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Add an explanation-audit agent to your review pipeline — agent explanation quality diverges from SWE-bench Verified, including false claims that a patch is correct
ExplainBench (July 29, 2026) evaluates whether an agent's explanation actually lets a reader answer questions about code behavior and patch effects — a different axis from whether the patch passes. Explanation quality diverged notably from SWE-bench Verified scores, and a recurring failure was agents asserting patch correctness that didn't hold, which is precisely the failure that defeats human review by making a bad patch read as vetted. The actionable piece: the authors show a dedicated explanation-audit agent, running additional tests, improved trustworthiness across every agent evaluated — a cheap second pass worth adding wherever humans sign off on agent patches.
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