Guided code reasoning improves agents’ repository issue resolution

DeskCheck systematically simulates execution, audits patches and designs corner-case tests, outperforming two existing agent scaffolds on SWE-bench-Pro.

Independent
Changshu Liu · Ji young Kim · Alireza Ghazanfari · Saanvi Nallu · Reyhaneh Jabbarvand
Research Digest··3 min read
95 percent of them, with greater reasoning associated with higher success.

The authors studied trajectories from six single-agent and multi-agent scaffolds across SWE-bench-Verified, SWE-bench-Pro and SWE-bench-Lite.

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Research Digest

Written by Alwyn Sage, research editor. Plate by Ollie Flash, picture desk.

first published 19 Oct, 5:39 pm
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