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ZORO: Active Rules for Reliable Vibe Coding

Jenny Ma , Sitong Wang , Joshua H. Kung , Lydia B. Chilton
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ZORO integrates rules directly into AI coding workflows by enriching plans, enforcing compliance with proof requirements, and evolving rules via user feedback, resulting in better rule adherence and shifts in user behavior.

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Developers often use rules files to guide AI coding assistants, but these rules are passive and it's hard to know if they're being followed or how to make them better. ZORO is an interactive interface that changes this by connecting directly to the coding agent. After the agent creates an initial plan for a coding task, ZORO adds relevant rules to that plan. During the implementation phase, the agent must demonstrate that it has followed each rule before proceeding. Users can then give immediate feedback if they're not happy with how a rule was applied, which helps refine the rules for future tasks. The researchers conducted a technical evaluation showing that agents using ZORO adhered to rules more consistently than those without it. They also performed a user study where participants used the system, and the results indicated shifts in how people behaved and thought about the rules during the coding process. By making rules active participants in the workflow rather than background text, ZORO aims to improve alignment between human intentions and AI actions in coding. This feedback loop allows rules to evolve based on real-world use, potentially leading to more effective and personalized guidance for AI agents. The approach highlights the importance of visibility and accountability in human-AI interactions, suggesting that similar active mechanisms could be applied in other collaborative domains beyond coding.

Core claim

A technical evaluation shows that coding agents follow rules more with ZORO than without. A user study demonstrates a change in people's behavior and cognitive strategies when rules are at the forefront of vibe coding.

Load-bearing premise

The technical evaluation and user study provide unbiased, generalizable evidence that ZORO improves rule adherence and alters user strategies, without unstated limitations in study design or participant selection.

Figures

Figures reproduced from arXiv: 2604.15625 by Jenny Ma, Joshua H. Kung, Lydia B. Chilton, Sitong Wang.

