Great paper from Google on program repair agents inside CI.

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They propose FlowAgent, which runs a ReAct-style generate-and-validate loop on pre-submit test failures and shows the fix inside Google's code review tools.

Two abstention filters decide whether a fix is worth showing. One runs before execution and one after, so weak suggestions never reach the developer.

In a manual review of 195 real failures, 67.18% of its fixes were correct.

After the Google-wide launch, it suggested fixes on 295,508 changes. Developers previewed 65,069 and applied 28,554.

Paper: https://arxiv.org/abs/2610.07289

Chat with Paper: https://academy.dair.ai/papers/catching-developers-in-the-flow-low-latency-agentic-program-repair-at-google-sca-2610.07289