Engineering Notes

Research references

These references provide supporting context for the series. They do not retroactively define the articles’ claims.

  1. Annie Vella and Kelly Blincoe. “The Impact of AI Coding Assistants on Software Engineering: A Longitudinal Study.” arXiv:2605.23135, 2026. arXiv
  2. Shukai Liu, Jian Yang, Bo Jiang, Yizhi Li, Jinyang Guo, Xianglong Liu, and Bryan Dai. “Context as a Tool: Context Management for Long-Horizon SWE-Agents.” arXiv:2512.22087, 2025. arXiv
  3. Tianjian Li, Jingyu Zhang, William Jurayj, Xi Wang, Chuanyang Jin, Mehrdad Farajtabar, Eric Nalisnick, and Daniel Khashabi. “Self-Compacting Language Model Agents.” arXiv:2606.23525, version 2, 2026. arXiv
  4. Jason Cusati and Chris Brown. “From Papers to Progress: Rethinking Knowledge Accumulation in Software Engineering.” ICSE-FoSE 2026. DOI: 10.1145/3793657.3793888. arXiv
  5. Bihui Yu, Caijun Jia, Jing Chi, Xiaohan Liu, Yining Wang, He Bai, Yuchen Liu, Jingxuan Wei, and Junnan Zhu. “TRACER: Verifiable Generative Provenance for Multimodal Tool-Using Agents.” arXiv:2605.09934, 2026. arXiv
  6. Yujun Zhou, Kehan Guo, Haomin Zhuang, Xiangqi Wang, Yue Huang, Zhenwen Liang, Pin-Yu Chen, Tian Gao, Nuno Moniz, Nitesh V. Chawla, and Xiangliang Zhang. “Getting Better at Working With You: Compiling User Corrections into Runtime Enforcement for Coding Agents.” arXiv:2606.13174, 2026. arXiv
  7. Thibaud Gloaguen, Niels Mündler, Mark Müller, Veselin Raychev, and Martin Vechev. “Evaluating AGENTS.md: Are Repository-Level Context Files Helpful for Coding Agents?” arXiv:2602.11988, 2026. arXiv
  8. Jenny Ma, Sitong Wang, Joshua H. Kung, and Lydia B. Chilton. “ZORO: Active Rules for Reliable Vibe Coding.” arXiv:2604.15625, 2026. arXiv

Attribution boundary

The local knowledge base classifies these works as adjacent support, parallel framing, or bounded support. None of them is presented here as validation of the complete AIWF runtime, evidence schema, correction-history model, or completion protocol.