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Chuan Zou, Yujun Zhou, Xiaonan Luo, Xiangliang Zhang

StateHarness is a runtime that carries project records and a compact working brief into later coding decisions, including hypotheses, findings, affected-file candidates, and unfinished checks. Against Claude Code, it raises RefactorBench cleanup-check accuracy from 87.0% to 95.4%, while ChainSWE issue resolution rises from 35.1% to 39.5%. However, ChainSWE pass-to-pass regressions also increase from 16 to 23.

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