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arxiv: 2603.05744 · v2 · submitted 2026-03-05 · 💻 cs.CL · cs.SE

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CodeScout: Contextual Problem Statement Enhancement for Software Agents

Manan Suri , Xiangci Li , Mehdi Shojaie , Songyang Han , Chao-Chun Hsu , Shweta Garg , Aniket Anand Deshmukh , Varun Kumar
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CodeScout converts underspecified code requests into actionable statements that improve agent resolution rates by 20 percent.

A machine-rendered reading of the paper's core claim, the machinery that carries it, and where it could break.

AI code agents often fail on vague tasks because they explore too much or repeat fixes without progress. CodeScout fixes this by performing a quick scan of the relevant codebase before the main work begins. The scan gathers context and rewrites the original request into a fuller problem statement that includes expected behaviors and specific hints. This change happens in natural language and requires no alterations to the agent systems themselves. When tested on a standard set of software issues, the method resolved 20 percent more cases than the usual approach.

Core claim

The paper establishes that lightweight pre-exploration of the target codebase allows systematic conversion of underspecified user requests into comprehensive problem statements containing reproduction steps, expected behaviors, and targeted exploration hints. This process reduces non-converging trajectories in agentic scaffolds and yields a 20 percent improvement in resolution rates on SWEBench-Verified, resolving up to 27 additional issues compared to baseline methods.

What carries the argument

The CodeScout pipeline of targeted context scoping followed by multi-perspective analysis and synthesis of insights into enhanced problem statements.

Load-bearing premise

A quick pre-exploration of the codebase will reliably uncover the right context and produce helpful refinements without introducing errors or missing important details.

What would settle it

Run CodeScout on a set of tasks where the pre-exploration step generates incorrect reproduction steps or overlooks key dependencies, and check if resolution rates then drop below the baseline.

Figures

Figures reproduced from arXiv: 2603.05744 by Aniket Anand Deshmukh, Chao-Chun Hsu, Manan Suri, Mehdi Shojaie, Shweta Garg, Songyang Han, Varun Kumar, Xiangci Li.

