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When Does Restricting a Coding Agent to execute_code Help? A Regime $\times$ Age

Modern coding agents expose multiple tool surfaces -- IDE primitives, bash, and Model Context Protocol (MCP) code-execution -- and the field has shipped three contradictory claims about which one matters. We run the missing crossed comparis

https://arxiv.org/abs/2607.10569v1 ↗
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