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arxiv: 2606.18976 · v1 · pith:D53RPZBXnew · submitted 2026-06-17 · 💻 cs.SE · cs.AI

CAPRA: Scaling Feedback on Software Architecture Deliverables with a Multi-Agent LLM System

Marco Becattini , Niccol\`o Caselli , Matteo Minin , Roberto Verdecchia , Enrico Vicario This is my paper

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keywords software architecture assessmentmulti-agent LLMautomated educational feedbackrequirements traceabilityhallucination mitigationdocument extractionLaTeX report generation
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CAPRA uses multiple LLM agents plus fuzzy evidence matching to generate reliable feedback on student software architecture reports.

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The paper presents CAPRA as a multi-agent system that extracts text and diagrams from architecture deliverables, checks structural completeness and requirements traceability, then produces personalized LaTeX feedback. It adds a deterministic Evidence Anchoring step and a ConsistencyManager agent to limit hallucinations and keep output grounded in the submitted document. A test on ten student reports found the system met 88.8 percent of eight binary criteria under strict two-rater rules, reached moderate agreement with human evaluators, and finished each report in slightly over four minutes. The authors argue this shows automated architectural feedback is now feasible in education, though human review is still required for subjective judgments.

Core claim

CAPRA coordinates specialized agents with a Python microservice for multi-modal extraction and applies Evidence Anchoring via normalized Levenshtein fuzzy matching together with a ConsistencyManager that cross-verifies and deduplicates findings, allowing the system to produce template-compliant feedback while satisfying 88.8 percent of evaluation criteria on ten student reports and achieving kappa 0.582 agreement with human raters.

What carries the argument

The Evidence Anchoring step using fuzzy matching via normalized Levenshtein distance together with the ConsistencyManager agent that cross-verifies, deduplicates, and merges agent findings.

If this is right

  • Each report can be processed in slightly over four minutes without manual extraction of text or diagrams.
  • Feedback meets 88.8 percent of the eight-criterion taxonomy under strict aggregation.
  • Moderate inter-rater agreement (kappa 0.582) is reached with human evaluators on the same reports.
  • Template and tone compliance can be enforced while still flagging specific traceability and completeness issues.

Where Pith is reading between the lines

These are editorial extensions of the paper, not claims the author makes directly.

  • The same anchoring-plus-consistency pattern could be tested on other document types such as requirements specifications or design documents.
  • Processing time and criterion scores might change if the underlying vision model or fuzzy-matching threshold is altered.
  • The current eight-criterion taxonomy could be expanded to include additional dimensions such as diagram clarity or notation consistency.

Load-bearing premise

The Evidence Anchoring step and ConsistencyManager will reliably prevent hallucinations and produce educationally accurate feedback on structural completeness and requirements traceability for varied student submissions.

What would settle it

Running the system on a new set of at least 30 architecture reports from a different course or institution and measuring whether the strict two-rater criterion satisfaction rate stays above 80 percent or drops due to missed issues or unsupported claims.

Figures

Figures reproduced from arXiv: 2606.18976 by Enrico Vicario, Marco Becattini, Matteo Minin, Niccol\`o Caselli, Roberto Verdecchia.

Figure 1
Figure 1. Figure 1: CAPRA system architecture: four-stage pipeline from PDF ingestion (Docu￾ment Parsing), through parallel multi-agent evaluation (Verification Agents), evidence￾anchored deduplication (Evidence Anchoring), to final report generation (Report Gen￾eration) [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p004_1.png] view at source ↗
Figure 2
Figure 2. Figure 2: LLM Compactor: Similar features within a cluster (e.g., “UI mockups for interfaces”, “Navigation menu design”, “Input validation forms”) are merged by an LLM into a single canonical Summary Feature with a structured checklist used by the FeatureCheckAgent. 3.3 Evidence Anchoring and Deduplication Input: The collection of raw analytical findings. Output: A verified, evidence-backed set of architectural crit… view at source ↗
Figure 3
Figure 3. Figure 3: Confidence modulation function: the multiplier applied to the initial confidence score Ci as a function of the similarity score S. PDF report. By relying on deterministic LATEX templates rather than generating the entire document via LLM, CAPRA ensures that the compilation process is significantly faster, cheaper (due to drastically reduced token usage), and free of formatting errors. The system combines t… view at source ↗
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Automated assessment in software engineering education has advanced significantly for code grading and essay scoring. However, reviewing software architecture deliverables, which requires analyzing structural completeness and requirements traceability, has not yet been fully automated. Applying Large Language Models (LLMs) to this task requires robust architectures to ensure technical feedback is accurate and reliable for students. This paper presents CAPRA (Configurable Architecture Proficiency Report Assessment), a multi-agent LLM system that analyzes software architecture deliverables to generate personalized, template-compliant LaTeX feedback. As a core design choice, CAPRA coordinates multiple specialized agents and employs a Python-based microservice for multi-modal document extraction, utilizing PyMuPDF and vision-enabled LLMs (specifically gpt-4o) to parse text and UML diagrams. To ensure educational reliability and mitigate hallucinations, CAPRA introduces a deterministic Evidence Anchoring step using fuzzy matching via normalized Levenshtein distance, along with a ConsistencyManager agent that cross-verifies, deduplicates, and merges findings. System performance is assessed using a structured eight-criterion binary evaluation taxonomy covering: (i) extraction completeness, (ii) feature validation, (iii) issue grounding and severity detection, (iv) recommendation specificity and traceability, and (v) template and tone compliance. A preliminary empirical evaluation on 10 student reports shows that CAPRA satisfied 88.8% of the evaluated criteria under a strict two-rater aggregation rule, achieved moderate inter-rater agreement with human evaluators (kappa = 0.582), and processed each report in slightly over 4 minutes. While these results support the viability of LLM-supported architectural feedback, human oversight remains essential for subjective assessment dimensions.

