arxivcs.AI2026-07-21
CodeRescue: Budget-Calibrated Recovery Routing for Coding Agents
Qijia He, Jiayi Cheng, Chenqian Le, Rui Wang, Xunmei Liu, Yixian Chen, et al.
Coding agents increasingly operate in executable environments where a failed attempt produces actionable feedback rather than merely an incorrect answer. Existing cost-aware systems typically treat such failures as cascade decisions: try a cheap model first, then escalate hard ca…