The authors organize verification into four layers: initial instructions, reminders during execution, completion gates that reopen work for self-checking, and independent review that sends a critic’s findings back to the agent for repair.
Independent review improves coding agents with less overhead than completion gates
Across seven coding models, Zhang and colleagues find that a separate critic improves benchmark accuracy at relatively modest additional cost.
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Zhengxin Zhang · Erkang Zhu · Yin Lin · Claire Cardie · Bolin Ding · Jingren Zhou
Cornell University · Alibaba Group
Research Digest··2 min read
Zhang and colleagues compare 17 ways to organize verification in coding-agent harnesses, the software that coordinates a model’s tools, instructions and workflow.
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