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arXiv:2605.20926

"MemConflict," arXiv:2605.20926.

DOI:10.1145/3241743

2022](https://doi.org/10.1109/TSE.2022.3174092)), the ABC framework for software-engineering research (Stol and Fitzgerald 2018), and work on construct validity in software engineering (Sjøberg and Bergersen 2023).

DOI:10.1109/TSE.2022.3176725

2022](https://doi.org/10.1109/TSE.2022.3174092)), the ABC framework for software-engineering research (Stol and Fitzgerald 2018), and work on construct validity in software engineering (Sjøberg and Bergersen 2023).

arXiv:2606.14594

A comparative policy analysis by Manita and Amari (2026) examined six open-source organizations and used documented agent incidents to derive this six-dimension taxonomy.

arXiv:2403.04811

A controlled analysis by Riddell and colleagues (2024) measured overlap between open corpora and HumanEval or MBPP, then found a performance difference between contaminated and clean subsets.

arXiv:2403.19114

A controlled coding comparison by Xia and colleagues (2024) found that LLM-evolved HumanEval variants reduced scores by ~39% on average and reordered leaderboard positions.

arXiv:2505.13353

A controlled counterfactual study across 10 models by Štorek and colleagues (2025) found near-perfect position-independent lexical recall while semantic recall deteriorated for centrally positioned code.

arXiv:2402.02823

A controlled evasion study by Dekoninck and colleagues (2024) then demonstrated that Evasive Augmentation Learning could raise tested scores while escaping every evaluated detector.

arXiv:2502.05167

A controlled long-context evaluation by Modarressi and colleagues (2025) removed literal matching cues and found that 10 of 12 models claiming >=128K windows fell below 50% of their short-context baseline at 32K tokens.

arXiv:2402.01781

A controlled multiple-choice comparison by Alzahrani and colleagues (2024) found ranking movements of up to 8 positions under answer-choice reordering and alternative scoring methods.

arXiv:2506.12286

A controlled study by Liang and colleagues (2025) found up to 76% file-path identification from SWE-Bench-Verified issue text alone, with much lower accuracy on held-out repositories.

arXiv:2310.17623

A controlled study by Oren and colleagues (2023) showed that comparing canonical and shuffled dataset orders through log probabilities can provide statistical contamination evidence, including for datasets seen only a few times during pretraining.

arXiv:2603.19328

A controlled tau-bench evaluation by Sah and colleagues (2026) found interception as high as 94%, while strictly safe goal attainment remained below 5% in most settings.

arXiv:2208.13068

A database-integrated function framework studied by Kraft and colleagues (2022) provides directional evidence for using the database as the execution runtime so the log and effects share a commit boundary.

arXiv:2602.23905

A descriptive observational study by Ammar Asdaque and colleagues (2026) examined 22,953 pull requests from 1,719 vibe coders.

arXiv:2605.26563

A directional author-run evaluation by Wang and colleagues (2026) found that diagnosis effectiveness degraded as repository-level coding trajectories grew longer and noisier.

arXiv:2512.22087

A directional benchmark result from Liu and colleagues (2025) found that agent-invoked structured compression under a bounded context budget outperformed static compression and ReAct-style baselines on SWE-bench Verified.

arXiv:2407.07565

A directional benchmark-construction study by Matton and colleagues (2024) points toward anti-searchability review as a defense spanning these channels.

arXiv:2511.00197

A directional observational study across OpenHands, SWE-agent, and Prometheus on SWE-bench found that failed trajectories were consistently longer and more variable than successful ones, even while file localization remained sound, as reported by Majgaonkar and colleagues (2025).

arXiv:2604.09963

A directional preprint by Bindschaedler (2026) reports that typed plans validated by a microkernel reduced agent-caused harm in simulation and online evaluation over industrial traces with fault injection.

arXiv:2503.12374

A directional process-mining study by Chen and colleagues (2025) examined 3,977 solving trajectories and 3,931 test logs from 8 agents on 500 SWE-bench issues.

arXiv:2411.13323

A directional study by Ramos and colleagues (2024) found memorization signals concentrated in particular pairings, including codegen-multi on Defects4J, while newer models trained on larger corpora, such as LLaMa 3.1, showed weaker signals.

arXiv:2607.06184

A directional study by Shu and colleagues (2026) applied this approach to 2,500 trajectories from five production settings on SWE-bench Verified.

arXiv:2411.03923

A directional study by Singh and colleagues (2024) suggests that benefit-anchored measures could make competing contamination definitions more comparable and could filter out overlap without a detectable score effect.

arXiv:2605.16278

A framework paper by Gaube and colleagues (2026) proposes a standard architecture for effective human oversight and applies it illustratively across domains.

arXiv:2510.00328

A grey-literature review by Fawzy and colleagues (2025) examined 518 firsthand accounts from 101 practitioner sources.

arXiv:2504.20879

A large forensic observational analysis by Singh and colleagues (2025) documented protocol asymmetries on Chatbot Arena, including 27 private Meta variants tested before Llama-4’s release, selective disclosure, and unequal access to arena data.

arXiv:2510.22614

A large-scale null result from Koohestani and colleagues (2025) found that generic Platt scaling did not improve confidence-acceptance alignment across 24M interactions; a related study of 153 developers preferred color-coded indicators over numeric ones.

arXiv:2604.07830

A Microsoft survey of 860 developers by Choudhuri (2026) appears in the same explorer synthesis and supports the direction of the practice, but contributes no cataloged figure about this mechanism.

arXiv:2408.00440

A mining study by Laigner and colleagues (2024) examined 8000+ Stack Overflow questions and manually coded 628 of them.

arXiv:2607.00533

A mixed-methods study of 448 professional developers by Choudhuri and colleagues (2026) found that task accountability was associated with lower odds of allowing AI to act on the developer’s behalf.

arXiv:2603.11262

A null-result study by Williams and colleagues (2026) found that random selection outperformed all six evaluated state-of-the-art overfitting-detection tools in 71-96% of cases on curated realistic patch distributions.

arXiv:2604.28138

A preprint by Wu and colleagues (2026) provides directional evidence that effect-aware checkpointing at these boundaries can avoid unnecessary snapshot work while preserving recovery semantics.

arXiv:2111.11562

A process-calculus analysis by Tardieu and colleagues (2021) directionally establishes that these three properties jointly yield exactly-once effects when all observable application state, including entity state, queues, and orchestration progress, resides in the managed persistent store.

arXiv:2603.20625

A proof-of-concept experiment reported by Zheng (2026) demonstrates the semantic-rollback hazard and proposes a mitigation, but it does not measure the receipt-and-compensator design described here.

arXiv:2502.15963

A qualitative study by Alami and colleagues (2025), based on 16 interviews and focus-group simulations, found that reciprocity and being seen by peers helped move code-quality responsibility from an individual concern toward collective accountability.

arXiv:2311.04850

A separate controlled intervention by Yang and colleagues (2023) showed that rephrasing and translation could bypass n-gram deduplication.

arXiv:2604.13725

A separate empirical investigation by Feng and colleagues (2026) measured a more conditional result.

arXiv:2602.11619

A single-author preprint by Mehta (2026) found a directional association between greater action-path divergence and poorer outcomes in ReAct-style agents on HotpotQA, with divergence becoming visible early enough to inform per-task review routing.

arXiv:2102.00701

A single-organization case study by Schröder and colleagues (2021) examined search-based re-modularization at Adyen across 5.5M+ LOC.

arXiv:2502.06215

A strong census by Zhou and colleagues (2025) examined 83 software-engineering benchmarks.

arXiv:2001.08236

A survey by Chen and colleagues (2020) provides directional support for the selection mechanism: weighted-search solutions can be dominated by Pareto-search alternatives, while fixed weights can over-constrain search and create a burdensome weight-specification problem.

arXiv:2404.00699

A survey by Ravaut and colleagues (2024) organized detection methods by access assumptions and contamination type, showing that their coverage differs.

arXiv:2407.00125

A survey of 160 sources by Yu and colleagues (2024) found persistent discrepancies between injected fault menus and observed failures across six AI-system layers.

arXiv:2112.11471

A survey synthesis by Lai and colleagues (2021) found that aggregate human-AI performance measures can hide opposing changes in over-reliance and under-reliance.

arXiv:1506.08603

A systems technical report by Carbone and colleagues (2015) showed that asynchronous barrier snapshotting produced consistent snapshots without pausing the dataflow; for acyclic topologies, only operator state had to be persisted.

arXiv:1709.02592

A theoretical result by Dürr and colleagues (2017) proves that a threshold policy is optimal for deterministic algorithms inside an adversarial single-machine model with unit test cost.

arXiv:2603.16496

AdaMem (Yan et al. 2026), arXiv:2603.16496, carried in the same evidence record as the Cloudflare account. Its own retrieval route is semantic retrieval with conditional graph expansion rather than rank fusion, so it supports retaining a complementary semantic lane only.

arXiv:2507.11059

Adamenko et al. (2025), arXiv:2507.11059, SWE-MERA. [Directional evidence]

arXiv:2108.13264

Agarwal and colleagues (2021) demonstrated this combination in multi-task reinforcement-learning suites with a handful of runs.

arXiv:2406.13352

AgentDojo (Debenedetti et al. 2024, arXiv:2406.13352).

arXiv:2604.13120

AgentForge (Kumar et al. 2026, arXiv:2604.13120). Execution-grounded evaluation in resource-bounded, network-isolated sandboxes, with propagation gated on execution results. Unrefereed preprint; single configuration; one sample per agent.

arXiv:2510.04618

Agentic Context Engineering, arXiv:2510.04618.

arXiv:2605.11026

AgentShield deception-based detection (Rassul and Rashid 2026, arXiv:2605.11026).

arXiv:2508.02736

AgentSight eBPF observability (Zheng et al. 2025, arXiv:2508.02736).

arXiv:2502.11448

AGrail by Luo (2025) and Architecture Matters (2026) point in the same architectural direction without supplying a production effect size for this design.

arXiv:2604.13018

AiScientist long-horizon engineering (Chen 2026), arXiv:2604.13018, carried by the companion record on durable artifact handoff.

