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DCAS: Decoupling CLI Agent Scaffolding to Internalize Planning across Scaffolds
Kishanthan Thangarajah, Boyuan Chen, Ahmed E. Hassan
CLI-based software-engineering agents have matured rapidly, yet the open ecosystem has converged on a single training environment: trajectory datasets used to fine-tune open models…
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SpecFirst: Behavioral Specification Elicitation as a First-Class Step in Agent-Based Program Synthesis from Scratch
Yihao Chen, Shi Chang, Feng Lin +4
LLM-based agents excel at software engineering tasks where an existing codebase provides context, but constructing a program from scratch remains fundamentally harder. Recent bench…