Figure 1
Figure 1. Figure 1: Zoro makes rules active by instantiating a framework called Enrich-Enforce-Evolve to push rules to the forefront of vibe coding. When a user vibe codes with an agent, the agent first generates an initial plan. This initial plan is enriched with rules. As the plan is being executed, the agent must enforce the rules by proving each rule was followed. Finally, the user can give feedback for each rule applicat… view at source ↗
Figure 2
Figure 2. Figure 2: Enrich-Enforce-Evolve is a framework for making rules active. In Enrich, multiple rules, including Rule 7, are retrieved and used to reshape the plan (i.e. add sub steps to Step 1) before the agent executes the plan. In the figure, we illustrate the agent executing Step 1b. The agent must both generate code and prove that Rule 7 is being followed through code evidence and unit tests. A user adds in-situ no… view at source ↗
Figure 3
Figure 3. Figure 3: Zoro Ecosystem. Zoro consists of two parts: 1) a python package called zoro-cli and 2) a rule visualization interface for the user to manage rules and sessions, audit enforcement evidence, and add in-situ notes. zoro-cli exists to constrain the agent during enforcement so that the agent has a mechanism via the CLI commands to report evidence that the rules are followed; how the agent must use zoro-cli is d… view at source ↗
Figure 4
Figure 4. Figure 4: Zoro’s Visualization Interface. The user can see all vibe coded sessions that used the Zoro protocol on the left. They can interact with the plan by adding, moving, or deleting rules from each step of the plan. They can also further re-shape the plan, both manually or by calling an LLM. As the agent codes, users can track its progress, audit enforcement evidence, and add in-situ notes. (More details on the… view at source ↗
Figure 5
Figure 5. Figure 5: Batch Rule Refine Modal. Users click Evolve to access this modal and iterate through all the refined rules. For each refined rule, they can see the rule applications for it, and make edits to the newly refined rule as needed. quickly because their rules are non-strict; others are slower due to enforcement. By the end of Step 3, Johnny has shipped the feature and has a clear record of how every rule was app… view at source ↗
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Figure 6. Figure 6: Rules Followed Notably, even in the best condition, rules are followed only 80% of the time. A qualitative analysis of the rules suggests that failures often stem not from the agent’s inability to follow the rules, but from limitations in the rules themselves. Rules frequently contain ambiguities, gaps, or unintended loopholes. Agents tend to follow rules “to the letter,” which can lead to behavior that sa… view at source ↗
Figure 7
Figure 7. Figure 7: Feature Completeness 5.2.3 What types of rules does Zoro work best for? We investigate which rules benefit most from enforcement. Our data reveals a meaningful distinction between two categories: coding rules and process rules. Coding rules govern how code should be written — for example, naming conventions, API structure, or formatting patterns that are visible directly in the codebase. Process rules, by … view at source ↗
Figure 8
Figure 8. Figure 8: Process Rules 6 User Study We conduct a user study with the full Zoro system (Enrich-Enforce￾Evolve) to explore the following research questions (RQs): • RQ1: What benefits does Enrich-Enforce-Evolve provide? • RQ2: How does Zoro change users’ vibe coding behaviors? [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p009_8.png] view at source ↗
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Figure 10. Figure 10: Rules Followed We found that rule enforcement improved significantly from Task 1 to Task 2, consistent with our expectation that rules are initially underspecified and benefit from refinement. In Task 1, participants enforced rules from their own rulesets, achieving a pass rate of 77.9% (60/77). By interacting with Zoro, participants surfaced underspecified rules and refined them before Task 2, where the … view at source ↗
Figure 11
Figure 11. Figure 11: Rule Management Tab 2 1 [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p016_11.png] view at source ↗
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Figure 12. Figure 12: Rule Review A.7 Rule Management The Rule Management tab provides a structured interface for inspecting and organizing the full ruleset. Each rule is displayed as a card showing its title, description, category (e.g., ui, backend, workflow), enforcement level, confidence score, and decay score. Confidence reflects how strongly a rule aligns with verified prior user behavior; decay captures how general or c… view at source ↗
Figure 13
Figure 13. Figure 13: Rule Management Tab B Technical Evaluation B.1 Evaluation Tasks Name Description Primary Technical Focus AI-powered Note Organization Automatically organizes notes into folders using LLMs, with chunking, folder preview, drag-and-drop, and grounded AI chat for querying notes. Semantic content transformation, bulk state updates, human review before commit Calendar Tracking Displays note activity per day, we… view at source ↗
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Rules files (e.g., AGENTS\.md, CLAUDE\.md) are the primary mechanism for human-agent alignment when developers vibe code. However, they remain passive: it is not immediately apparent when rules are being used or followed, or how to improve them. To transform rules from passive text into active controls, we introduce ZORO, an interactive interface that integrates directly with a coding agent and anchors rules to every step of the coding process. After an agent generates an initial plan, ZORO enriches the plan with rules, enforces the rules during implementation by requiring the agent prove that each rule was followed, and allows users to provide in-situ feedback when they are unsatisfied with a rule application to evolve the ruleset. A technical evaluation shows that coding agents follow rules more with ZORO than without. A user study demonstrates a change in people's behavior and cognitive strategies when rules are at the forefront of vibe coding. We discuss how making rules active in agentic systems unlocks broader opportunities for human-agent alignment in coding settings and beyond.

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Referee Report

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Summary. The paper introduces ZORO, an interactive interface integrated with coding agents to transform passive rules files (e.g., AGENTS.md) into active controls during vibe coding. ZORO enriches an agent's initial plan with rules, requires the agent to prove rule adherence at each implementation step, and enables in-situ user feedback to evolve the ruleset. The authors report that a technical evaluation demonstrates higher rule-following rates with ZORO than without, and a user study shows shifts in user behavior and cognitive strategies when rules are foregrounded.

Significance. If the reported evaluations hold under scrutiny, the work could meaningfully advance human-agent alignment mechanisms in AI-assisted software development by addressing the passivity of current rules-based approaches. The core idea of anchoring rules to every agent step and supporting iterative refinement has clear applicability beyond coding to other agentic workflows. However, the absence of any methods, metrics, or results details in the manuscript leaves the practical impact and generalizability unassessable at present.

major comments (2)
  1. [Abstract] Abstract: The central claims rest on a 'technical evaluation' showing improved rule adherence and a 'user study' demonstrating behavioral change, yet no methods, baselines, metrics (e.g., how 'follow rules more' is quantified), sample sizes, controls, or statistical tests are described anywhere in the manuscript. This renders the positive outcomes unverifiable and prevents evaluation of whether the interface actually delivers the stated benefits.
  2. No evaluation sections present: The manuscript provides no description of the technical evaluation protocol (e.g., agent models tested, rule sets used, proof mechanism implementation, or quantitative comparison results) or the user study design (e.g., tasks, participant recruitment, measurement of 'cognitive strategies,' or qualitative/quantitative findings). These details are load-bearing for the paper's contribution claims.
minor comments (1)
  1. [Abstract] The abstract uses the term 'vibe coding' without a concise definition or reference to prior usage, which may reduce clarity for readers outside the immediate subfield.

