CodeHealth Predicts the Token Cost of Agentic Code Review: A Pre-Registered Study of 465 Agent-Authored Pull Requests
arXiv:2610.21914v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Context: Organizations increasingly delegate code review to multi-agent large language model (LLM) pipelines billed per token. Low code quality raises human maintenance effort, but its effect on agent review cost has not been measured. Objective: We test whether baseline CodeHealth predicts the token cost of agentic review and fix beyond pull request (PR) footprint. Method: In a pre-registered observational study, we sampled 465 agent-authored P…