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Kozuchi Agent: A Language-Agnostic Open-Weight Agent for Software Repair

arXiv 2608.15579 ↗First posted 16 Aug 2026cs.SE cs.AI cs.ETcited by 0

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Abstract (arXiv)

Industrial software-engineering teams increasingly need LLM agents that turn bug reports into correct patches, yet benchmark-scale operation adds long horizons, tool-use discipline, context persistence, heterogeneous clusters, and evaluation reuse. We present Kozuchi Agent, a language-agnostic open-weight repair agent and CI-operated evaluation pipeline. Explicit phases, persistent state, deterministic tools, a model-independent action interface, and cross-agent test-time selection make runs auditable and repeatable. With locally hosted Qwen3.5-27B, no fine-tuning, and TTS@8, Kozuchi resolves 374/500 SWE-bench Verified instances on the official evaluator. Unchanged on Multi-SWE-bench Java, the same 27-billion-parameter agent resolves 41/128 instances (32.03%), ranking first among strict open-weight submissions and fourth of 42 overall; on Python it ranks 12th of 135 and first among open-weight systems. Per-phase behavior remains within +/-5 percentage points across languages. Remaining failures mainly reflect semantic correctness, Java-specific harness issues, and selection errors. Across both tracks, results compare favorably with open/local peers by parameter count. Analysis of candidate diversity, selector regret, and patch reliability shows that the remaining gap is primarily semantic correctness and selection rather than edit formatting or proprietary-model access. Operationally, reusable CI stages reduce operator touch-points from five to one across heterogeneous internal clusters.

Key facts. No citing papers in the map yet (data through 7 Oct 2026). Placed in Software engineering coding agents, one of 16 directions in LLM agents and tool use. Builds on 12 of its 49 references that are in the map. First posted on arXiv 16 Aug 2026.

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