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title: "Dissecting Repository-Scale Code-Agent Harnesses: Retrieval, Context, and Action Interfaces Under Model-in-the-Loop Evaluation"
authors:
  - family-names: Sidhu
    given-names: Mandeep
version: "1.0.0-preprint"
date-released: "2026-07-21"
doi: "10.5281/zenodo.21781711"
url: "https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.21781711"
repository-code: "https://huggingface.co/cuber12/agent-harness"
license: MIT
keywords:
  - code-agents
  - repository-retrieval
  - large-language-models
  - software-engineering
  - empirical-evaluation
  - reproducibility
preferred-citation:
  type: article
  title: "Dissecting Repository-Scale Code-Agent Harnesses: Retrieval, Context, and Action Interfaces Under Model-in-the-Loop Evaluation"
  authors:
    - family-names: Sidhu
      given-names: Mandeep
  year: 2026
  doi: "10.5281/zenodo.21781711"
  url: "https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.21781711"
  notes: "Preprint prepared for archival on Zenodo under the reserved DOI."