Travis Desell

When Does Restricting a Coding Agent to execute_code Help? A Regime $\times$ Agent-Design Ablation

Hong Yang, Qi Yu, Travis Desell

Modern coding agents expose multiple tool surfaces -- IDE primitives, bash, and Model Context Protocol (MCP) code-execution -- and the field has shipped three contradictory claims about which one matters. We run the missing crossed comparison: an integrity-clean three-arm ablatio…Read more