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SWE-Touch: Benchmarking Coding Agents When Users Touch the Code

Real-world software development requires coding agents to operate in shared workspaces where users may inspect and modify code during an ongoing task, yet existing repository-level benchmarks typically evaluate agents working alone or restrict user participation to messages. This leads us to ask: how do coding agents understand and respond to code changes in a shared workspace? We introduce SWE-Touch, a framework that stress-tests this setting through validated Counter-Edits: plausible edits to

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Published: 3 August 2026
Source: arXiv cs.AI
Category: Research
Topics: Agents & autonomy
Retrieved: 4 August 2026

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ethics.ai (3 August 2026), “SWE-Touch: Benchmarking Coding Agents When Users Touch the Code,” evidence record 16091, https://ethics.ai/record/16091 (originally published by arXiv cs.AI).

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