RefactorPlatform: An Open-Source Harness for Controlled Evaluation of Repository-Scale Refactoring Agents
2026-09-07 12:00Science🔥 42.2 heat score
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On September 7, 2026, arXiv released an open-source evaluation tool called RefactorPlatform, designed to provide a isolated testing environment for code agents in cross-file refactoring tasks. This platform supports isolated runtime of workspaces, real-time terminal stream monitoring, AST validation, and telemetry data export, ensuring the reproducibility and auditability of evaluations. In the 100 multi-file task tests included in RefactorBench, the block-based strategy based on the abstract syntax tree (AST) achieved 25% to 30% better performance than the naive block-based approach; while the retrieval enhancement mode increased token overhead, it kept the unit refactoring cost unchanged; moreover, lightweight single-agent configurations were more performant than sub-agent configurations.