Coding agents exhibit action bias by proposing undesirable changes on already-fixed issues 35-65% of the time, and explicit reproduction instructions only partially mitigate this while creating new abstention errors.
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Coding Agents Don't Know When to Act
Coding agents exhibit action bias by proposing undesirable changes on already-fixed issues 35-65% of the time, and explicit reproduction instructions only partially mitigate this while creating new abstention errors.