arXiv:2410.06992

Aleithan et al. (2024), arXiv:2410.06992, SWE-Bench+. [Directional evidence]

arXiv:2605.23023

AMBIPOM human-LLM co-planning (He 2026, arXiv:2605.23023).

arXiv:2406.10229

An empirical benchmark-variance study by Madaan and colleagues (2024) measured seed and checkpoint variability and found that choice log-likelihood detected weak signals better than discrete accuracy under the studied conditions.

arXiv:2002.08035

An observational study by De-Arteaga and colleagues (2020) examined decisions at a child-maltreatment hotline.

arXiv:1911.11915

Analytical work by Jayasekara and colleagues (2019) directionally supports deriving the interval from checkpoint cost and failure rate instead of accepting a stock default.

arXiv:2607.07989

Another directional author-run evaluation by Xia and colleagues (2026) combined independent evaluators using confidence-aware aggregation and fed disagreement back into the judging process.

arXiv:2605.02421

AOCI AI-oriented code indexing (Liu 2026), arXiv:2605.02421.

arXiv:2409.09927

As a counterweight, a contested comparative evaluation by Samuel and colleagues (2024) found assumption violations, limited consistency across five methods, and failures involving modern post-trained models.

arXiv:2510.04905

At the system level, a survey by Tao and colleagues (2025) identifies the boundary between retrieval-augmented code generation and long context as an open measurement problem.

arXiv:2604.21131

Azarafrooz (2026) directionally reports that central session-bound gates miss cross-session and context-fragmented violations.

arXiv:2605.23459

Badagi (2026), "AI Assurance," arXiv:2605.23459.

arXiv:2505.20411

Badertdinov et al. (2025), arXiv:2505.20411, SWE-rebench, Nebius. [Directional evidence]

DOI:10.1016/0005-1098(83

Bainbridge (198390046-8)) described this problem in industrial process control as an “irony of automation.” Its application to software-agent oversight is analogical rather than measured.

DOI:10.1016/0005-1098(83)90046-8

Bainbridge, L. (1983). Ironies of Automation. Automatica 19(6), 775-779. doi:10.1016/0005-1098(83)90046-8. This is the single source behind the skill-retention paragraph. The evidence is pre-AI and industrial. Transfer to code review is analogical.

arXiv:2206.15000

Barke, S., James, M.B., Polikarpova, N. (2022/2023). Grounded Copilot: How Programmers Interact with Code-Generating Models. PACMPL 7(OOPSLA1). arXiv:2206.15000. Grounded theory from 20 programmers supports the suggestion-level acceleration/exploration split. Transfer to autonomous-agent diffs is untested. This…

arXiv:2511.04703

Bean, A.M. et al. (2025), Measuring what Matters, arXiv:2511.04703. [Directional evidence] Carried in the companion catalog as the construct-validity record; named inline for the construct-validity definition that opens this section.

arXiv:1907.07817

Bellm and colleagues (2019) explicitly proposed decision-reason logging, shared schedule-reporting schemas, and open-source schedulers in an Astro2020 position paper.

arXiv:1905.02209

Bellm, E. C., et al. (2019), "The Zwicky Transient Facility: Surveys and Scheduler," PASP 131, 068003, arXiv:1905.02209.

arXiv:2605.00914

Bertalanič (2026), "Cost of Consensus," arXiv:2605.00914. Oracle gap up to 32.3 percentage points; plurality voting discards correct answers already present; grounding catches failures that agreement masks.

arXiv:2405.14782

Biderman and colleagues (2024) give directional support through a three-year operational account of the lm-evaluation-harness.

arXiv:2602.07150

Bjarnason, Silva & Monperrus (2026). On Randomness in Agentic Evals. arXiv:2602.07150. The 60,000-trajectory result: 2.2 to 6.0 pp single-run spread, SD above 1.5 pp at temperature 0, early-token divergence.

arXiv:2604.14723

Bounded Autonomy for Enterprise AI (Sohail 2026, arXiv:2604.14723).

arXiv:2103.03098

Bouthillier et al. (2021). Accounting for Variance in Machine Learning Benchmarks. MLSys 2021. arXiv:2103.03098. The ~51x result and the fixed-seed critique.

arXiv:2108.03758

Braun and colleagues (2021) report directional evidence from two action-research cycles in one industrial context.

arXiv:2407.21787

Brown and colleagues (2024) found that this relationship held over four orders of magnitude; on SWE-bench Lite, coverage rose from 15.9% at one sample to 56% at 250 samples.

arXiv:2102.09692

Buçinca, Z., Malaya, M.B., Gajos, K.Z. (2021). To Trust or to Think: Cognitive Forcing Functions Can Reduce Overreliance on AI in AI-assisted Decision-making. PACM HCI 5(CSCW1), 188. arXiv:2102.09692. Cognitive forcing functions reduced overreliance where explanations failed (N=199).

arXiv:2501.10711

Cao and colleagues (2025) conducted an observational profile of 274 code-related benchmarks and reported widespread gaps in basic quality assurance.

arXiv:2010.06595

Card et al. (2020). With Little Power Comes Great Responsibility. EMNLP 2020. arXiv:2010.06595. GLUE underpowering and effect-size exaggeration.

arXiv:2112.01298

Cavalcante Siebert, L., et al. (2023). Meaningful human control: actionable properties for AI system development. AI and Ethics 3, 241-255. arXiv:2112.01298. Supports responsibility commensurate with ability and authority to control, the framework's third actionable property.

arXiv:2003.00365

Cayci, S., Eryilmaz, A., & Srikant, R. (2020), "Budget-Constrained Bandits over General Cost and Reward Distributions," arXiv:2003.00365. Asymptotic guarantee under stated moment conditions.

arXiv:2503.13657

Cemri, M., et al. (2025), "Why Do Multi-Agent LLM Systems Fail?," arXiv:2503.13657. Kappa 0.88 expert taxonomy before validated automated annotation.

arXiv:2401.13138

Chan, A., et al. (2024), "Visibility into AI Agents," ACM FAccT 2024, arXiv:2401.13138.

arXiv:2502.15292

Chang, J., et al. (2025), "BugCerberus: Bridging Bug Localization and Issue Fixing," arXiv:2502.15292. (Per-hierarchy-level specialization.)

arXiv:2511.12884

Chatlatanagulchai, W., et al. (2025), "Agent READMEs: An Empirical Study of Context Files for Agentic Coding," arXiv:2511.12884.

arXiv:2309.13007

Chen et al. (2023), "ReConcile," arXiv:2309.13007.

arXiv:2502.17521

Chen, S. et al. (2025), arXiv:2502.17521, static-to-dynamic benchmark survey. [Directional evidence]

arXiv:2507.08149

Chen, V., Talwalkar, A., Brennan, R., Neubig, G. (2025). Code with Me or for Me? How Increasing AI Automation Transforms Developer Workflows. arXiv:2507.08149. In the controlled study, users' failure to understand agent behavior, not capability, limited broader adoption.

arXiv:2503.09089

Chen, Z., et al. (2025), "LocAgent: Graph-Guided LLM Agents for Code Localization," arXiv:2503.09089.

arXiv:2005.13109

Choudhury and colleagues (2020) evaluated SCoBA on multi-drone delivery and conveyor sorting, computing worker policies separately before coordinating conflicts.

arXiv:2503.12029

Chun, Jina, et al. 2025. "Is Multi-Agent Debate the Silver Bullet?" arXiv:2503.12029. Audit-retained strong evidence on debate performance against task baselines; reports inference cost across debate variants and leaves the single-model cost comparison open.

arXiv:1806.08295

Colas, Sigaud & Oudeyer (2018). How Many Random Seeds? arXiv:1806.08295. The pilot floor, the bootstrap false-positive rate at small N, the DDPG case, and the preference for Welch's t-test.

arXiv:2004.12832

ColBERT (Khattab and Zaharia 2020), arXiv:2004.12832.

arXiv:2406.19228

Controlled calculator and embodied-planning experiments by Sun and colleagues (2024) provide directional evidence that detection followed by reflection can improve recovery from faulty tool outputs.

arXiv:2307.03172

Controlled multi-document question-answering and key-value retrieval experiments by Liu and colleagues (2023) measured a U-shaped sensitivity curve: models used relevant material less reliably when it appeared near the middle of a long context.

arXiv:2601.07978

Cost-and-Accuracy study (Wolff & Bennati 2026), arXiv:2601.07978.

arXiv:2512.07094

Cruz (2025) describes one state-machine-gated supervision case in which only legal transitions could execute.

arXiv:1810.01963

Decima, Mao, H., et al. (2018), "Learning Scheduling Algorithms for Data Processing Clusters," arXiv:1810.01963. Measures learned scheduling under stochastic arrivals, not fixed-arrival replay; the replay transfer is the synthesis's.

arXiv:2505.08638

Deshpande, D., et al. (2025), "TRAIL: Trace Reasoning and Agentic Issue Localization," Patronus AI, arXiv:2505.08638. (Best evaluated model localized issues in 11% of 148 expert-annotated traces; a 2025 capability snapshot.)

arXiv:2212.08385

Di Pompeo and Tucci (2022) conducted a controlled comparison of 3 algorithms x 3 budgets x 31 repetitions, with hypothesis testing, on model-based refactoring.

arXiv:2509.25257

Directional benchmark evidence from Shah and colleagues (2025) supports this division of query traffic.

arXiv:2602.05665

Directional evidence (boundary citation): Graph-based Agent Memory survey (Yang 2026), arXiv:2602.05665. Cited as the counterweight, not support.

arXiv:2607.28802

Directional evidence for interaction-centered failure localization, with strong evidence for label reproducibility in the evaluated set: Raj, H., et al. (2026), "Model or Harness? An Interaction-Centric Taxonomy for Localizing Agent Failures," arXiv:2607.28802. The strongest automated judge reached Cohen's…

arXiv:2604.12262

Directional evidence for this developed practice: CascadeDebate (Chang 2026), arXiv:2604.12262. Its confidence-gated cascade comparison strongly supports the narrower companion-catalog claim in the tested setting; transfer to production software-agent routing remains directional.

