aiqbench analysis
ContextSniper addresses the critical bottleneck of context window consumption in LLM-based software repair agents by implementing precision evidence selection mechanisms. By filtering irrelevant code and logs through hybrid ranking and intention-aware gating, it significantly reduces token usage without compromising resolution rates on benchmark tasks like SWE-bench Lite. This advancement offers a practical pathway to scaling autonomous coding assistants while managing operational costs effectively.
ContextSniper: AntTrail's Token-Efficient Code Memory for Repository-Level Program Repair
arXiv:2607.01916v5 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Large language model agents can repair real repository issues, but they often spend large context budgets on whole-file reads, broad searches, and long terminal outputs where useful evidence is mixed with irrelevant code and logs. This paper presents ContextSniper, AntTrail's code-repair module for precision evidence selection in repository-level program repair, part of AntTrail's broader agent-memory engine. AntTrail is available at https://gitcode.com/datagallery/AntTrail. ContextSniper indexes code and action memory as three abstract levels, retrieves candidates with a hybrid ranker, filters long tool output through an intention-aware context gate, and returns compact evidence packets while keeping full source recoverable on demand. In a matched 50-task-per-condition comparison on SWE-bench Lite (same tasks, baseline vs.\ ContextSniper), ContextSniper reduces total token use by 51.5% and logged cost by 36.4% for OpenClaw, and by 38.9% and 27.3% for Claude Code, with submitted-resolution rates essentially unchanged in both host-agent settings. In a separate five-task comparison, ContextSniper beats existing memory- and RAG-style integrations on token efficiency. These results suggest ContextSniper can substantially cut token and cost overhead for repository-level repair agents without a measurable loss in repair quality. The evaluation harness for this study is available at https://gitcode.com/lukchiwang/ContextSniper.
Abstract:Large language model agents can repair real repository issues, but they often spend large context budgets on whole-file reads, broad searches, and long terminal outputs where useful evidence is mixed with irrelevant code and logs. This paper presents ContextSniper, AntTrail's code-repair module for precision evidence selection in repository-level program repair, part of AntTrail's broader agent-memory engine. AntTrail is available at this https URL. ContextSniper indexes code and action memory as three abstract levels, retrieves candidates with a hybrid ranker, filters long tool output through an intention-aware context gate, and returns compact evidence packets while keeping full source recoverable on demand. In a matched 50-task-per-condition comparison on SWE-bench Lite (same tasks, baseline vs.\ ContextSniper), ContextSniper reduces total token use by 51.5% and logged cost by 36.4% for OpenClaw, and by 38.9% and 27.3% for Claude Code, with submitted-resolution rates essentially unchanged in both host-agent settings. In a separate five-task comparison, ContextSniper beats existing memory- and RAG-style integrations on token efficiency. These results suggest ContextSniper can substantially cut token and cost overhead for repository-level repair agents without a measurable loss in repair quality. The evaluation harness for this study is available at this https URL.
Artificial Intelligence (cs.AI)
arXiv:2607.01916 [cs.AI]
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