Coding agents retrieve better by targeting missing evidence sets

A state-aware retrieval method assembled complete evidence for coding decisions more often than passage-by-passage ranking baselines.

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Zhexi Feng · Ruiyi Zhang · Yongbo Yang · Pengtao Xie

University of California San Diego

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The authors built SERBench from 500 held-out coding-agent states across 45 repositories.

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From University of California San Diego · Part of Context Engineering for Agents, now 23 papers

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Retrieval for coding agents should recover a minimal set of evidence that completes what the agent still lacks, not re-rank relevant passages.

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