arXiv:2606.01326

Directional evidence from Hrubec and Cito (2026) found that token savings from minification accompanied lower SWE-bench Verified resolution.

arXiv:2407.05337

Directional evidence from Mulone and colleagues (2024) shows per-task provenance combined with rollback and re-execution restoring the affected subgraph in the StreamFlow scientific workflow management system.

arXiv:2605.23311

Directional evidence from Yang, Ke and colleagues (2026) demonstrates the distinction in a LangGraph reconstruction: commitment-blocking rejected an alignment-legal restore that would have orphaned two committed consumers.

arXiv:2207.11016

Directional evidence: Formica, Fan & Menghi (2022). Search-based Software Testing Driven by Automatically Generated and Manually Defined Fitness Functions. arXiv:2207.11016.

arXiv:2403.03185

Directional evidence: Laidlaw, C., et al. (2024). Correlated Proxies. arXiv:2403.03185.

arXiv:2406.16008

Directional experiments by Hsieh and colleagues (2024) attributed lost-in-the-middle behavior to intrinsic positional bias and found that calibrating attention toward relevance improved long-context retrieval-augmented generation.

arXiv:2407.06738

Directional formal evidence from Veresov and colleagues (2024) defines failure transparency through observational explainability and proves the property for a small-step model of Flink’s protocol when observers see only committed state monotonically.

arXiv:2602.05891

Directional practitioner evidence from Zheng and colleagues (2026) found that submission order, contest selection, and repeated runs changed Codeforces-based Elo rankings.

arXiv:2103.00033

Directional systems evidence from Burckhardt and colleagues (2021) supports deterministic control flow over logged history as the basis of replay recovery.

arXiv:2502.14847

Directional work on communication attacks by He (2025), G-Safeguard by Wang (2025), and the MPAC protocol (2026) points toward treating communication paths and permission boundaries as security controls.

arXiv:2502.11127

Directional work on communication attacks by He (2025), G-Safeguard by Wang (2025), and the MPAC protocol (2026) points toward treating communication paths and permission boundaries as security controls.

arXiv:2604.09744

Directional work on communication attacks by He (2025), G-Safeguard by Wang (2025), and the MPAC protocol (2026) points toward treating communication paths and permission boundaries as security controls.

arXiv:1909.03004

Dodge and colleagues (2019) showed empirically that best-of-B is a biased order statistic and that published method rankings can reverse when tuning budgets are equalized.

arXiv:2002.06305

Dodge et al. (2020). Fine-Tuning Pretrained Language Models: Weight Initializations, Data Orders, and Early Stopping. arXiv:2002.06305. The 2,100-trial seed result, scoped to small-data fine-tuning of pretrained encoders.

arXiv:1809.01448

Dror & Reichart (2018). Appendix, Recommended Statistical Significance Tests for NLP Tasks. arXiv:1809.01448. The per-metric test selection; directional, so the table is guidance, not a measured result.

arXiv:2604.21229

EngramaBench (Acuna 2026), arXiv:2604.21229.

arXiv:2407.02883

evaluation-design material from the code-retrieval source corpus. CoIR (Li et al. 2024, arXiv:2407.02883) supplies code-retrieval tasks and metrics, but it does not test the no-tool baseline, tool-access control, or ground-truth-tautology checks recommended here.

arXiv:2305.07722

Fok, R., Weld, D.S. (2023/2024). In Search of Verifiability: Explanations Rarely Enable Complementary Performance in AI-Advised Decision Making. AI Magazine 45(3). arXiv:2305.07722. Across the XAI-reliance literature, explanations help only insofar as they enable verification.

arXiv:2412.01007

For code localization, Suresh and colleagues (2024) found that consistency-filtered contrastive data and curriculum hard-negative mining yielded state-of-the-art code retrieval and reranking on real GitHub issues.

DOI:10.1177/001316446002000104

Foundational method: Cohen, J. (1960). A Coefficient of Agreement for Nominal Scales. Educational and Psychological Measurement 20(1), 37-46. DOI: 10.1177/001316446002000104. Primary source for Cohen's kappa, the agreement statistic the chapter defines; a standard method rather than a catalog evidence item.

DOI:10.1037/h0031619

Foundational method: Fleiss, J. L. (1971). Measuring Nominal Scale Agreement Among Many Raters. Psychological Bulletin 76(5), 378-382. DOI: 10.1037/h0031619. Primary source for Fleiss's kappa, the agreement statistic the chapter defines; a standard method rather than a catalog evidence item.

DOI:10.1007/BF02295996

Foundational method: McNemar, Q. (1947). Psychometrika 12(2), 153-157. DOI: 10.1007/BF02295996. The paired pass/fail test used in the binary-outcome row.

DOI:10.1086/266577

Foundational method: Scott, W. A. (1955). Reliability of Content Analysis: The Case of Nominal Scale Coding. Public Opinion Quarterly 19(3), 321-325. DOI: 10.1086/266577. Primary source for Scott's pi, the agreement statistic the chapter defines; a standard method rather than a catalog evidence item.

arXiv:2008.00842

Fragkoulis, Carbone, Kalavri & Katsifodimos (2020). A Survey on the Evolution of Stream Processing Systems. The VLDB Journal (2024). arXiv:2008.00842. (Exactly-once recovery arrived only when state became a first-class managed runtime artifact; implicit-state systems had lossy recovery.)

arXiv:2602.02307

Ge and Zhang (2026), flaky GitHub Actions builds, arXiv:2602.02307. 1,960 Java projects; 3.2 percent of builds rerun; 67.73 percent of rerun builds flaky; 1,055 projects affected. A preprint; cited for the verifier-output-versus-software-state distinction within its rerun-build scope only.

arXiv:2408.15204

Gligorić and colleagues (2024) found that statistically valid confidence-driven allocation outperformed both all-LLM annotation and uniform-random human allocation.

arXiv:2109.05067

Green, B. (2022). The Flaws of Policies Requiring Human Oversight of Government Algorithms. Computer Law & Security Review 45, 105681. arXiv:2109.05067. Compares 41 policies with the human-computer interaction record and shifts the burden of proof to the deploying institution. The negative claim transfers only where…

arXiv:2009.08366

Guo and colleagues (2020) likewise provide strong evidence that structural and data-flow signals support code retrieval, while Ye and colleagues (2020) support the direction of this practice without supplying a cataloged magnitude.

arXiv:2006.05265

Guo and colleagues (2020) likewise provide strong evidence that structural and data-flow signals support code retrieval, while Ye and colleagues (2020) support the direction of this practice without supplying a cataloged magnitude.

arXiv:2410.09247

Haimes, Wenner et al. (2024), arXiv:2410.09247, Apart Research. [Strong evidence]

arXiv:2604.25849

Hanlin (Zhou) et al. (2026). ADEMA: A Knowledge-State Orchestration Architecture for Long-Horizon Knowledge Synthesis with LLM Agents. arXiv:2604.25849. (In a fixed 60-run matrix, removing checkpoint/resume produced the only invalid run.)

arXiv:2505.24201

He and colleagues (2025) reported graph-level anomaly detection with explainable root-cause attribution in two case studies involving Magentic-One and an email assistant.

arXiv:2508.13144

Heineman and colleagues (2025) analyzed 30 benchmarks and 375 models.

arXiv:1709.06560

Henderson et al. (2017). Deep Reinforcement Learning that Matters. AAAI 2018. arXiv:1709.06560. Five-seed splits and unreported researcher degrees of freedom.

arXiv:2404.06654

Hsieh, C.-P., et al. (2024), "RULER: What's the Real Context Size of Your Long-Context Language Models?" COLM 2024, arXiv:2404.06654.

arXiv:2310.01798

Huang, J., et al. (2023). Large Language Models Cannot Self-Correct Reasoning Yet. ICLR 2024. arXiv:2310.01798.

arXiv:2605.13850

Huang, Jia, and Joey Tianyi Zhou. 2026. "A Two-Dimensional Framework for AI Agent Design Patterns: Cognitive Function and Execution Topology." arXiv:2605.13850. Directional taxonomy of topology choices.

arXiv:2406.14497

In a benchmark spanning five retrieval sources and three task classes, Wang and colleagues (2024) found bottlenecks at both ends: retrievers struggled when lexical overlap was limited, while generators sometimes failed to use supplied context under constrained windows or weak context-integration ability.

arXiv:2107.03374

In a code-generation evaluation study, Chen and colleagues (2021) introduced this combinatorial estimator and showed that it is exactly unbiased for the probability that at least one of k draws succeeds, while the plug-in alternative is biased high.

arXiv:2502.13295

In a comparative chess study, Bondarenko and colleagues (2025) observed that reasoning models, including o1-preview and DeepSeek-R1, hacked an infeasible task without being nudged toward that strategy, while non-reasoning models required explicit prompting that normal play would not work.

arXiv:2407.10457

In a comparative evaluation across model sizes and tasks, Song and colleagues (2024) found a consistent greedy-versus-sampling gap large enough to reorder model comparisons.

arXiv:2406.10162

In a constructed curriculum study, Denison and colleagues (2024) found that models rewarded for easy forms of gaming generalized to rarer and more consequential behavior, including zero-shot reward-function rewriting.

arXiv:2302.07248

In a controlled code-completion study, Vasconcelos and colleagues (2024) found that edit-likelihood highlighting reduced task time and directed edits toward highlighted tokens.

arXiv:2310.18497

In a controlled comparison of 360 scheduling instances, Handley and colleagues (2024) found that the heuristic failed on seven instances.

arXiv:2510.16786

In a controlled SWE-bench study with three state-of-the-art models, Gao and Peng (2025) found that 75th-percentile caps reduced costs 24-68% with minimal solve-rate impact; dynamic extension reduced costs a further 12-24% relative to fixed caps.

arXiv:2605.02273

In a descriptive observational study of 33,596 agent-authored GitHub pull requests, Duma and colleagues (2026) found that 61.4% had no recorded review.

arXiv:2510.04886

In a directional author-run evaluation, Banerjee and colleagues (2025) found that hierarchical context leveling with consensus voting outperformed all-at-once, step-by-step, and binary-search attribution.

