Paul Gauthier

• RepoTrace: Improving Requirement Tracing in Multi-Round Agent InteractionsVerdict: Incremental

  Oct 26, 2026 · Creator of Aider, whose repo-map technique RepoTrace's structural weighting resembles.

• Rivet: Utility-Preserving Context Control for Repository-Level Coding AgentsVerdict: Useful

  Oct 26, 2026 · Creator of Aider's repo map, the closest practitioner analogue to Rivet.

• NameTrap: Steering AI Coding Agents Toward Security Vulnerabilities via Variable NamesVerdict: Useful

  Oct 25, 2026 · Creator of Aider, the agent with the highest attack success rate.

• ProductWebBench: Evaluating Website Continuity Beyond Task CompletionVerdict: Important

  Oct 22, 2026 · Creator of Aider, an evaluated scaffold.

• Compaction Laundering: Provenance Destruction in Context-Compacting Coding AgentsVerdict: Important

  Oct 21, 2026 · Creator of Aider, an affected harness.

• Recursive Self-Improvement on a Budget: Scoring Code Edits Before They RunVerdict: Weak

  Oct 21, 2026 · Author of the cited Aider Polyglot leaderboard used for evaluation.

1. github.com/paul-gauthier
2. github.com/Aider-AI/aider
3. aider.chat

Verified Oct 29, 2026