journal   = {arXiv preprint arXiv:2603.24477},
  year      = {2026},
}

@inproceedings{agrawal2025gepa,
  author    = {Agrawal, Lakshya A. and Tan, Shangyin and Soylu, Dilara and Ziems, Noah and Khare, Rishi and Opsahl-Ong, Krista and Singhvi, Arnav and Shandilya, Herumb and Ryan, Michael J. and Jiang, Meng and Potts, Christopher and Sen, Koushik and Dimakis, Alexandros G. and Stoica, Ion and Klein, Dan and Zaharia, Matei and Khattab, Omar},
  title     = {{GEPA}: Reflective Prompt Evolution Can Outperform Reinforcement Learning},
  booktitle = {International Conference on Learning Representations (ICLR)},
  year      = {2026},
  note      = {Oral. arXiv preprint arXiv:2507.19457},
}

@article{novikov2025alphaevolve,
  author    = {Novikov, Alexander and V\~{u}, Ng\^{a}n and Eisenberger, Marvin and Dupont, Emilien and Huang, Po-Sen and Wagner, Adam Zsolt and Shirobokov, Sergey and Kozlovskii, Borislav and Ruiz, Francisco J. R. and Mehrabian, Abbas and Kumar, M. Pawan and See, Abigail and Chaudhuri, Swarat and Holland, George and Davies, Alex and Nowozin, Sebastian and Kohli, Pushmeet and Balog, Matej},
  title     = {{AlphaEvolve}: A Coding Agent for Scientific and Algorithmic Discovery},
  journal   = {arXiv preprint arXiv:2506.13131},
  year      = {2025},
}

@misc{openevolve2025,
  author    = {{Algorithmic Superintelligence}},
  title     = {{OpenEvolve}: Open-Source Implementation of {AlphaEvolve}},
  howpublished = {\url{https://github.com/algorithmicsuperintelligence/openevolve}},
  year      = {2025},
}

@misc{getshitdone2025,
  author    = {{GetShitDone}},
  title     = {{GetShitDone}: Prompt Engineering for Coding Agents},
  howpublished = {\url{https://github.com/gsd-build/get-shit-done}},
  year      = {2025},
}

@misc{stein2026cheatingblog,
  author    = {Stein, Adam and Brown, Davis and Hassani, Hamed and Naik, Mayur and Wong, Eric},
  title     = {Finding Widespread Cheating on Popular Agent Benchmarks},
  howpublished = {Blog post, \url{https://debugml.github.io/cheating-agents/}},
  year      = {2026},
}

@article{stein2026detecting,
  author    = {Stein, Adam and Brown, Davis and Hassani, Hamed and Naik, Mayur and Wong, Eric},
  title     = {Detecting Safety Violations Across Many Agent Traces},
  journal   = {arXiv preprint arXiv:2604.11806},
  year      = {2026},
}

@misc{wang2026trustworthyblog,
  author    = {Wang, Hao and Mang, Qiuyang and Cheung, Alvin and Sen, Koushik and Song, Dawn},
  title     = {We Scored 100\% on {AI} Benchmarks Without Solving a Single Problem},
  howpublished = {Blog post, \url{https://moogician.github.io/blog/2026/trustworthy-benchmarks/}},
  year      = {2026},
}

@article{kimiteam2026k25,
  author    = {{Kimi Team}},
  title     = {Kimi {K2.5}: Visual Agentic Intelligence},
  journal   = {arXiv preprint arXiv:2602.02276},
  year      = {2026},
}

@misc{zai2026glm51,
  author    = {{Z.ai}},
  title     = {{GLM-5.1}: Towards Long-Horizon Tasks},
  howpublished = {Technical blog, \url{https://z.ai/blog/glm-5.1}},
  year      = {2026},
}

@misc{anthropic2026opus46,
  author    = {{Anthropic}},
  title     = {Introducing {Claude} {Opus}~4.6},
  howpublished = {\url{https://www.anthropic.com/news/claude-opus-4-6}},
  year      = {2026},
}

@article{jain2024livecodebench,
  author    = {Naman Jain and King Han and Alex Gu and Wen-Ding Li and Fanjia Yan and Tianjun Zhang and Sida Wang and Armando Solar-Lezama and Koushik Sen and Ion Stoica},
  title     = {{LiveCodeBench}: Holistic and Contamination Free Evaluation of Large Language Models for Code},
  journal   = {arXiv preprint arXiv:2403.07974},
  year      = {2024},
}
