LinkAnchor: An Autonomous LLM-Based Agent for Issue-to-Commit Link Recovery

ArXi:2508.12232v3 Announce Type: replace-cross Issue-to-commit link recovery in software repositories is fundamental to software traceability and project management, yet it remains a challenging task. Prior studies show that only about 42.2% of issues on GitHub are correctly linked to their commits, highlighting the need for effective solutions. Existing work has explored a range of ML/DL approaches, and recently, large language models (LLMs) have been applied to this problem. However, these methods face two major limitations.