What Context Does a Coding Agent Actually Need to Act?
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arXiv:2607.09691v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: A modern coding agent can hold an entire repository in its context window. Most of its reading is wasted -- and the interesting question is not how much context an agent can use, but what it actually \emph{needs}. We study that question at the moment it matters most: when the agent must \emph{edit} code. Separating \emph{finding} the work site from \emph{acting} on it, we hold localization fixed with an oracle, vary only how the code is…
1Key Takeaways
- arXiv:2607.09691v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: A modern coding agent can hold an entire repository in its context window.
- Most of its reading is wasted -- and the interesting question is not how much context an agent can use, but what it actually \emph{needs}.
- We study that question at the moment it matters most: when the agent must \emph{edit} code.
- Separating \emph{finding} the work site from \emph{acting} on it, we hold localization fixed with an oracle, vary only how the code is….
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