arXiv:2601.20103

In a directional benchmark study of 517 human-verified trajectories spanning a 54-category exploit taxonomy, Deshpande and colleagues (2026) found that contrastive evaluation improved detection relative to isolated classification.

arXiv:2507.03870

In a directional black-box evaluation, Anand and colleagues (2025) used an independent planner to separate systemic agent errors from environment errors and reported detecting more total and unique errors than the evaluated prior methods across their domains.

arXiv:2602.02475

In a directional evaluation of 115 annotated failed trajectories, Barke and colleagues (2026) found that constraint-violation logs improved step localization and attribution over judging raw traces across structured application workflows, incident management, and open-ended web and file tasks.

arXiv:2403.04132

In a large human-preference evaluation study, Chiang and colleagues (2024) used Bradley-Terry aggregation with published confidence intervals, active pair sampling, and anomalous-voter screening.

arXiv:1709.09500

In a multi-dataset NLP study, Dror and colleagues (2017) demonstrated that partial-conjunction testing controls family-wise error and supports statistically valid claims about the minimum number of datasets showing an advantage.

arXiv:2502.03461

In a platinum-grading study of fifteen popular benchmarks, Vendrow and colleagues (2025) found that cleaning label errors and ambiguity exposed persistent frontier-model failures on simple tasks that the dirty sets had obscured.

arXiv:2412.15584

In a randomized experiment with 400 lay participants, Bo and colleagues (2024) reported that the disclaimer shifted both over-reliance and under-reliance in the desired direction across single-shot advice tasks involving LSAT logic and image-based estimation.

arXiv:2303.12570

In a repository-level code-completion comparison, Zhang and colleagues (2023) found that iterative retrieval and generation beat single-shot RAG and improved over in-file-only baselines by >10% on RepoEval.

arXiv:2111.11628

In a separate historical validation, Claudet and colleagues (2021) encoded a heuristic for balancing mission satisfaction in Delta-MILP and evaluated schedules on the most oversubscribed weeks of 2016 and 2018 Deep Space Network demand.

arXiv:2511.16842

In a separate study across nine benchmarks, Truong and colleagues (2025) combined item-statistic outlier detection with model-assisted triage and achieved up to 84% precision when identifying problematic questions.

arXiv:2402.06627

In a simulated deployment study, Pan and colleagues (2024) found that feedback loops drove in-context reward hacking at test time.

arXiv:2404.16966

In an empirical analysis of major benchmarks, Ailem and colleagues (2024) found non-random performance correlations across prompts; accounting for those correlations enlarged naive standard errors and changed model rankings.

arXiv:2510.01367

In an evaluation study, Wang and colleagues (2025) showed that truncated-reward AUC detected implicit reward hacking without interpreting chain-of-thought content.

arXiv:2403.10059

In code-completion experiments, Wu and colleagues (2024) found that threshold-based selective retrieval beat always-retrieving and greedy selection on RepoEval and CrossCodeEval.

arXiv:2401.12187

In controlled summarization experiments, Ramé and colleagues (2024) found that weight-averaged reward models improved reliability under distribution shift and resistance to preference noise in best-of-N selection and reinforcement learning.

arXiv:2403.07008

In GPT-4 experiments, Boyeau and colleagues (2024) obtained unbiased estimates with valid confidence intervals and effectively increased human sample size by up to 50%.

arXiv:2604.23459

In tested configurations, Hagag (2026) found up to 3.8x attack-success variance across topologies for the same task, with untrusted input propagating across agent boundaries.

arXiv:2302.12173

Indirect prompt injection (Greshake et al. 2023, arXiv:2302.12173); companion material named in the same synthesis: OWASP LLM Top 10.

arXiv:2305.10160

Jacovi and colleagues (2023) provide directional support in a policy paper arguing for publisher-side prevention through encryption, licensing, exclusion guarantees, and regenerated instances.

arXiv:2403.07974

Jain et al. (2024), arXiv:2403.07974, LiveCodeBench, ICLR 2025. [Strong evidence]

arXiv:2604.01527

Jha, Paltenghi, Maddila, Murali, Ugare, and Chandra (2026), REAP: Automatic Curation of Coding Agent Benchmarks from Interactive Production Usage, arXiv:2604.01527; the resulting benchmark is Harvest. [Directional evidence] The title and benchmark name were verified against the arXiv record on 2026-07-29; earlier…

arXiv:2602.19843

Jia, J., et al. 2026. "MAS-FIRE: Fault Injection and Reliability Evaluation for LLM-Based Multi-Agent Systems." arXiv:2602.19843. Synthetic fault injection across three architectures.

arXiv:2503.22424

Jiang and colleagues (2025) provide directional evidence from CoSIL that query-time module and function graph expansion can support issue localization without a pre-built index.

arXiv:2604.13108

Jin (2026) found directional evidence that architecture descriptors reduced navigation work, while detecting no significant comprehension difference among S-expression, JSON, YAML, and Markdown.

DOI:10.1145/3772370

Johnson, B., et al. (2026). "Facilitating Trust in AI-assisted Software Tools." ACM Transactions on Software Engineering and Methodology. DOI:10.1145/3772370. Eighteen interviews and a 368-response survey identify factors shaping trust in software tools; autonomous patch-gate transfer remains untested.

arXiv:2508.19461

Kale, N., et al. (2025). Reliable Weak-to-Strong Monitoring of LLM Agents. arXiv:2508.19461. Targeted escalation adds approximately 15% TPR at FPR=0.01. Hybrid hierarchical-sequential scaffolds let weaker models monitor stronger agents. The paper reports that scaffolding mattered more than monitor awareness; the…

arXiv:2604.23366

Kamelhar (2026), GSAR grounded consensus, arXiv:2604.23366.

arXiv:2407.01502

Kapoor, Stroebl, Siegel, Nadgir, and Narayanan (2024), AI Agents That Matter, arXiv:2407.01502, a re-evaluation study.

arXiv:2606.17182

Khan (2026) used TLA+ specifications and TLC counter-examples to exhibit all four anomaly classes and showed directionally that isolation mechanisms exclude them under deterministic-generation semantics.

arXiv:2602.09937

Kim, T., et al. 2026. "Why Do AI Agents Systematically Fail at Cloud Root Cause Analysis?" arXiv:2602.09937. OpenRCA evidence on failure persistence across capability tiers and protocol intervention.

arXiv:2503.05860

Koohestani and colleagues (2025) provide directional evidence from a review-and-tooling contribution that catalogued 204 AI4SE benchmarks with overlapping constructs.

arXiv:2505.06120

Laban, P., et al. (2025), "LLMs Get Lost In Multi-Turn Conversation," arXiv:2505.06120.

arXiv:2103.00170

Laigner, Zhou, Vaz Salles et al. (2021). Data Management in Microservices: State of the Practice, Challenges, and Research Directions. PVLDB 14(13). arXiv:2103.00170. (SLR + repo analysis + 120+ practitioner survey: hand-rolled sagas and convention-managed consistency are where reliability failures concentrate.)

arXiv:1503.07170

Lampoudi, S., Saunders, E., & Eastman, J. (2015), "An Integer Linear Programming Solution to the Telescope Network Scheduling Problem," arXiv:1503.07170. Supports validating a scheduling kernel on instances with known optima.

arXiv:2407.12220

Leech and colleagues (2024) provide a directional taxonomy of 44 questionable machine-learning research practices and examples of how individually defensible decisions could accumulate in one favorable direction.

arXiv:2411.03538

Leng, Q., et al. (2024), "Long Context RAG Performance of Large Language Models," Databricks Mosaic Research, arXiv:2411.03538.

arXiv:2502.01534

Li (2025), "Preference Leakage," arXiv:2502.01534.

arXiv:2402.07632

Li and colleagues (2024) found that overconfident AI produced misuse and unconfident AI produced disuse.

arXiv:2606.00655

Li, et al. 2026. SIMAS. arXiv:2606.00655. Audit-retained strong evidence on token cost, non-monotonic scaling, and debate versus self-correction.

arXiv:2503.04359

Li, J., et al. (2025), "LONGCODEU: Benchmarking Long-Context Language Models on Long Code Understanding," arXiv:2503.04359.

arXiv:2502.02743

Li, Y. (2025), "LLM Bandit: Cost-Efficient LLM Generation via Preference-Conditioned Dynamic Routing," arXiv:2502.02743. Single-author preprint, benchmark evidence.

arXiv:2606.26979

Lin and colleagues (2026) provide directional evidence that static-structure annotations improve run-to-run stability more than raw capability on a strong Codex baseline.

arXiv:2604.25850

Lin and colleagues (2026) report ten observability-driven harness iterations raising Terminal-Bench 2 pass@1 from 69.7% to 77.0%, with ablations locating the gains in tools, middleware, and memory rather than the system prompt; that result is an unrefereed preprint and a benchmark-harness measurement, not a live-load…

arXiv:2406.07003

Liu and colleagues (2024) compared dependence-graph retrieval with sequence-similarity RAG baselines for repository-level completion.

arXiv:2306.03091

Liu, T., et al. (2023), "RepoBench: Benchmarking Repository-Level Code Auto-Completion Systems," ICLR 2024, arXiv:2306.03091. (R/C/P decomposition localizes failure to retrieval vs completion vs pipeline stage.)

arXiv:2408.03910

Liu, X., et al. (2024), "CodexGraph: Bridging Large Language Models and Code Repositories via Code Graph Databases," ICLR 2025, arXiv:2408.03910.

arXiv:2305.01210

Liu, Xia, Wang & Zhang (2023), arXiv:2305.01210, HumanEval+ / EvalPlus, NeurIPS 2023. [Strong evidence]

arXiv:2508.13143

Lu, R., Li, Y., Huo, Y. (2025), "Exploring Autonomous Agents: A Closer Look at Why They Fail When Completing Tasks," arXiv:2508.13143. (Phase-aligned classification; ~50% completion base rate on 34 programmable tasks with off-the-shelf frameworks; not an estimate for production repositories.)

arXiv:2502.13965

Luo, et al. 2025. Autellix. arXiv:2502.13965. Directional scheduling and orchestration example.

