7 papers
Loop Engineering: Building Blocks, Adoption, and Impact
Jai Lal Lulla, Vahram Nersesyan, Seyedmoein Mohsenimofidi +2
Over the past months, the way developers direct agentic AI coding tools has moved up several levels of abstraction, from phrasing prompts to engineering context to configuring the…
An Exploratory Study of Agent Plans for Agentic AI Coding Tools in Open-Source Software
Muhammad Auwal Abubakar, Seyedmoein Mohsenimofidi, Jai Lal Lulla +4
Repository-level configuration artifacts allow developers to provide guidance for agentic AI coding tools, such as Claude Code, Gemini, etc. Although prior research has examined re…
Harness Engineering for Agentic AI Coding Tools: An Exploratory Study
Matthias Galster, Seyedmoein Mohsenimofidi, Jai Lal Lulla +3
Agentic AI coding tools increasingly automate software development tasks. Developers can configure these tools through versioned repository-level artifacts such as Markdown and JSO…
A Dataset of Agentic AI Coding Tool Configurations
Matthias Galster, Seyedmoein Mohsenimofidi, Levi Böhme +4
Agentic AI coding tools such as Claude Code and OpenAI Codex execute multi-step coding tasks with limited human oversight. To steer these tools, developers create repository-level…
On the Impact of AGENTS.md Files on the Efficiency of AI Coding Agents
Jai Lal Lulla, Seyedmoein Mohsenimofidi, Matthias Galster +3
AI coding agents such as Codex and Claude Code are increasingly used to autonomously contribute to software repositories. However, little is known about how repository-level config…
Context Engineering for AI Agents in Open-Source Software
Seyedmoein Mohsenimofidi, Matthias Galster, Christoph Treude +1
GenAI-based coding assistants have disrupted software development. The next generation of these tools is agent-based, operating with more autonomy and potentially without human ove…