PAUSE: Search-Free Steering of Coding Agents Before Their First Source-Code Edit

arXiv:2610.29870 · cs.SE, cs.AI · Submitted 2026-10-21 · Read on arXiv

cs.SE, cs.AI

Submitted: 2026-10-21

Updated: 2026-10-21

Comments: 21 pages

License: http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/

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