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Looping Is Not Reliability: State-Bound Evidence and Typed Revision Contracts for Agentic Code Repair
arXiv cs.AI · Published · 3 min read
In 30 seconds
- What happened
- Researchers show that simply looping code repairs through test-revise cycles doesn't guarantee reliability, proposing typed contracts binding verification evidence to exact code states.
- Why it matters
- Engineers building AI coding agents need this when deploying systems that auto-fix bugs, since repeated attempts can degrade correctness without proper state tracking.
- Watch out
- The reference implementation is specified as an executable specification, not proof of improved repair performance or evidence that verifiers work better in practice.
- agent
- agentic
The patterns behind this
- Blast-Radius Containment & Autonomy Bounds
- Chain of Verification (CoVe)
- RL from Verifiable Rewards (RLVR)
Each one covers how the technique works, when it earns its cost, and where it breaks.
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