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most citedAutomating Dependency Updates in Practice: An Exploratory Study on GitHub Dependabot

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Update from Hell: Can Coding Agents Survive Hidden Breakage in Dependency Upgrades?

Zijian Luo, Runzhi He, Pengfei Gao +6

Modern software systems rely heavily on third-party dependencies, but upgrading those dependencies remains a costly maintenance activity. Dependency upgrades do not always preserve…

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A First Look at Coding Agents' Compliance with AI Contribution Rules in Open-Source Communities

Wenhao Yang, Runzhi He, Minghui Zhou

Open source communities have been flooded with AI-generated contributions. In defense, they have written contribution rules to regulate coding agents' behavior, spanning from a tot…

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File-Level Copying Is an Implicit Dependency in Open Source

Runzhi He, Audris Mockus, Wenhao Yang +1

File-level copying is a widespread but ungoverned form of software reuse. Copying files across repositories reduces supply-chain visibility: it removes the four observable signals…

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Skills Are Not Islands: Measuring Dependency and Risk in Agent Skill Supply Chains

Changguo Jia, Tianqi Zhao, Runzhi He +1

Agent skills package reusable operational knowledge for Large Language Model (LLM) agents, yet as they grow in scope, they become dependency-bearing artifacts whose identities, ver…

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To Ban or not to Ban? How Open Source Projects Govern GenAI Contributions

Wenhao Yang, Runzhi He, Minghui Zhou

Generative AI (GenAI) is playing an increasingly important role in open source software (OSS). Beyond completing code and documentation, GenAI is increasingly involved in issues, p…