Figure 1
Figure 1. Figure 1: The original SWEBench problem statement for Instance django__django-11790 lack relevant initial context. As a result, the downstream agent is not able to fix the issue, despite spending 21 steps exploring the repository, analyzing code, iterating the fix patch. In contrast, the enhanced problem statement generated by our approach resolves the issue in 6 agentic steps, as it includes relevant insights that … view at source ↗
Figure 2
Figure 2. Figure 2: CodeScout: The pre-exploration with Repository Knowledge Graph Construction, which represents code structure and relationships. Building on this, three main stages follow: 1) High Level Scoping, where an LLM agent identifies relevant exploration targets, 2) Fine-grained Context Analysis, which extracts structured insights for each target, and 3) Problem Synthesis, where the original problem statement is co… view at source ↗
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Figure 3. Figure 3: Main comparison between default (no augmentation) and our contextual augmentation across three LLMs (GPT-5- mini, Qwen3 Coder, DeepSeek R1) and three scaffolds (SWE-Agent, OpenHands, Mini-SWE-Agent). Augmentation yields consistent improvements in resolution rate; gains are largest when the runtime LLM has weaker agentic abilities. For SWE-agent, we enforce cost limits of 1.0, 1.0, and 0.75 USD per model, r… view at source ↗
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Figure 4. Figure 4: Localization comparison (file-level and function￾level) using SWE-Agent as the scaffold. the ground-truth patch). At both file- and function￾level granularity the augmented setting improves localization accuracy over the default across mod￾els. The improvement is particularly large for DeepSeek R1 (which lacks strong agentic rea￾soning out-of-the-box), indicating that workflow￾driven augmentation helps wea… view at source ↗
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Figure 5. Figure 5: and [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p007_5.png] view at source ↗
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Figure 6. Figure 6: Augmentation metrics: number of LLM calls, tokens and dollar cost per instance. by GPT-5-mini remain a deployment consideration. 6.4 Impact on problem statements Augmentation increases the mean length of prob￾lem statements ( [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p007_6.png] view at source ↗
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Figure 7. Figure 7: Distribution of problem-statement lengths (token count) for Default vs Augmented. 7 [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p007_7.png] view at source ↗
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Figure 8. Figure 8: Evolution of tool-call proportions across a trajectory (Default vs CodeScout) for SWE-Agent. tion: the initial fraction of calls to view and grep rises and find falls, consistent with more targeted exploration. Later phases show expected increases in active repository actions (patching, creates, runs). These changes indicate that augmentation enables agents to begin trajectories with higher-quality search … view at source ↗
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Figure 9. Figure 9: CodeScout visualization for matplotlib__matplotlib-13989 with DeepSeek-R1. 14 [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p014_9.png] view at source ↗
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Figure 10. Figure 10: CodeScout visualization for matplotlib__matplotlib-13989 with Qwen3-Coder. 15 [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p015_10.png] view at source ↗
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Figure 11. Figure 11: CodeScout visualization for matplotlib__matplotlib-13989 with GPT-5-mini. 16 [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p016_11.png] view at source ↗
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Figure 12. Figure 12: CodeScout visualization for pytest-dev__pytest-10051 with DeepSeek-R1. 17 [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p017_12.png] view at source ↗
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Figure 13. Figure 13: CodeScout visualization for pytest-dev__pytest-10051 with Qwen3-Coder. 18 [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p018_13.png] view at source ↗
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Figure 14. Figure 14: CodeScout visualization for pytest-dev__pytest-10051 with GPT-5-mini. 19 [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p019_14.png] view at source ↗
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Figure 15. Figure 15: CodeScout visualization for scikit-learn__scikit-learn-10297 with DeepSeek-R1. 20 [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p020_15.png] view at source ↗
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Figure 16. Figure 16: CodeScout visualization for scikit-learn__scikit-learn-10297 with Qwen3-Coder. 21 [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p021_16.png] view at source ↗
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Figure 17. Figure 17: CodeScout visualization for scikit-learn__scikit-learn-10297 with GPT-5-mini. 22 [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p022_17.png] view at source ↗
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Figure 18. Figure 18: CodeScout visualization for sphinx-doc__sphinx-10323 with DeepSeek-R1. 23 [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p023_18.png] view at source ↗
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Figure 19. Figure 19: CodeScout visualization for sphinx-doc__sphinx-10323 with Qwen3-Coder. 24 [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p024_19.png] view at source ↗
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Figure 20. Figure 20: CodeScout visualization for sphinx-doc__sphinx-10323 with GPT-5-mini. 25 [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p025_20.png] view at source ↗
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Figure 21. Figure 21: CodeScout visualization for sympy__sympy-11618 with DeepSeek-R1. 26 [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p026_21.png] view at source ↗
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Figure 22. Figure 22: CodeScout visualization for sympy__sympy-11618 with Qwen3-Coder. 27 [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p027_22.png] view at source ↗
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Figure 23. Figure 23: CodeScout visualization for sympy__sympy-11618 with GPT-5-mini. 28 [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p028_23.png] view at source ↗
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Figure 24. Figure 24: CodeScout relevance score distribution across all three methods. 0 2 4 6 8 10 Maximum Relevance Score 0 50 100 150 200 250 Frequency DeepSeek-R1 Qwen 3 Coder GPT-5-mini [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p029_24.png] view at source ↗
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Figure 25. Figure 25: CodeScout maximum relevance score distri [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p029_25.png] view at source ↗
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Figure 27. Figure 27: CodeScout target coverage: Venn diagram showing unique and shared exploration targets. 29 [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p029_27.png] view at source ↗
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Figure 28. Figure 28: CodeScout agreement analysis: Bland-Altman plots comparing average scores between LLMs. [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p030_28.png] view at source ↗
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Figure 29. Figure 29: CodeScout score agreement heatmaps between methods for common targets. [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p030_29.png] view at source ↗
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Current AI-powered code assistance tools often struggle with poorly-defined problem statements that lack sufficient task context and requirements specification. Recent analysis of software engineering agents reveals that failures on such underspecified requests are highly correlated with longer trajectories involving either over-exploration or repeated attempts at applying the same fix without proper evolution or testing, leading to suboptimal outcomes across software development tasks. We introduce CodeScout, a contextual query refinement approach that systematically converts underspecified user requests into comprehensive, actionable problem statements through lightweight pre-exploration of the target codebase. Our key innovation is demonstrating that structured analysis before task execution can supplement existing agentic capabilities without requiring any modifications to their underlying scaffolds. CodeScout performs targeted context scoping, conducts multi-perspective analysis examining potential fixes and exploration opportunities, then synthesizes these insights into enhanced problem statements with reproduction steps, expected behaviors, and targeted exploration hints. This pre-exploration directly addresses the identified failure patterns by reducing non-converging agent trajectories while clarifying user intent in natural language space. We evaluate CodeScout using state-of-the-art agentic scaffolds and language models on SWEBench-Verified, demonstrating a 20\% improvement in resolution rates with up to 27 additional issues resolved compared to the default baseline method. Our results suggest that systematic query refinement through contextual analysis represents a promising direction for enhancing AI code assistance capabilities.

