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Research2026-08-27 · source-backed
The census covers artifacts from GitHub Spec Kit, OpenSpec, AWS Kiro and others, attributed to 17 named tools, plus a separate Kiro census of 98,574 files across 12,910 repositories in its requirements/design/tasks layout (arXiv 2608.25202). Each spec carries full repository metadata, complete commit history and parsed document structure. They also swept every PR touching a spec in repos with 10+ stars for 11 tools, capturing 5,992 PRs across 581 repositories, and indexed 2,421,323 typed references including 1.28M to code files. This is the dataset that makes the "does spec-driven development work" question answerable.
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Cursor benchmarked against Kiro / Shared entity: PRs / Shared topic / Earlier coverage / Tension
Linked by a graph relationship (Cursor benchmarked against Kiro); both cover PRs; overlapping topics (code, commit).
Cursor benchmarked against Kiro / Shared entity: PRs / Shared topic / Earlier coverage
Linked by a graph relationship (Cursor benchmarked against Kiro); both cover PRs; overlapping topics (code, development, tool).
Cursor benchmarked against Kiro / Shared entity: PRs / Same source domain / Earlier coverage
Linked by a graph relationship (Cursor benchmarked against Kiro); both cover PRs; reported by the same outlet (arxiv.org).
Cursor benchmarked against Kiro / Shared entity: Kiro / Shared topic / Earlier coverage
Linked by a graph relationship (Cursor benchmarked against Kiro); both cover Kiro; overlapping topics (code, tool).
Linked by a graph relationship (Cursor benchmarked against Kiro); both cover Kiro; overlapping topics (code, spec).
Linked by a graph relationship (Cursor benchmarked against Kiro); both cover Kiro; overlapping topics (code, tool).
Linked by a graph relationship (Cursor benchmarked against Kiro); both cover Kiro; overlapping topics (code, commit).
Linked by a graph relationship (Cursor benchmarked against Kiro); both cover Kiro; overlapping topics (code, tool).