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The Role of Agentic Instruction Categories for Code Generation: A Study of Five Python Libraries
Warren Gerald Polandra, Yoshiki Higo, Raula Gaikovina Kula
Agentic coding systems increasingly rely on repository-level agent files, such as AGENTS.md, to communicate project knowledge and developer intent. However, it remains unclear whic…
Agentic Dependency Transformations: Lessons from an Exploratory Case Study of Flask
Kaya Kitada, Yoshiki Higo, Raula Gaikovina Kula
Modern software relies heavily on third-party libraries, requiring maintainers to balance the benefits of reuse against dependency-related maintenance and risk. We define dependenc…
An Exploratory Study of Dependabot Cooldown Adoption in Open-Source GitHub Projects
Hidetake Tanaka, Rikuto Tsuchida, Kazumasa Shimari +2
Automated dependency updates can rapidly propagate malicious package releases before maintainers and the broader community have enough time to detect them. In July 2025, GitHub mad…
Cross-Ecosystem Packages As Multilingual: Prevalence, Architecture, and Health
Xiangxi Li, Olivier Nourry, Yoshiki Higo +1
Modern software development increasingly relies on using multiple programming languages. Some software packages are published to multiple package ecosystems such as NPM for JavaScr…
Agent ATO: Visualizing Agent Interaction Timelines from Logs
Takuto Kawamoto, Yoshiki Higo, Raula Gaikovina Kula
AI coding agents are becoming part of developers' workflows, but their behavior is difficult to understand from final code changes alone. During a task, agents interact with softwa…
Maintenance Signals in AI-Assisted GitHub Repositories: Evidence from GenAI Adopters
Rikuto Tsuchida, Youmei Fan, Kazumasa Shimari +3
Generative artificial intelligence (GenAI) can reduce code-generation effort, but it may shift work to documentation, validation, debugging, and maintenance. We study observable ma…