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Agent READMEs: An Empirical Study of Context Files for Agentic Coding

As of 16 August 2026, this Paper Citation Record lists 0 of 0 outbound references and 19 inbound Pith citation observations for arXiv:2511.12884.

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Harness Engineering for Agentic AI Coding Tools: An Exploratory Study cites this paper.

Harness Engineering for Agentic AI Coding Tools: An Exploratory Study Agent READMEs: An Empirical Study of Context Files for Agentic Coding

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ContextCov: Deriving and Enforcing Executable Constraints from Agent Instruction Files cites this paper.

ContextCov: Deriving and Enforcing Executable Constraints from Agent Instruction Files Agent READMEs: An Empirical Study of Context Files for Agentic Coding

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From Industry Claims to Empirical Reality: An Empirical Study of Code Review Agents in Pull Requests cites this paper.

From Industry Claims to Empirical Reality: An Empirical Study of Code Review Agents in Pull Requests Agent READMEs: An Empirical Study of Context Files for Agentic Coding

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KISS Sorcar: A Stupidly-Simple General-Purpose and Software Engineering AI Assistant cites this paper.

KISS Sorcar: A Stupidly-Simple General-Purpose and Software Engineering AI Assistant Agent READMEs: An Empirical Study of Context Files for Agentic Coding

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KISS Sorcar: A Stupidly-Simple General-Purpose and Software Engineering AI Assistant cites this paper.

KISS Sorcar: A Stupidly-Simple General-Purpose and Software Engineering AI Assistant Agent READMEs: An Empirical Study of Context Files for Agentic Coding

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Accountable Agents in Software Engineering: An Analysis of Terms of Service and a Research Roadmap cites this paper.

Accountable Agents in Software Engineering: An Analysis of Terms of Service and a Research Roadmap Agent READMEs: An Empirical Study of Context Files for Agentic Coding

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Observation 26245ac1-734b-4cb6-9317-26c81a25a59c · inbound

Operationalizing Ethics for AI Agents: How Developers Encode Values into Repository Context Files cites this paper.

Operationalizing Ethics for AI Agents: How Developers Encode Values into Repository Context Files Agent READMEs: An Empirical Study of Context Files for Agentic Coding

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A Dataset of Agentic AI Coding Tool Configurations cites this paper.

A Dataset of Agentic AI Coding Tool Configurations Agent READMEs: An Empirical Study of Context Files for Agentic Coding

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Instruction Adherence in Coding Agent Configuration Files: A Factorial Study of Four File-Structure Variables cites this paper.

Instruction Adherence in Coding Agent Configuration Files: A Factorial Study of Four File-Structure Variables Agent READMEs: An Empirical Study of Context Files for Agentic Coding

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BootstrapAgent: Distilling Repository Setup into Reusable Agent Knowledge cites this paper.

BootstrapAgent: Distilling Repository Setup into Reusable Agent Knowledge Agent READMEs: An Empirical Study of Context Files for Agentic Coding

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Rule Taxonomy and Evolution in AI IDEs: A Mining and Survey Study cites this paper.

Rule Taxonomy and Evolution in AI IDEs: A Mining and Survey Study Agent READMEs: An Empirical Study of Context Files for Agentic Coding

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Toward Instructions-as-Code: Understanding the Impact of Instruction Files on Agentic Pull Requests cites this paper.

Toward Instructions-as-Code: Understanding the Impact of Instruction Files on Agentic Pull Requests Agent READMEs: An Empirical Study of Context Files for Agentic Coding

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Probe-and-Refine Tuning of Repository Guidance for Coding Agents cites this paper.

Probe-and-Refine Tuning of Repository Guidance for Coding Agents Agent READMEs: An Empirical Study of Context Files for Agentic Coding

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ActPlane: Programmable OS-Level Policy Enforcement for Agent Harnesses cites this paper.

ActPlane: Programmable OS-Level Policy Enforcement for Agent Harnesses Agent READMEs: An Empirical Study of Context Files for Agentic Coding

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ActPlane: Programmable OS-Level Policy Enforcement for Agent Harnesses cites this paper.

ActPlane: Programmable OS-Level Policy Enforcement for Agent Harnesses Agent READMEs: An Empirical Study of Context Files for Agentic Coding

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How Do Developers Maintain and Evolve Their Agents' Instructions? An Empirical Study cites this paper.

How Do Developers Maintain and Evolve Their Agents' Instructions? An Empirical Study Agent READMEs: An Empirical Study of Context Files for Agentic Coding

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From Registry to Repository: How AI Agent Skills Are Written, Adapted, and Maintained cites this paper.

From Registry to Repository: How AI Agent Skills Are Written, Adapted, and Maintained Agent READMEs: An Empirical Study of Context Files for Agentic Coding

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Why Does CLAUDE.md Keep Growing? Catastrophic Remembering in Agentic Coding cites this paper.

Why Does CLAUDE.md Keep Growing? Catastrophic Remembering in Agentic Coding Agent READMEs: An Empirical Study of Context Files for Agentic Coding

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The Devil Is in the Interface: Evaluating How Tool Architecture Shapes Coding Agent Behavior cites this paper.

The Devil Is in the Interface: Evaluating How Tool Architecture Shapes Coding Agent Behavior Agent READMEs: An Empirical Study of Context Files for Agentic Coding

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