BUILD-AND-FIND: An Effort-Aware Protocol for Evaluating Agent-Managed Codebases

ArXi:2605.06136v1 Announce Type: cross Most coding-agent benchmarks ask whether generated code behaves correctly. That remains essential, but repository-level engineering is increasingly agent-managed: one agent writes a repository, and later agents inspect, audit, or extend it as working context. In that setting, a generated repository is not only an answer to a task but also a communication artifact for future work.