Simulated Author's Rebuttal

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We thank the referee for their careful reading and for identifying the need for greater transparency in our evaluation reporting. The comments correctly note that the current manuscript version does not contain sufficient methodological and results detail to allow independent assessment of the claimed benefits. We will address this by adding dedicated evaluation sections in the revised manuscript.

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  1. Referee: [Abstract] Abstract: The central claims rest on a 'technical evaluation' showing improved rule adherence and a 'user study' demonstrating behavioral change, yet no methods, baselines, metrics (e.g., how 'follow rules more' is quantified), sample sizes, controls, or statistical tests are described anywhere in the manuscript. This renders the positive outcomes unverifiable and prevents evaluation of whether the interface actually delivers the stated benefits.

    Authors: We agree that the abstract and main text currently omit the concrete details required to verify the evaluation outcomes. In the revision we will expand the abstract to report key quantitative results (e.g., rule-adherence percentages with and without ZORO, effect sizes) and will insert a new Evaluation section. This section will specify: the LLMs used as agents, the rule sets and proof-generation mechanism, the exact metric for rule adherence (manual coding of each implementation step with inter-rater reliability), baseline conditions, participant/task counts, and the statistical tests performed. The same section will describe the user-study protocol, including recruitment, tasks, measurement of cognitive-strategy shifts (think-aloud transcripts and post-task questionnaires), and both quantitative and qualitative findings. revision: yes

  2. Referee: [—] No evaluation sections present: The manuscript provides no description of the technical evaluation protocol (e.g., agent models tested, rule sets used, proof mechanism implementation, or quantitative comparison results) or the user study design (e.g., tasks, participant recruitment, measurement of 'cognitive strategies,' or qualitative/quantitative findings). These details are load-bearing for the paper's contribution claims.

    Authors: We concur that the manuscript as submitted lacks the required protocol and results descriptions. We will add two new sections: 'Technical Evaluation' and 'User Study.' The former will detail the agent models, rule sets, how the proof-of-adherence step is implemented and checked, quantitative comparison tables, and statistical analysis. The latter will describe study design (within- or between-subjects), participant recruitment and demographics, coding tasks, instruments used to capture behavioral and cognitive changes, and the observed shifts with supporting excerpts. These additions will make the contribution claims directly assessable. revision: yes

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full rationale

The paper introduces ZORO as an interactive system for making rules active during agentic coding, supported by claims of a technical evaluation (showing improved rule adherence) and a user study (showing behavioral changes). No equations, mathematical derivations, fitted parameters, self-citations, or uniqueness theorems appear in the text. The central claims rest on described external evaluations rather than reducing to definitions, ansatzes, or self-referential inputs by construction, rendering the presentation self-contained.

Axiom & Free-Parameter Ledger

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The central claim rests on the introduction of the ZORO system and the standard HCI assumption that user studies and technical benchmarks validly demonstrate behavioral and adherence improvements.

axioms (1)
  • domain assumption User studies and technical evaluations in HCI reliably capture changes in rule adherence and cognitive strategies.
    The reported results depend on this standard assumption in the field for interpreting the evaluations.
invented entities (1)
  • ZORO interface no independent evidence
    purpose: To transform passive rules into active controls integrated with coding agents
    ZORO is a newly introduced system whose benefits are claimed without external prior validation in the abstract.

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    Only after required rule evidence is submitted, call`zoro update-step <step-id> completed`. ## Hard Stops - Do not mark a step`completed`before required`zoro prove-rule`calls. - Do not start the next step while the current step is incomplete. - If evidence is missing or weak, remain on the current step and add better proof. ## Evidence Guidance (Concise) ...

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