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SWE-Together: Evaluating Coding Agents in Interactive User Sessions

arXiv 2606.29957 ↗First posted 29 Jun 2026cs.AI cs.CL cs.SEcited by 18

On the map: LLM agents and tool use → Software engineering coding agents

Abstract (arXiv)

Most coding-agent benchmarks are static: an agent receives a complete task description up front and is judged only by its final code. Real coding assistance is interactive, with users clarifying goals, adding constraints, and correcting mistakes over multiple turns. We introduce SWE-Together, a multi-turn benchmark reconstructed from real user-agent coding sessions. To make real interactions verifiable, we curate 109 repository-level tasks from 11,260 recorded sessions, selecting sessions with recoverable repository states, clear user goals, and observable outcomes. To replay these interactions across agents, we build a reactive LLM-based user simulator that preserves the original users' intents and provides feedback when the coding agent's progress requires it. To evaluate agents as collaborators, we measure both final repository correctness and the number of corrective feedback turns required during the interaction. Experiments with frontier coding agents show that stronger agents generally achieve higher final success rates while requiring fewer interventions, suggesting an improved user experience.

Key facts. Cited by 18 papers in the map (data through 14 Oct 2026). Placed in Software engineering coding agents, one of 16 directions in LLM agents and tool use. Builds on 21 of its 30 references that are in the map. First posted on arXiv 29 Jun 2026.

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21 of 30 references.

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  1. 2026SWE-chat: Coding Agent Interactions From Real Users in the Wild22 Apr
  2. 2025Saving SWE-Bench: A Benchmark Mutation Approach for Realistic Agent Evaluation10 Oct
  3. 2025SWE-smith: Scaling Data for Software Engineering Agents30 Apr

Other references · 18

  1. 2021Evaluating Large Language Models Trained on Codecited by 8,320
  2. 2021Program Synthesis with Large Language Modelscited by 3,637
  3. 2023SWE-bench: Can Language Models Resolve Real-World GitHub Issues?cited by 3,373
  4. 2026Terminal-Bench: Benchmarking Agents on Hard, Realistic Tasks in Command Line Interfacescited by 585
  5. 2024BigCodeBench: Benchmarking Code Generation with Diverse Function Calls and Complex Instructionscited by 546
  6. 2023MINT: Evaluating LLMs in Multi-turn Interaction with Tools and Language Feedbackcited by 297
  7. 2025CollabLLM: From Passive Responders to Active Collaboratorscited by 124
  8. 2025SWE-bench Goes Live!cited by 80
  9. 2025RECODE-H: A Benchmark for Research Code Development with Interactive Human Feedbackcited by 25
  10. 2025When Benchmarks Talk: Re-Evaluating Code LLMs with Interactive Feedbackcited by 16
  11. 2025ConvCodeWorld: Benchmarking Conversational Code Generation in Reproducible Feedback Environmentscited by 14
  12. 2025FronTalk: Benchmarking Front-End Development as Conversational Code Generation with Multi-Modal Feedbackcited by 14
6 more
  1. 2025EDIT-Bench: Evaluating LLM Abilities to Perform Real-World Instructed Code Editscited by 13
  2. 2026Quantifying the Utility of User Simulators for Building Collaborative LLM Assistantscited by 10
  3. 2025FunReason-MT Technical Report: Advanced Data Synthesis Solution for Real-world Multi-Turn Tool-usecited by 9
  4. 2025Developer-LLM Conversations: An Empirical Study of Interactions and Generated Code Qualitycited by 6
  5. 2025BigCodeArena: Unveiling More Reliable Human Preferences in Code Generation via Executioncited by 6
  6. 2025Decoding Human-LLM Collaboration in Coding: An Empirical Study of Multi-Turn Conversations in the Wildcited by 2

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  1. 2026GameXpert-Bench: How Far Are Coding Agents from Expert Game Development?cited by 8
  2. 2026Terminal-Universe: Turning Agent Trajectories into Scalable Terminal Environmentscited by 8
  3. 2026Learning Generalizable Behaviors for Terminal Agentscited by 2
  4. 2026CORAL: An LLM-Native Harness for Production Recommender Systemscited by 2
  5. 2026Do Personalized Skills Help Coding Agents? An Empirical Study of Developer Interaction Historiescited by 1
  6. 2026ProgramDistill: From Interactive Web Apps to Verifiable Reference-Guided SWE Taskscited by 0
  7. 2026RepoMAS: Solving Progressively Specified Tasks with Issue-Driven Multi-Agent Systemscited by 0
  8. 2026AsynCodeBench: Benchmarking Collaboration of Asynchronous Multi-Agent Systems in Software Engineeringcited by 0
  9. 2026TraceDance: An Automated System for Building Agent Behavior Benchmarks from Real-World Agent Deployment Tracescited by 0
  10. 2026Asking for What Was Never Requested: Horizontal and Vertical Proactivity in Agentscited by 0
  11. 2026Zero2Repo: Can Coding Agents Build Repositories from Scratch?cited by 0
  12. 2026Persistent Context Graphs for Efficient Memory Compaction in LLM Agentscited by 0
6 more
  1. 2026Coding-Agent Benchmarks Should Match Their Users' Task Flowscited by 0
  2. 2026SWE-Journey: Towards More Realistic Evaluation of Coding Assistants through Long-Horizon, Multi-Turn Interactioncited by 0
  3. 2026ProgramGym: Scaling Training Environments for Long-Horizon Program Reproduction Agentscited by 0
  4. 2026Cortex: Measurement-Gated Evolution and Pruning of Coding-Agent Skills and Rulescited by 0
  5. 2026EvoWeb: A Benchmark for Coding Agents on Evolving Web Applicationscited by 0
  6. 2026Instructions Are Evidence, Not Objectives: Measuring Outcome Alignment of Agentscited by 0

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  1. 2026SWE-INTERACT: Reimagining SWE Benchmarks as User-Driven Long-Horizon Coding Sessions
  2. 2026SWE-Touch: Benchmarking Coding Agents When Users Touch the Code
  3. 2026EvoCode-Bench: Evaluating Coding Agents in Multi-Turn Iterative Interactions
  4. 2026Humans are Missing from AI Coding Agent Research
  5. 2026Dialogue SWE-Bench: A Benchmark for Dialogue-Driven Coding Agents
  6. 2026SWE-Duel: Towards a Self-Scaling Arena for Coding Agents
  7. 2026Interaction-as-a-Judge
  8. 2026RealSWE: A Compositional Evaluation of Coding Agents under Realistic User Requests