Self-Evolving Coding Rules for AI Coding Agents

arXiv:2610.00650 · cs.CL, cs.AI · Submitted 2026-09-30 · Read on arXiv

cs.CL, cs.AI

Submitted: 2026-09-30

Updated: 2026-09-30

Code: https://github.com/anomalyco/opencode

Terminology

• Pass Rate — 25× in this paper
• Benchmark — 21× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Code Characters — 16× in this paper
• Pruning — 5× in this paper · explained in 4 episodes
• Agentic Framework — 4× in this paper · explained in 6 episodes
• Ablation — 2× in this paper · explained in 1 episode
• Ablation study — 2× in this paper · explained in 1 episode
• Agent Skills — 2× in this paper · explained in 1 episode
• Agentic AI — 2× in this paper · explained in 1 episode
• Alignment — 2× in this paper · explained in 1 episode
• Robustness — 2× in this paper · explained in 5 episodes
• Self-Evolving Agents — 2× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Verification — 2× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Verifier — 2× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• AI Agents — 1× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Agentic System — 1× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Benchmarking — 1× in this paper · explained in 3 episodes
• Consistency — 1× in this paper · explained in 3 episodes
• Core — 1× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Generalizability — 1× in this paper · explained in 6 episodes
• Prompt Engineering — 1× in this paper · explained in 4 episodes
• Scaffolding — 1× in this paper · explained in 3 episodes
• Transformer — 1× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes

Sources

• Evaluating Large Language Models Trained on Code
• Dynamic Malicious Skills in Agentic AI
• Promptbreeder: Self-Referential Self-Improvement Via Prompt Evolution
• Harness Engineering for Agentic AI Coding Tools: An Exploratory Study
• Evaluating AGENTS.md: Are Repository-Level Context Files Helpful for Coding Agents?
• Guidelines to Prompt Large Language Models for Code Generation: An Empirical Characterization
• LLM Prompt Duel Optimizer: Efficient Label-Free Prompt Optimization
• Qwen3 Technical Report
• SkillOpt: Executive Strategy for Self-Evolving Agent Skills

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