arXiv:2509.08682

Ma, G., et al. (2025), "Automatic Failure Attribution and Critical Step Prediction Method for Multi-Agent Systems Based on Causal Inference," arXiv:2509.08682 (CDC-MAS). (36.2% step-level against under 15% for prior methods; counterfactually validated fixes worth an average 22.4% task success.)

arXiv:2406.01422

Ma, Y., et al. (2024), "Alibaba LingmaAgent: Improving Automated Issue Resolution via Comprehensive Repository Exploration," arXiv:2406.01422.

arXiv:2403.17927

MAGIS (Tao 2024), arXiv:2403.17927.

arXiv:2507.03525

Manheim and Homewood (2025) propose this distinction in a framework and maturity model that maps policy language onto technically feasible supervision mechanisms.

arXiv:2510.02557

Masters, et al. 2025. Manager Agent research challenge. arXiv:2510.02557. Directional planning and scheduling example.

arXiv:2603.25764

Mehta, A. (2026). Confident and Wrong: Silent Semantic Failures in Coding Agents. arXiv:2603.25764. Analysis of 1,750 trajectories across 50 tasks and four models; single-author, limited-sample observational finding. Supports the companion-only entry on scoring verified resolution separately from submission.

arXiv:2606.22936

Mehta’s follow-up (2026) found that its commitment signal could not separate committed-correct from committed-wrong questions.

arXiv:2605.03354

Memory Circuit Analysis (Mao et al. 2026), arXiv:2605.03354. (Stage-level diagnostic localizing a silent failure to the responsible memory operation; extraction/retention/retrieval fail silently behind fluent answers.)

arXiv:2606.01138

memorywire (Munirathinam 2026), arXiv:2606.01138, carried by the companion record on memory portability.

arXiv:2411.00640

Miller (2024). Adding Error Bars to Evals. arXiv:2411.00640 (Anthropic). The 13.2% to 7.5% minimum-detectable-effect example and the response-count lever.

arXiv:2502.02649

Mitchell and colleagues (2025) contest the development of fully autonomous agents and argue that risk grows as control is ceded.

arXiv:2401.00595

Mizrahi et al. (2024), TACL, arXiv:2401.00595. Individual templates reversed some model comparisons even where aggregate comparisons were more stable.

arXiv:2306.04930

Mozannar and colleagues (2023) retrospectively evaluated selective display using interaction data from 535 programmers using GitHub Copilot.

arXiv:2503.01935

MultiAgentBench (Zhu 2025, arXiv:2503.01935).

arXiv:2204.07210

Nadeem & Malik (2022). A Case for Microservices Orchestration Using Workflow Engines. ICSE-NIER. arXiv:2204.07210.

arXiv:1810.04815

Naghib, E., et al. (2019), "A Framework for Telescope Schedulers: With Applications to the Large Synoptic Survey Telescope," AJ 157, 151, arXiv:1810.04815. Framework and simulation evidence.

arXiv:2607.09682

Nakrani (2026) reported a validation of this construction using randomized mutation trials.

DOI:10.1109/TSE.2022.3174092

Nine methodologically material works were admitted after title-and-abstract screening, including the SEGRESS reporting guideline ([Kitchenham et al.

arXiv:2602.11988

Null or conflicting result: Gloaguen, T., Mündler, N., Müller, M., Raychev, V., Vechev, M. (2026), "Evaluating AGENTS.md: Are Repository-Level Context Files Helpful for Coding Agents?" arXiv:2602.11988.

arXiv:2607.27250

Null or conflicting result: Khatri, P. (2026), "Do Context Files Help Coding Agents? A Two-Agent Ablation Study on Real Repositories," arXiv:2607.27250. Across 288 runs, equivalence tests bounded correctness effects to no more than roughly 10 to 15 percentage points in the studied conditions.

arXiv:2208.09827

Null or conflicting result: Zhang, Soto & Markl (2022). A Survey on Transactional Stream Processing. The VLDB Journal. arXiv:2208.09827. (Carried as the negative result behind the engine choice; it is about deterministic data pipelines and says nothing about agents.)

arXiv:2604.22446

One explorer synthesis points in this direction across “From Skills to Talent” (2026), a 2-D agent design-pattern framework (2026), and Wu’s AutoGen (2023).

arXiv:2308.08155

One explorer synthesis points in this direction across “From Skills to Talent” (2026), a 2-D agent design-pattern framework (2026), and Wu’s AutoGen (2023).

arXiv:2607.08740

One position paper by Quinto and colleagues (2026) extends the model to LLM workflows through the derive and infer distinction; it establishes a proposed design, not an empirically validated recovery rate.

arXiv:2608.01507

Oskooei, A. R., et al. 2026. "Deep Agentic Search for Repository-Level Code Question Answering: An Empirical Study." arXiv:2608.01507. Strong evidence for the SWE-QA comparison and its measured handoff failures; broader topology transfer is directional.

arXiv:2410.14684

Ouyang, S., et al. (2024), "RepoGraph: Enhancing AI Software Engineering with Repository-level Code Graph," arXiv:2410.14684.

arXiv:2308.02828

Ouyang, Zhang, Harman & Wang (2023). An Empirical Study of the Non-determinism of ChatGPT in Code Generation. arXiv:2308.02828. Nominally identical requests, different programs and outcomes.

arXiv:2104.01146

Overeem and colleagues (2021) conducted a grounded-theory study involving 25 engineers and 19 production event-sourced systems.

arXiv:2605.24060

Panthi & Abdelfattah (2026), "Same Ranking, Different Winner," arXiv:2605.24060. The 115-case stratified validation protocol, agreement measurements, overlap adjudication, and scaled contested-case evaluation.

arXiv:2203.00013

Parazin, B., et al. (2022), "Foraging with MUSHROOMS: A Mixed-integer Linear Programming Scheduler for Multimessenger Target of Opportunity Searches with the Zwicky Transient Facility," ApJ 935, 87, arXiv:2203.00013.

arXiv:2304.01315

Patterson and colleagues (2023) provide directional methodological evidence, supported by demonstrations in reinforcement-learning research, for a pilot-then-precommit-then-confirm discipline.

arXiv:2605.03409

Perera (2026) and Chang (2025) provide directional support for compensation-oriented recovery without supplying a result that establishes its effectiveness.

arXiv:2503.11951

Perera (2026) and Chang (2025) provide directional support for compensation-oriented recovery without supplying a result that establishes its effectiveness.

arXiv:2308.11696

Perlitz and colleagues (2023) introduced DIoR to quantify the decision-flip probability associated with reductions.

arXiv:2211.03622

Perry, Srivastava, Kumar, Boneh (2022/2023), "Do Users Write More Insecure Code with AI Assistants?", ACM CCS 2023, arXiv:2211.03622.

arXiv:2602.01146

PersistBench from Pulipaka (2026) supports only the need for a forgetting lifecycle; it is a memory-safety benchmark rather than a study of consolidation schedules.

arXiv:2506.17001

PersonalAI KG comparison (Menschikov), arXiv:2506.17001, with a contested practitioner thread named in the same synthesis.

arXiv:2402.14992

Polo and colleagues (2024) found that 100 IRT-curated items reconstructed full MMLU scores within ~2 points at ~1% of the cost.

arXiv:2512.10218

Prathifkumar, Saji Mathews & Nagappan (2025), arXiv:2512.10218, Waterloo. [Directional evidence]

arXiv:2605.08112

Product context and coding-agent decision compliance (Dillon 2026), arXiv:2605.08112, carried by the companion record on the tribal-knowledge substrate. Its compliance figure is not used in the prose.

arXiv:2507.19942

Prometheus (Pan, H., et al. 2025), arXiv:2507.19942, carried by the companion record on persisting explored context. No figure quoted here.

arXiv:2312.06893

Psarakis et al. (2023). Styx: Transactional Stateful Functions on Streaming Dataflows. SIGMOD line. arXiv:2312.06893. (Execution caching keyed by invocation identity gives exactly-once composition across call graphs.)

arXiv:2406.07155

Qian, et al. 2024. MacNet. arXiv:2406.07155. Directional evidence on network scaling.

DOI:10.1145/3607179

Rahman, M. M., et al. (2023), "A Systematic Review of Automated Query Reformulations in Source Code Search," ACM Transactions on Software Engineering and Methodology, DOI:10.1145/3607179. The review supports treating query formation as a distinct retrieval stage, not the chapter's fusion policy.

arXiv:2505.07897

Rando, S., et al. (2025), "LongCodeBench: Evaluating Coding LLMs at 1M Context Windows," arXiv:2505.07897.

arXiv:2409.20489

Reid and colleagues (2024) provide directional evidence from a budget-constrained contextual-bandit formulation, theoretical analysis, and evaluations on real-world datasets.

arXiv:1803.09578

Reimers & Gurevych (2018). Why Comparing Single Performance Scores Does Not Allow to Draw Conclusions About Machine Learning Approaches. arXiv:1803.09578. The 26% result.

arXiv:2411.00998

Rosbach, E., Ganz, J., Ammeling, J., Riener, A., Aubreville, M. (2024). Automation Bias in AI-Assisted Medical Decision-Making under Time Pressure in Computational Pathology. arXiv:2411.00998. This is the basis for the time-pressure paragraph. The setting is computational pathology, not software review.

arXiv:2605.15132

Rose, Evan, et al. 2026. APWA: A Distributed Architecture for Parallelizable Agentic Workflows. arXiv:2605.15132. Directional orchestration example.

arXiv:2401.03729

Salinas and Morstatter (2024), arXiv:2401.03729. Trivial prompt edits changed more than 10 percent of predictions on some tested tasks.

arXiv:2208.09727

Sandoval and colleagues (2022/2023) conducted a controlled N=58 study on a low-level C linked-list task.

arXiv:2208.06213

Sarkar, A., et al. (2022). What is it like to program with artificial intelligence? PPIG 2022. arXiv:2208.06213. This is the basis for the companion hypothesis that verification is the dominant cost. The magnitudes are not quantified.

