Knowledge-Based Pull Requests: A Trusted Workflow for Agent-Mediated Knowledge Collaboration (opens in new tab)

AI coding agents are changing the bottleneck in software collaboration: code is increasingly cheap, while understanding intent, negotiating scope, and governing long-term project responsibility remain costly. This paper proposes \emph{Knowledge-Based Pull Requests} (KPR), a trusted workflow for agent-mediated software collaboration across trust boundaries, including open source, enterprise, vendor, contractor, and customer-driven settings. In ...