cs.SE · 2026-10-01 · No. 130

Software Engineering, 2026-10-01.

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01 — The papers

2 entries
  1. 01

    Learning When and How to Intervene: A Hindsight-Distilled Sentinel for Coding Agents

    Jiangrui Zhao, Chenglong Li, Meng Zhang, Xiaoting Du

    cs.SE · cs.AI · cs.LG

    Coding agents solve repository-level tasks through sequences of actions, where a single erroneous action can misdirect subsequent decisions and increase recovery costs. Existing approaches use execution feedback for recovery or specialized checks to block errors, but deciding before execution whether intervention will benefit eventual task completion remains challenging. To address this challenge, we propose HiSentinel, a...

    arxiv.org/abs/2609.39957 · PDF

  2. 02

    DoGBench: Can Agents Meet Expert Standards for User-Facing Documentation?

    Frances Liu, Manny Silva, Paige Calvert, Ayu Adiati, Sarah Sanders

    cs.SE · cs.AI

    We introduce DoGBENCH (Documentation Generation Benchmark), to our knowledge, the first benchmark for generating and maintaining real user-facing software documentation. It asks whether an agent can produce documentation that experienced technical writers would accept in review. The benchmark contains 292 items from open source projects, including Helm, PostHog, and Mautic. Each item gives the agent a pre-change repository and a trigger, such...

    arxiv.org/abs/2609.39909 · PDF

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