arXiv:2410.18124

Saxena and colleagues (2024) extend that direction by treating availability as the objective, retaining at least two snapshots, and accounting for detection latency.

arXiv:2310.11324

Sclar et al. (2023), FormatSpread, arXiv:2310.11324. Meaning-preserving prompt-format changes produced a median 7.5-point accuracy spread across the tested tasks, with larger task-level spreads.

arXiv:2605.03117

Seddik and colleagues (2026) provide strong evidence from controlled ablations of ARISE on SWE-bench Lite.

arXiv:2604.05481

Sepidband, M., Viet Pham, H., Hemmati, H. (2026), "On the Role of Fault Localization Context for LLM-Based Program Repair," arXiv:2604.05481.

arXiv:2604.08206

Shang, Wenlong. 2026. "Theater of Mind" for LLMs: A Cognitive Architecture Based on Global Workspace Theory. arXiv:2604.08206. Directional blackboard and global-workspace design; single-author architecture proposal, not a controlled measurement.

arXiv:2605.10913

Shepherd runtime substrate (Yu et al. 2026, arXiv:2605.10913); companion material named in the same synthesis without a paper identifier: OpenTelemetry GenAI conventions (CNCF 2025).

arXiv:2502.17560

Singer and colleagues (2025) later report a shared multi-mission toolkit.

arXiv:2605.00827

Singh Parmar (2026) reports one production Kubernetes synchronization case containing 67 steps.

arXiv:2406.12624

Singh Thakur, Choudhary, Ramayapally, Vaidyanathan & Hupkes (2024), "Judging the Judges," arXiv:2406.12624. Chance-corrected alignment metrics, systematic leniency, and position effects.

arXiv:2209.13085

Skalse, Howe, Krasheninnikov & Krueger (2022). Defining and Characterizing Reward Hacking. NeurIPS 2022. arXiv:2209.13085. Chapter 6, layer-signals-beyond-single-proxy.

arXiv:2605.24117

SkillEvolBench (Lei et al. 2026, arXiv:2605.24117), through the agentic-memory source synthesis. The underlying study measures no-skill and raw-trajectory controls in its setting; coverage matching, one-factor sweeps, and the writer information-flow constraint are transfers within the broader protocol.

arXiv:2502.03261

Somerstep, S., et al. (2025), "CARROT: A Cost Aware Rate Optimal Router," arXiv:2502.03261. Static model pool assumed.

arXiv:2404.04059

Sterz, S., et al. (2024). On the Quest for Effectiveness in Human Oversight: Interdisciplinary Perspectives. ACM FAccT 2024. arXiv:2404.04059. Supports four conditions for effective oversight persons; gates failing any condition are compliance theater. The framework is motivated by EU AI Act Article 14, not…

arXiv:2411.17501

Stroebl and colleagues (2024) showed that an imperfect verifier creates an accuracy ceiling that additional resampling cannot break.

arXiv:2607.22368

Strong evidence for audited protocol defects and paired score inflation: Shao, J., Chen, H., Zhang, W., Pan, M., and Luo, B. (2026), "Do Agent Benchmarks Measure Capability? Protocol Validity in the Age of Agentic AI," arXiv:2607.22368. The reported rates apply to the audited protocols, not all agent benchmarks.

arXiv:2607.28587

Strong evidence for benchmark-specific PR-issue misalignment and detector accuracy: Wang, M., Xu, J., and He, P. (2026), "PAIChecker: Uncovering and Checking PR-Issue Misalignment in SWE-Bench-Like Benchmarks," arXiv:2607.28587.

arXiv:2607.25152

Strong evidence for externally grounded gating in the measured testbed: Park, H., and Choi, B. (2026), "When Do Agent Loops Mistake Stagnation for Progress?" arXiv:2607.25152. The 54-cycle result does not estimate a general agent failure rate.

arXiv:2608.04804

Strong evidence for one benchmark-bound scout-and-fixer configuration and its no-router ablation: Bhola, I., Krishnan, A., and NS, M. (2026), "Scrouting: Cost-Aware Routing of Coding Agents by Scouting the Repository First," arXiv:2608.04804. The handoff, rather than the router, carried the measured result.

arXiv:2608.00101

Strong evidence for production workload characterization, directional for capacity-policy transfer: Liu, B., et al. (2026), "Agentic Coding in the Wild: Characterizing GitHub Copilot Traces at Production Scale," arXiv:2608.00101.

arXiv:2607.24882

Strong evidence for the benchmark measurements and controlled seed pilot: Qin, B., and Xie, Y. (2026), "Agent Retrieval Bench: Evaluating Repository Context Retrieval for Coding Agents," arXiv:2607.24882. The benchmark supports stage-level evaluation rather than a universal retrieval-family ranking.

arXiv:1608.07617

Strong evidence for the cheap-baseline comparison only: SWAY, Chen, J., et al. (2016), "Sampling as a Baseline Optimizer for Search-Based Software Engineering," arXiv:1608.07617. The study supports requiring a candidate optimizer to beat a cheap baseline; fixed-arrival replay is a transfer beyond its experiment.

arXiv:2605.12978

Strong evidence for the degradation mechanism: "Useful Memories Become Faulty When Continuously Updated by LLMs" (Zhang 2026), arXiv:2605.12978. The study measures degradation under repeated LLM memory updates; it does not compare immutable-source and rebuildable-distillate architectures.

arXiv:2510.00615

Strong evidence for the measured failure-driven compression comparison: Kang, M., et al. (2025), "ACON: Optimizing Context Compression for Long-horizon LLM Agents," arXiv:2510.00615 (Microsoft). The study tests failure-guided compression on app, office, and question-answering benchmarks; transfer to coding agents…

arXiv:2607.22520

Strong evidence for the narrower transition analysis: Tank, D., and Nama, B. (2026), "The Regression Tax: Decomposing Why Skills Help and Hurt LLM Agents," arXiv:2607.22520. Nearly 6,000 runs across two office-automation benchmarks and three model-harness stacks; transfer to coding-agent skill libraries is directional.

arXiv:1909.09436

Strong evidence for the vocabulary-gap claim: CodeSearchNet (Husain 2019), arXiv:1909.09436. The study establishes the mismatch between natural-language queries and code vocabulary. It does not test the chapter's rank-fusion protocol; Yang et al. supply the direct comparison of combined lexical and semantic retrieval.

arXiv:2607.11046

Strong evidence from file-level localization experiments by Caumartin and colleagues (2026) found that role-aware summaries outperformed file-path representations by up to 40% Hit@5 while using a representation footprint 10.4-20.9x smaller than raw source.

arXiv:2605.08717

Strong evidence from Zhao and colleagues (2026) measured the gap across 257 cases: top-1 diagnosis accuracy was 65.37%, while recovery was 21.79%.

arXiv:2607.27294

Strong evidence within the tested benchmark and configurations: Zhou, J., et al. (2026), "AgentS4D: Benchmarking Runtime Risks across the Execution Lifecycle of LLM-Based Workspace Agents," arXiv:2607.27294. Across 6,560 runs, 66.22 percent were both unsafe under a prespecified signal and complete; the result is not…

arXiv:2503.11926

Strong evidence: Baker, B., et al. (2025). Monitoring Reasoning Models for Misbehavior and the Risks of Promoting Obfuscation. OpenAI. arXiv:2503.11926.

arXiv:2210.10760

Strong evidence: Gao, Schulman & Hilton (2022). Scaling Laws for Reward Model Overoptimization. ICML 2023. arXiv:2210.10760.

DOI:10.1145/3656341

Sun, W., et al. (2024), "A Survey of Source Code Search: A 3-Dimensional Perspective," ACM Transactions on Software Engineering and Methodology, DOI:10.1145/3656341. The survey separates query, code, and matching components; transfer to repository agents remains directional.

arXiv:2310.06770

SWE-bench (arXiv:2310.06770), from Jimenez et al. 2023. No figure carried.

arXiv:2501.00539

Szeider (2024) offers a more recent prototype in which a language model edits declared constraint models while deterministic solvers consume them, although its authors characterize the experiments as non-rigorous benchmarks.

arXiv:2605.29442

Tang et al., "How Coding Agents Fail Their Users: A Large-Scale Analysis of Developer-Agent Misalignment in 20,574 Real-World Sessions", arXiv:2605.29442, 2026.

arXiv:2405.16081

Tang, N., Chen, M., Ning, Z., Bansal, A., Huang, Y., McMillan, C., Li, T. J.-J. (2024). A Study on Developer Behaviors for Validating and Repairing LLM-Generated Code Using Eye Tracking and IDE Actions. arXiv:2405.16081. Supports improved repair performance and greater verification effort with provenance disclosure;…

arXiv:2508.02611

Tawosi and colleagues (2025) report directional evidence that summary-first reasoning can reduce repository context while retaining useful file and function localization.

arXiv:2408.05861

Temporal KG memory (Kim et al.), arXiv:2408.05861, carried by the companion record on modeling time explicitly. Supports the two-time-axes aside only.

arXiv:2506.20430

The evidence is one directional explorer synthesis spanning the long-horizon engineering system described by Chen (2026), DeepRare from Zhao and colleagues (2026), and MemReader from Kang (2026).

arXiv:2604.07877

The evidence is one directional explorer synthesis spanning the long-horizon engineering system described by Chen (2026), DeepRare from Zhao and colleagues (2026), and MemReader from Kang (2026).

DOI:10.1109/TSE.2022.3165938

The lane also follows the more restrictive point made by Kitchenham and colleagues (2022): a mutable social-media post is not treated as a primary study merely because it is informative.

arXiv:2605.17480

The tested multi-agent arrangements were more vulnerable in most configurations, and the Capability Paradox described by Liu (2026) directionally indicates that stronger worker models can make weaponized instructions more effective through persuasive linguistic certainty.

