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Skills2026-08-03 · source-backed
Metaphorical instructions transfer procedural mechanisms from the source domain into generated code, pushing toward exhaustive search and full scans, traced to a hidden-state shift rather than surface phrasing. "Sweep through the records" is an algorithmic hint. Write "O(log n) lookup required" instead.
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arXiv 2607.28683 shows metaphorical instructions trigger analogical transfer of procedural mechanisms from the source domain into generated code, pushing toward exhaustive search, full scans, or repeated reconstruction without naming an algorithm. The MASC framework iterativel...
This one falsifies an assumption a lot of this year's agent tooling is built on, mine included. The paper is WER (Write, Execute, Refine), arXiv 2608.17587, published 2026-08-18. It opens with a measurement rather than a method: skills that an agent authors for itself perform...
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SkillReducer found over 60% of typical skill-file content is prose that doesn't change agent behavior, and reference files can inject tens of thousands of tokens per call. Mechanical compression yielded a mean 77.5% token cut without losing capability. Strip the narrative, pus...
An ArXiv study analyzing Claude Code's design space found something that should make every "auto-generate your context files" workflow uncomfortable. Human-curated CLAUDE.md files improved task success rates by roughly 4 percentage points. LLM-generated CLAUDE.md files reduced...
Here's a stat that should change how you plan your engineering workflow: OpenAI Codex has generated over 400,000 pull requests in two months. Code review agents are no longer experimental. They're routine gatekeepers in development workflows at scale. So researchers did what n...
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