arxivcs.SE2026-07-30
Preventing Premature Commitment in Coding Agents with an Evidence-Conditioned Execution Layer
Yisen Xu, Chenglin Li, Zehao Wang, Jinqiu Yang, Tse-Hsun Chen
LLM-based coding agents often edit source code or submit patches before examining enough repository evidence to justify the change, a failure pattern we call premature commitment. We present ECLoop, an execution layer that interposes between the agent and the repository to enforc…