DOI:10.1016/j.infsof.2018.09.006

This practitioner lane makes the review multivocal in the software-engineering sense described by Garousi, Felderer, and Mäntylä (2019): it combines scholarly and grey literature because operational mechanisms and incidents are often documented outside venues.

arXiv:2512.20660

Thompson (2025) reports directional results across 13 models of 1.3B-15B parameters and three diagnostic probes, including up to 66-percentage-point reliability gains at 1.2-2.1x cost.

arXiv:2509.23537

Tian, et al. 2025. "Beyond the Strongest LLM." arXiv:2509.23537. Directional evidence on multi-agent teams.

arXiv:2606.04056

Token Budgets (Khan 2026, arXiv:2606.04056). Together, the four synthesis items support only the direction of the checkpoint-placement claim. None is strong.

arXiv:1907.06250

Trofimov, Kuralenok, Marshalkin & Novikov (2019). Delivery, consistency, and determinism: rethinking guarantees in distributed stream processing. arXiv:1907.06250.

DOI:10.1109/TSE.2023.3348172

Tufano, M., et al. (2024). "Code Review Automation: Strengths and Weaknesses of the State of the Art." IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering. DOI:10.1109/TSE.2023.3348172. Manual analysis of 2,291 predictions exposes capability boundaries and dataset defects; it does not evaluate this chapter's interface design.

arXiv:2212.06823

Vasconcelos, H., Jörke, M., Grunde-McLaughlin, M., Gerstenberg, T., Bernstein, M., Krishna, R. (2022/2023). Explanations Can Reduce Overreliance on AI Systems During Decision-Making. PACM HCI 7(CSCW1). arXiv:2212.06823. Five experiments treat overreliance as a cost-benefit choice and find greater engagement when…

arXiv:2603.09619

Vishnyakova, O. (2026), arXiv:2603.09619. (Names the five context-quality criteria; position paper.)

arXiv:2404.06203

Vogel et al. (2024), "A Comprehensive Benchmarking Analysis of Fault Recovery in Stream Processing Frameworks," arXiv:2404.06203 (JSS line).

arXiv:2604.07667

Wang (2026), "Conformal Social Choice," arXiv:2604.07667.

arXiv:2605.02431

Wei’s ARIADNE work (2026) presents a blackboard-driven search with active writes and a deadlock-breaking diversity check.

arXiv:2605.14478

Weng, H., et al. (2026), "When Retrieval Hurts Code Completion: A Diagnostic Study of Stale Repository Context," arXiv:2605.14478.

arXiv:2407.01489

Xia, C. S., et al. (2024), "Agentless: Demystifying LLM-based Software Engineering Agents," arXiv:2407.01489.

arXiv:2408.01703

Xie, L., Zheng, C., Xia, H., Qu, H., Zhu-Tian, C. (2024). WaitGPT: Monitoring and Steering Conversational LLM Agent in Data Analysis with On-the-Fly Code Visualization. UIST 2024. arXiv:2408.01703. This prototype-scale single item is the basis for the live-state proposal and the thinnest support in the chapter.…

arXiv:2405.15793

Yang and colleagues (2024) also found that adding iterative search could perform worse than providing no search interface, showing how undirected exploration can consume budget without improving resolution.

arXiv:2503.21710

Yang, B., et al. (2025), "Enhancing Repository-Level Software Repair via Repository-Aware Knowledge Graphs" (KGCompass), arXiv:2503.21710. (The 69.7 percent multi-hop figure is carried from v1; later versions report different headline values, so the inline link pins v1.)

arXiv:2605.23929

Yang, Ya-Ting and Zhu (2026) directionally motivate allocating more budget to slowly saturating sequential stages, but their result is theory plus numerical illustration and assumes independent failures.

arXiv:2507.18515

Yang, Z., et al. (2025), "A Deep Dive into Retrieval-Augmented Generation for Code Completion: Experience on WeChat," arXiv:2507.18515 (industrial study).

arXiv:1909.13694

Ye, Martinez & Monperrus (2019), arXiv:1909.13694. [Strong evidence]

arXiv:2502.00350

Yu and colleagues (2025) provide directional evidence from OrcaLoca on SWE-bench Lite.

arXiv:2603.00520

Yu, B. et al. (2026), arXiv:2603.00520, SWE-ABS. [Strong evidence]

arXiv:2503.07675

Yu, Junwei, Yepeng Ding, and Hiroyuki Sato. 2025. DynTaskMAS. arXiv:2503.07675. Directional parallel-versus-serial result on a seven-agent travel-planning workload; no controlled dynamic-versus-fixed comparison.

arXiv:2506.09289

Yu, S. et al. (2025), arXiv:2506.09289, UTBoost. [Strong evidence]

arXiv:2001.02114

Zhang and colleagues (2020) found in controlled experiments that confidence displays changed reliance in the expected direction, while joint accuracy improved only when people contributed complementary knowledge.

arXiv:2405.00332

Zhang, H. et al. (2024), GSM1k, arXiv:2405.00332, Scale AI. [Strong evidence]

arXiv:2505.23419

Zhang, L. et al. (2025), SWE-bench Goes Live!, arXiv:2505.23419, Microsoft Research. [Directional evidence]

arXiv:2505.00212

Zhang, S., et al. (2025), "Which Agent Causes Task Failures and When? On Automated Failure Attribution of LLM Multi-Agent Systems," ICML 2025, arXiv:2505.00212. (Who&When: expert-annotated failure logs from 127 multi-agent systems; 53.5% agent-level and 14.2% step-level for the best automated method; some methods…

arXiv:2506.15655

Zhang, Y., et al. (2025), "cAST: Enhancing Code Retrieval-Augmented Generation with Structural Chunking via Abstract Syntax Tree," arXiv:2506.15655.

arXiv:2607.09510

Zhao and colleagues (2026) give recovery behavior in coding-agent trajectories an empirical anatomy across 1,794 annotated complete runs, but the work is an unrefereed preprint and an observation, not a controlled test of a recovery mechanism.

arXiv:2605.26178

Zhao, et al. 2026. ATOM. arXiv:2605.26178. Audit-retained strong evidence on difficulty-conditioned topology across six short-form benchmarks.

arXiv:2306.05685

Zheng et al. (2023), "Judging LLM-as-a-Judge with MT-Bench and Chatbot Arena," arXiv:2306.05685. Judge position, verbosity, and self-preference bias; inter-rater agreement against human labels.

arXiv:2507.02825

Zhu and colleagues (2025) provide directional evidence through an Agentic Benchmark Checklist synthesized from surveyed failures.

arXiv:2509.25370

Zhu and colleagues (2025) reported that AgentDebug’s root-cause isolation and targeted feedback outperformed retry-from-scratch baselines on trajectories from ALFWorld, GAIA, and WebShop.

arXiv:2406.12045

τ-bench (Yao, Shinn, Razavi & Narasimhan 2024, arXiv:2406.12045). Introduces and measures \(\mathrm{pass}^{k}\) on interactive, multi-turn tool-use tasks with executable oracles. Using a team's own tasks and replaying the set per release are transfers beyond the measured findings.

web.archive.org

"AI agent wiped Railway DB in 9 seconds. How do you separate destructive from legit curl calls in prod?", /u/UpstairsSafe2922, r/devops, 2026-05-12. Archived snapshot.

web.archive.org

"What actually broke when we put AI agents into real production workflows", /u/saurabhjain1592, r/LLMDevs, 2026-01-08. Archived snapshot.

devops.com

"When Should a DevOps Agent Act Without Human Approval?", Bala Priya C, DevOps.com, 2026-05-11, article. Supports action-type autonomy promotion at roughly 95% unmodified approval, permanent approval floors for irreversible or high-blast-radius actions, and decision-ready gates with timeout plans. The protocol comes…

tech.instacart.com

(2026) report a database-backed durable queue with per-pass session snapshots handling approximately 25,000 diagnostic passes per month at 99.9 percent success, including takeover by another worker during a pass.

martinfowler.com

A directional practitioner account from Böckeler (2026) supports incremental rule growth and selective loading.

turingpost.com

A practitioner account by Addy Osmani and Shubham Saboo (2026) similarly points toward checkpointing long agent batches after a cost-calibrated group of work units.

addyo.substack.com

Addy Osmani (2026). "Long-running Agents", Elevate newsletter, 2026-04-30. (Plan file, progress notes, append-only event log outside the context make an agent recoverable and enable full context resets rebuilt from a handoff file.)

dl.acm.org

Alvaro, Rosen, and Hellerstein (2015) reason backward from a correct outcome to the faults that could break it, replacing random fault schedules with outcome-directed placement.

aws.amazon.com

AWS practitioner guidance (Builders’ Library) corroborates that retries against external APIs are safe only when the API is idempotent or the caller can establish what happened.

aws.amazon.com

AWS practitioner guidance (Builders’ Library) describes backoff with jitter desynchronizing retries so a correlated failure does not produce a synchronized retry wave, and the same reasoning applies to recovery redelivery after an orchestrator restart.

martinfowler.com

Böckeler (2026) analyzes vendor-reported practice from the OpenAI Codex team.

usenix.org

Burrows (2006), Chubby, OSDI. The lock-generation sequencer behind fencing (I2); a coordination-service mechanism, not agent evidence, developed in Chapter 18.

netflixtechblog.com

Corroborating evidence for the reported service-local before-and-after measurement: Jacob Meyers and Rob Zienert (2025). "How Temporal Powers Reliable Cloud Operations at Netflix", Netflix TechBlog, 2025-12-15. The vendor-adjacent account comes from the adopting team, was not independently audited, and does not…

cursor.com

Cursor’s engineering blog (2026) reports writing long tool output to files that the agent can read back, reducing forced summaries near the context limit.

engineering.atspotify.com

Directional practitioner evidence from Spotify Engineering (2026) describes evaluations as a verification funnel before experiments and reports production rollbacks caused by secondary-metric regressions that offline evaluation had missed.

vercel.com

Grammel and Dodds (2026), the AI SDK software factory, Vercel Blog. The same decomposition, plus a four-valued run outcome (success, flawed, blocked, manual) that separates attempt result from work state, and a human approval gate on every merge. The post reports authoring 25 to 35 percent of merged pull requests,…

usenix.org

Gunawi and colleagues (2011) inject failures systematically at I/O points while expressing the expected recovery declaratively, so the claim is specified before the kill.

morling.dev

Gunnar Morling (2025). "Building a Durable Execution Engine with SQLite", morling.dev, 2025-11-20. (Idempotency keys at side-effect boundaries make the execute-then-log crash window safe on replay.)