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Referee Report

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Summary. The manuscript presents CAPRA, a multi-agent LLM system for automated assessment of software architecture deliverables. It coordinates specialized agents with a Python microservice for multi-modal extraction (PyMuPDF and gpt-4o for text and UML diagrams), employs deterministic Evidence Anchoring via normalized Levenshtein fuzzy matching to ground feedback, and uses a ConsistencyManager agent for cross-verification. Feedback is generated as template-compliant LaTeX. A preliminary evaluation on 10 student reports using an eight-criterion taxonomy reports 88.8% criterion satisfaction under strict two-rater aggregation, moderate inter-rater agreement (kappa=0.582), and average processing time slightly over 4 minutes per report. The authors note that human oversight remains necessary for subjective dimensions.

Significance. If the anchoring and consistency mechanisms prove reliable across varied submissions, the work could meaningfully advance scalable, personalized feedback in software engineering education for complex tasks like structural completeness and requirements traceability. Strengths include the explicit design to mitigate hallucinations through deterministic grounding, the structured multi-agent coordination, and the use of a binary taxonomy for evaluation. These elements provide a concrete engineering contribution. The preliminary scale of the evaluation, however, constrains the immediate significance pending further validation.

major comments (2)
  1. [Methods (Evidence Anchoring)] Methods section (Evidence Anchoring step): The reliability claim rests on normalized Levenshtein fuzzy matching to anchor feedback to source spans and prevent ungrounded judgments. No ablation study, threshold sensitivity analysis, or failure-case examination is reported for paraphrased requirements or non-identical UML descriptions common in student reports. Because the matching is surface-string based, systematic retrieval failures would directly affect downstream severity and traceability outputs and thereby the reported 88.8% success rate.
  2. [Evaluation] Evaluation section: The performance numbers (88.8% criterion satisfaction, kappa=0.582) derive from only 10 reports. The manuscript does not detail the report selection process, the precise operationalization of each of the eight taxonomy criteria, or the full inter-rater data matrix. These omissions make it difficult to assess whether the moderate agreement and high satisfaction rate generalize or are sensitive to rater subjectivity.
minor comments (1)
  1. [Abstract] Abstract: The eight-criterion taxonomy is summarized at a high level; a concise enumerated list or reference to a table in the main text would improve immediate readability.

Simulated Author's Rebuttal

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We thank the referee for the constructive feedback. We agree that greater transparency on the Evidence Anchoring implementation and the evaluation protocol is warranted. We address each major comment below and indicate the revisions we will make.

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  1. Referee: [Methods (Evidence Anchoring)] Methods section (Evidence Anchoring step): The reliability claim rests on normalized Levenshtein fuzzy matching to anchor feedback to source spans and prevent ungrounded judgments. No ablation study, threshold sensitivity analysis, or failure-case examination is reported for paraphrased requirements or non-identical UML descriptions common in student reports. Because the matching is surface-string based, systematic retrieval failures would directly affect downstream severity and traceability outputs and thereby the reported 88.8% success rate.

    Authors: We accept that the current description is insufficient. The normalized Levenshtein threshold (0.75) was chosen to keep anchoring deterministic and independent of additional LLM calls. In the revised manuscript we will add a dedicated paragraph in the Methods section that (a) reports the threshold selection rationale, (b) presents a post-hoc sensitivity check on the 10 reports showing how criterion satisfaction changes at thresholds 0.65–0.85, and (c) enumerates the observed failure modes (primarily paraphrased functional requirements and diagram labels that differ in wording but not semantics). We will also state explicitly that surface-string matching remains a limitation and that embedding-based retrieval is planned for future versions. These additions will allow readers to assess the robustness of the 88.8 % figure without requiring new experiments at this stage. revision: partial

  2. Referee: [Evaluation] Evaluation section: The performance numbers (88.8% criterion satisfaction, kappa=0.582) derive from only 10 reports. The manuscript does not detail the report selection process, the precise operationalization of each of the eight taxonomy criteria, or the full inter-rater data matrix. These omissions make it difficult to assess whether the moderate agreement and high satisfaction rate generalize or are sensitive to rater subjectivity.

    Authors: We agree that additional methodological detail is needed. The revised manuscript will include: (1) a description of the report selection process (random sample of 10 consenting submissions from one undergraduate software architecture course), (2) an appendix that gives the exact operational definition and scoring rubric for each of the eight criteria together with one positive and one negative example per criterion, and (3) the complete per-criterion inter-rater agreement table (or at minimum the raw agreement counts underlying the reported kappa). These changes will improve reproducibility while preserving the explicitly preliminary framing of the evaluation. revision: yes

Circularity Check

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No significant circularity; metrics from independent human evaluation

full rationale

The paper reports empirical metrics (88.8% criterion satisfaction, kappa=0.582) obtained via external human-rater comparison against a fixed eight-criterion taxonomy. These quantities are not derived from or equivalent to any internal system parameters, fitted values, or self-citations. No equations, predictions, or uniqueness claims reduce to inputs by construction. The Evidence Anchoring mechanism is a design choice whose reliability is externally tested rather than tautological. This is the normal case of a self-contained empirical study.

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Abstract-only review provides no explicit free parameters, axioms, or invented entities; the system description relies on standard LLM capabilities, existing libraries (PyMuPDF, gpt-4o), and fuzzy matching without introducing new postulated constructs.

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