Can Agents Design Libraries for Agents?
Quick summary
arXiv:2609.36730v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Agents increasingly build on code written by other agents, and they reimplement rather than reuse, growing the codebases later agents must work in. To measure how well agents design libraries for other agents, we introduce LibraryDesignBench, a two-phase benchmark in which an agent implements a full-featured library from a specification that defines required capabilities and potential use cases without prescribing the design. We evaluate the library through the correctness and simplicity of programs written by three user agents from different mod
Key takeaways
- arXiv:2609.36730v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Agents increasingly build on code written by other agents, and they reimplement rather than reuse, growing the codebases later agents must work in.
- To measure how well agents design libraries for other agents, we introduce LibraryDesignBench, a two-phase benchmark in which an agent implements a full-featured library from a specification that defines required capabilities and potential use cases without prescribing the design.
- We evaluate the library through the correctness and simplicity of programs written by three user agents from different mod
Why it matters
The value of this work lies as much in how it was tested as in the claim itself. Sample design, baselines, uncertainty and replication help separate a laboratory result from real-world impact.
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