BUILD-AND-FIND: An Effort-Aware Protocol for Evaluating Agent-Managed Codebases

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Learn to evaluate agent-managed codebases with BUILD-AND-FIND, a protocol that considers effort awareness in repository-level engineering

advanced Published 9 May 2026
Action Steps
  1. Implement BUILD-AND-FIND protocol to evaluate agent-managed codebases
  2. Run experiments to compare the performance of different agents in managing codebases
  3. Configure effort-aware metrics to assess the quality of generated repositories
  4. Test the protocol on various coding tasks and repository sizes
  5. Apply BUILD-AND-FIND to real-world scenarios and refine the protocol based on feedback
Who Needs to Know This

Software engineers, DevOps teams, and AI researchers can benefit from this protocol to improve the evaluation of agent-managed codebases and enhance collaboration between humans and agents

Key Insight

💡 Evaluating agent-managed codebases requires considering not only correctness but also effort awareness and repository-level engineering

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Learn to evaluate agent-managed codebases with BUILD-AND-FIND, a protocol that considers effort awareness in repository-level engineering

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Title: BUILD-AND-FIND: An Effort-Aware Protocol for Evaluating Agent-Managed Codebases

Abstract:
arXiv:2605.06136v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Most coding-agent benchmarks ask whether generated code behaves correctly. That remains essential, but repository-level engineering is increasingly agent-managed: one agent writes a repository, and later agents inspect, audit, or extend it as working context. In that setting, a generated repository is not only an answer to a task but also a communication artifact for future work. Even when strong agents nearly satisfy the visible behavioral objec
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