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Kat-Coder-v2.5 Technical Report (Qwen3.6-35B-A3B base for post-training) (arxiv.org)
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In plain words: A coding agent trained inside runnable code repositories: projects are rebuilt into safe sandboxes with automatic pass/fail checks, so it can practice and learn from its successes. It topped a tool-use benchmark and came second only to a frontier model at fixing codebases.

Abstract · KAT-Coder-V2.5 Technical Report

We present KAT-Coder-V2.5, a coding-focused agentic model trained to act autonomously inside real, executable repositories rather than as a single-turn code generator. Its capability is bottlenecked less by model scale than by the scarcity of reproducible environments, verifiable rewards, and high-value trajectories, which we address with an end-to-end agentic post-training framework. AutoBuilder reconstructs multilingual repositories into sandboxed environments with fail-to-pass and pass-to-pass verification at scale, from which we regenerate self-contained task specifications, recover near-miss trajectories, and distill supervision through process-aware filtering, while KwaiClawEnv synthesizes large-scale tool-use trajectories from executable services and real task seeds. We further scale reinforcement learning with harness randomization, a reliability-hardened sandbox, an asymmetric actor--critic PPO with hindsight-augmented value estimation, and a harness-oriented reward framework, and unify SWE, Agent-Claw, and WebCoding experts via Multi-Teacher On-Policy Distillation. Across six software-engineering and agentic benchmarks, KAT-Coder-V2.5 delivers the best agentic tool-use result on PinchBench and ranks second only to the frontier Opus 4.8 on repository-level software engineering. Our service is available at https://streamlake.com/product/kat-coder.

Bo Huang, Fengxiang Li, Hao Xu, Haoyang Huang, Hongyi Fu, Jinhua Hao, Kun Yuan, Minglei Zhang, Pengcheng Xu, Shiyang Liu, Wenhao Zhuang, Yuze Shi, et al.
arXiv:2607.05471 · cs.SE, cs.AI · submitted Jul 6, 2026
abstract · pdf · html · 24 pages, 5 figures

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