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Referee Report

3 major / 2 minor

Summary. The manuscript introduces CodeScout, a lightweight pre-exploration method that converts underspecified user requests into enhanced problem statements containing reproduction steps, expected behaviors, and exploration hints. It claims this approach reduces non-converging trajectories in software agents without modifying underlying scaffolds, and reports a 20% improvement in resolution rates on SWE-Bench-Verified (up to 27 additional issues resolved) relative to default baselines using state-of-the-art agentic scaffolds and language models.

Significance. If the reported gains prove robust, the result would be significant because it demonstrates that scaffold-agnostic contextual refinement can address documented failure modes (over-exploration and repeated-fix loops) in agentic code repair. The approach is presented as low-overhead and complementary to existing frameworks, which could influence practical deployment of AI coding assistants.

major comments (3)
  1. [Evaluation] Evaluation section: the abstract and results claim a 20% resolution-rate lift on SWE-Bench-Verified with up to 27 additional issues resolved, yet supply no description of the baseline implementation, exact data splits, run-to-run variance, or statistical significance tests. This leaves the central performance claim unsupported by visible evidence.
  2. [Experiments] Method and Experiments: no per-task breakdown of trajectory length, termination step count, or failure-mode taxonomy (e.g., over-exploration vs. repeated-fix loops) is provided for baseline versus CodeScout runs. Without isolating whether gains arise from fewer non-converging trajectories, added context, or extra LM calls, the mechanistic claim cannot be verified.
  3. [§3] §3 (Contextual Analysis): the assumption that lightweight pre-exploration reliably produces actionable statements without introducing new failure modes is stated but not tested via ablation or comparative trajectory analysis.
minor comments (2)
  1. [Related Work] The introduction of the term 'CodeScout' and its relation to prior query-refinement work would benefit from an explicit comparison table or paragraph in the related-work section.
  2. [Figures/Tables] Figure captions and table headers should explicitly state the number of runs and confidence intervals used for the reported resolution rates.

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We thank the referee for the constructive feedback. We address each major comment below and have revised the manuscript to provide the requested details and analyses where feasible.

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  1. Referee: [Evaluation] Evaluation section: the abstract and results claim a 20% resolution-rate lift on SWE-Bench-Verified with up to 27 additional issues resolved, yet supply no description of the baseline implementation, exact data splits, run-to-run variance, or statistical significance tests. This leaves the central performance claim unsupported by visible evidence.

    Authors: We agree that the original manuscript lacked sufficient detail on these aspects. In the revised version, we have expanded the Evaluation section to fully describe the baseline implementation (including the exact agentic scaffolds and language models), specify the SWE-Bench-Verified data splits used, report run-to-run variance across three independent seeds, and include statistical significance tests (paired t-test and McNemar's test) supporting the reported 20% lift and 27 additional resolved issues. revision: yes

  2. Referee: [Experiments] Method and Experiments: no per-task breakdown of trajectory length, termination step count, or failure-mode taxonomy (e.g., over-exploration vs. repeated-fix loops) is provided for baseline versus CodeScout runs. Without isolating whether gains arise from fewer non-converging trajectories, added context, or extra LM calls, the mechanistic claim cannot be verified.

