Co-Modifying Application Code and Deployment Infrastructure: A Causal Study of AI Agent Pull Requests
arXiv:2610.12849v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Current software engineering agents are evaluated predominantly inside isolated sandboxes against synchronous local tests. However, deploying features in collaborative repositories requires modifying continuous integration (CI/CD) pipelines, containers, and provisioning manifests alongside application logic. Because agents lack deployment awareness, attempting cross-domain modifications introduces unverified dependencies into asynchronous integr…