Handoff Debt: The Rediscovery Cost When Coding Agents Take Over Interrupted Tasks

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arXiv:2606.02875v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Coding-agent benchmarks evaluate whether a single uninterrupted agent can resolve a repository issue. Real software work is messier: tasks are interrupted, reassigned, reviewed, and resumed from partial states left by another agent or engineer. We study this missing dimension through \emph{handoff debt}: the rediscovery cost imposed when a predecessor's work is opaque or incomplete. Our takeover protocol interrupts a coding agent at deterministic