SWE-Touch: Benchmarking Coding Agents When Users Touch the Code

arXiv:2608.02499 · cs.SE, cs.AI, cs.CL · Submitted 2026-08-03 · Read on arXiv

Yuqiao Tan, Jinxiang Meng, Fangyu Lei, Minzheng Wang, Shizhu He, Jun Zhao, Kang Liu

cs.SE, cs.AI, cs.CL

Submitted: 2026-08-03

Comments: Preprint. Our code is available at https://github.com/Trae1ounG/SWE-Touch

Code: https://github.com/Trae1ounG/SWE-Touch

License: http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/

Terminology

• Benchmarking — 46× in this paper · explained in 4 episodes
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• Verifier — 27× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Generator — 13× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Verification — 8× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Robustness — 6× in this paper · explained in 5 episodes
• Ablation — 4× in this paper · explained in 1 episode
• Introspection — 4× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Core — 3× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Ablation Studies — 2× in this paper · explained in 1 episode
• Harness — 2× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• AI Agents — 1× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Agent Harness — 1× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Agentic Coding — 1× in this paper · explained in 1 episode
• Redundancy — 1× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Trace — 1× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes

Sources

• How can we assess human-agent interactions? Case studies in software agent design
• SWE-smith: Scaling Data for Software Engineering Agents

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