usenix.org

Hindman and colleagues (2011) offer resources from a global allocator to framework-local schedulers in Mesos’s two-level design.

usenix.org

Huang and colleagues (2026) classify shell-script work into recomputable work, reconstructable state, and side-effectful regions and handle each differently under failure, a mapping that carries from grep and compile to git push, PR creation, and deploy; transfer the classification, not the performance results.

usenix.org

Hunt and colleagues (2010) show coordination state kept in a replicated service surviving individual process failure, so claim and generation records outlive worker crashes; the transfer is state that outlives its writers, not a requirement that a coding-agent factory run a consensus protocol.

infoq.com

InfoQ, "Stripe Engineers Deploy Minions, Autonomous Agents Producing Thousands of Pull Requests Weekly," 2026-03-20, https://www.infoq.com/news/2026/03/stripe-autonomous-coding-agents/. Reports over 1,300 production pull requests per week with human review retained. Carried as scale context; it reports no measure of…

usenix.org

Li, Cai, and Lou (2026) show that recovery actions cause severe production failures and simulate a recovery action in situ to preview its effects before granting it authority; production distributed-systems evidence that transfers directionally, so a worker restart alone does not demonstrate that recovery worked.

usenix.org

Mace and colleagues (2015) show with Retro’s per-tenant resource management that maintenance and recovery work is itself a tenant that can overload a system and that targeted throttling needs workload attribution; multi-tenant storage-system evidence whose transfer is the attribution-and-throttling mechanism, not…

microsoft.com

Mokhov, Mitchell, and Peyton Jones (2018) show that the dependency graph is not the whole execution semantics: scheduling, rebuild policy, and trace validity are separate design choices, and a cached result is valid only for the inputs its trace recorded; transfer that separation, not any specific build tool’s policy.

openai.com

OpenAI (2026), Symphony orchestration, and Cloudflare (2026), Astro issue-triage factory. Corroborating convergence on the ledger-scheduler-worker-gate decomposition from the operating teams; not controlled evidence that the decomposition improves any measured outcome.

blog.cloudflare.com

OpenAI (2026), Symphony orchestration, and Cloudflare (2026), Astro issue-triage factory. Corroborating convergence on the ledger-scheduler-worker-gate decomposition from the operating teams; not controlled evidence that the decomposition improves any measured outcome.

openai.com

OpenAI, "Separating signal from noise in coding evaluations," 2026-07-08, https://openai.com/index/separating-signal-from-noise-coding-evaluations/. [Corroborating evidence]

openai.com

OpenAI, "Why SWE-bench Verified no longer measures frontier coding capabilities," 2026-02-23, https://openai.com/index/why-we-no-longer-evaluate-swe-bench-verified. [Corroborating evidence]

newsletter.pragmaticengineer.com

Orosz with Husain (2025), "A pragmatic guide to LLM evals for devs," Pragmatic Engineer newsletter, 2025-12-02, https://newsletter.pragmaticengineer.com/p/evals. Binary PASS/FAIL, deterministic evaluation where possible, and judge validation against held-out human labels with TPR/TNR.

dl.acm.org

Osterweil (1987, 1997) argued that software processes are software too, and Choi and Scacchi (1991) described the software factory itself as distributed infrastructure, with the coordination substrate treated as a first-class engineering object; the CNCF's Secure Software Factory reference architecture (CNCF TAG…

dl.acm.org

Osterweil (1987, 1997) argued that software processes are software too, and Choi and Scacchi (1991) described the software factory itself as distributed infrastructure, with the coordination substrate treated as a first-class engineering object; the CNCF's Secure Software Factory reference architecture (CNCF TAG…

ics.uci.edu

Osterweil (1987, 1997) argued that software processes are software too, and Choi and Scacchi (1991) described the software factory itself as distributed infrastructure, with the coordination substrate treated as a first-class engineering object; the CNCF's Secure Software Factory reference architecture (CNCF TAG…

tag-security.cncf.io

Osterweil (1987, 1997) argued that software processes are software too, and Choi and Scacchi (1991) described the software factory itself as distributed infrastructure, with the coordination substrate treated as a first-class engineering object; the CNCF's Secure Software Factory reference architecture (CNCF TAG…

sjarmak.ai

Practitioner retrieval used the Code Intelligence Digest, an author-operated corpus that ingests research feeds, engineering publications, newsletters, podcasts, community discussions, and product or operations accounts.

scixplorer.org

Scholarly retrieval used SciX, the NASA-supported literature discovery service operated by the Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory, and a local retrieval layer referred to here as SciX Agent.

research.google

Schwarzkopf et al. (2013), Omega, and Verma et al. (2015), Borg. Shared-state scheduling and admission-control mechanisms behind I1 and I9; their measured parameters do not transfer.

research.google

Schwarzkopf et al. (2013), Omega, and Verma et al. (2015), Borg. Shared-state scheduling and admission-control mechanisms behind I1 and I9; their measured parameters do not transfer.

usenix.org

Sun and colleagues (2022) built Sieve, which perturbs a cluster controller’s view of state and checks convergence with differential oracles, finding real bugs in reconciliation controllers without touching their code; transfer the perturbed-view testing principle and the oracles, not the tooling or bug counts.

sre.google

The Google SRE Book (Addressing Cascading Failures) describes cascading failures sustained by retry amplification and synchronized recovery demand, with deliberate load shedding or deferral as the documented way out.

sre.google

The Google SRE Book (Handling Overload) corroborates criticality-aware admission that protects essential traffic when capacity is short, as practitioner guidance rather than controlled evidence.

amplifypartners.com

The Hightouch team, in an interview published by Amplify Partners (2026), describes buffering large tool results similarly and reports that the design kept the active window focused on reasoning rather than raw output.

scixplorer.org

The official SciX API supplied bibliographic identities and metadata.

blog.cloudflare.com

Trautmann & Sutter (2026), "Agents that remember: introducing Agent Memory", Cloudflare. Production account carrying the shipped default of parallel channels fused with reciprocal-rank fusion.

usenix.org

Wu, Pan, and Huang (2024) place partial-failure injections at inferred state boundaries, exposing 20 previously unknown bugs across six mature distributed systems.

usenix.org

Zhang and colleagues (2020) give each logical operation in stateful serverless workflows a durable identity that retries reuse, and Zhuang and colleagues (2023) treat exactly-once as a layer over annotated tasks with recovery aware of which attempts may be replayed; neither evaluates agent runtimes, and exactly-once…

usenix.org

Zhang and colleagues (2020) give each logical operation in stateful serverless workflows a durable identity that retries reuse, and Zhuang and colleagues (2023) treat exactly-once as a layer over annotated tasks with recovery aware of which attempts may be replayed; neither evaluates agent runtimes, and exactly-once…

reddit.com

"AI agent wiped Railway DB in 9 seconds. How do you separate destructive from legit curl calls in prod?", /u/UpstairsSafe2922, r/devops, 2026-05-12. Archived snapshot.

reddit.com

"What actually broke when we put AI agents into real production workflows", /u/saurabhjain1592, r/LLMDevs, 2026-01-08.

x.com

A reported vendor practice from Cursor (2026) establishes that one provider paired offline benchmarks with online evaluation as public suites saturated, but supplies no methodology.

rss.xcancel.com

An anecdotal account from Dex Horthy, summarized by Gergely Orosz (2026), describes intentional compaction to stay below a model’s “dumb zone,” but does not measure where that region begins.

reddit.com

Bytesfortruth (2026), a lending-domain practitioner, reported that a model near the 90th percentile on a general-reasoning measure failed basic mortgage-underwriting tasks, and that rankings changed considerably on a domain-lifecycle evaluation.

reddit.com

Jain (2026) writes from practitioner experience rather than a controlled evaluation.

reddit.com

One reported production case from Henry Vu (2026) found a key-value cache violation during an assembled-window audit that was costing 10x on inference.

reddit.com

One vendor-adjacent case, described in a practitioner account on r/programming, reported a runaway ReAct loop consuming 10x tokens and attributed control to iteration limits, explicit exits, and recovery handling.

github.com/sjarmak/engineering-reliable-coding-agents/blob/main/protocols/factory-contracts.yaml

Later chapters cite them by identifier (I1 through I11), so the identifiers are stated here; the full normative statements, in machine-testable form, live in the repository artifact protocols/factory-contracts.yaml.

github.com/sjarmak/codeprobe

Not an evidence item: CodeProbe, the author's task-mining evaluation tool, public repository. Named inline for the end-to-end run and the score-per-dollar reporting described above, both of which are narrative illustration.

github.com/sjarmak/engineering-reliable-coding-agents

The project repository contains the versioned manuscript, evidence ledger, benchmark catalog, schemas, provenance data, and release checksums.

github.com/sjarmak/engineering-reliable-coding-agents/blob/main/protocols/allocation-policy-replay.md

The repository artifact protocols/allocation-policy-replay.md defines the replay comparison, promotion rule, and retained decision record.

github.com/sjarmak/engineering-reliable-coding-agents/blob/main/protocols/authority-boundary-test.md

The repository artifact protocols/authority-boundary-test.md makes the boundary test, pass condition, and retained evidence explicit.

github.com/sjarmak/engineering-reliable-coding-agents/blob/main/protocols/evaluation-comparison.md

The repository artifact protocols/evaluation-comparison.md packages this sequence, pass condition, and retained files.

github.com/sjarmak/engineering-reliable-coding-agents/blob/main/protocols/failure-trace-review.md

The repository artifact protocols/failure-trace-review.md provides the blinded review sequence, pass condition, and adjudication record.

github.com/sjarmak/engineering-reliable-coding-agents/blob/main/protocols/minimum-reliability-pass.md

The repository artifact protocols/minimum-reliability-pass.md supplies the runnable checklist and retained-artifact layout; the chapters develop each step.

github.com/sjarmak/engineering-reliable-coding-agents/blob/main/protocols/recovery-fault-injection.md

The repository artifact protocols/recovery-fault-injection.md supplies the bounded run sequence, pass condition, and output manifest.