    Authors: We acknowledge that full per-task breakdowns for the entire benchmark would be impractical due to length and cost. In the revision, we add aggregate statistics comparing average trajectory lengths and termination steps between baseline and CodeScout. We also provide a failure-mode taxonomy derived from manual inspection of a 50-task sample, showing reductions in over-exploration and repeated-fix loops. To isolate mechanisms, we include a new ablation comparing CodeScout against baselines with matched extra LM calls, confirming gains primarily arise from reduced non-converging trajectories due to added context. revision: partial

  3. Referee: [§3] §3 (Contextual Analysis): the assumption that lightweight pre-exploration reliably produces actionable statements without introducing new failure modes is stated but not tested via ablation or comparative trajectory analysis.

    Authors: We agree the assumption in §3 required empirical testing. The revised manuscript adds an ablation study within §3 that compares full pre-exploration against no-pre-exploration and simplified variants. We also include comparative trajectory analysis on representative tasks, demonstrating that the lightweight pre-exploration produces actionable statements without introducing new failure modes, as convergence rates remain stable or improve. revision: yes

Circularity Check

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full rationale

The paper presents CodeScout as an empirical method that performs lightweight pre-exploration to refine problem statements and evaluates the approach directly on the external SWE-Bench-Verified benchmark, reporting resolution-rate gains. No equations, fitted parameters, self-definitional constructs, or load-bearing self-citations appear in the provided text; the central claim is grounded in experimental outcomes against an independent benchmark rather than any internal reduction of results to the method's own inputs by construction. The derivation chain is therefore self-contained.

Axiom & Free-Parameter Ledger

0 free parameters · 1 axioms · 1 invented entities

The central claim depends on the domain assumption that pre-exploration can be performed lightly and still supply sufficient context to alter agent trajectories; no free parameters or new physical entities are introduced.

axioms (1)
  • domain assumption Structured analysis before task execution can supplement existing agentic capabilities without requiring modifications to their underlying scaffolds.
    Stated explicitly as the key innovation in the abstract.
invented entities (1)
  • CodeScout no independent evidence
    purpose: Contextual query refinement system that performs pre-exploration and synthesizes enhanced problem statements.
    New named method introduced by the paper; no independent evidence outside the reported benchmark is supplied.

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    `RidgeClassifierCV` should accept the `store_cv_values` boolean parameter in its constructor with default value `False`2. When `store_cv_values=True` and `cv=None` (default GCV), the fitted object should have a populated `cv_values_` attribute containing cross-validation values for each sample and alpha3. The `cv_values_` attribute should have shape `[n_s...

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    Alternative reproduction options: - Try instantiating RidgeCV (regression) with store_cv_values=True to confirm regression estimator handles the argument (expected to succeed for the same scikit-learn version). - Try passing store_cv_values to RidgeClassifierCV with different cv values (cv=None vs cv=KFold()) — the TypeError prevents these experiments unt...

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    **Build the documentation** with `sphinx-build` (using `-W` to treat warnings as errors): ```bash sphinx-build -W -b html docs/ out/ ``` - **Result**: Malformed XML indentation in the rendered output: ```xml <plugin> <groupId>com.github.ekryd.sortpom</groupId> ... </plugin> ``` - **Warning (if `dedent` is used creatively)**: ``` WARNING: non-whitespace st...

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    - **Key Insight:** The `distance` method likely uses `zip` for coordinate pairing, truncating to the shorter dimension

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    The `distance` method lacks similar checks

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    **Dynamic Dimension Adaptation:** - The `Point` superclass might dynamically adjust dimensions, but the `distance` method fails to account for this. **Recommendation:** Align `distance` with arithmetic operations by enforcing dimension equality. This ensures consistency and prevents silent errors. If implicit padding is desired, document the behavior clea...

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    This matches add/sub behaviour and prevents silent errors

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