arXiv — cs.AI preprintsInternational15 October 2026
Cortex: Measurement-Gated Evolution and Pruning of Coding-Agent Skills and Rules
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arXiv:2610.14216v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Coding agents such as Claude Code also follow text files that developers write for them: a project file, skills the agent may choose to open, and rules that load automatically when the agent reads matching files. We call these files the agent's harness. Developers add to it whenever they correct the agent, but one success proves little: the same agent can pass a task once and fail it the next time. We present Cortex, a tool that tests changes to the harness instead of trusting them. It saves fixes from the developer's sessions as replayable tas
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