ProjAgent Retrieves by Procedural Similarity, Not Lexical or Semantic Match

arXiv·medium signal

Repository-level code generation requires honoring cross-file dependencies and project conventions, but existing retrieval relies on lexical, structural, or semantic similarity — which misses repository functions implementing the same procedural logic under different identifiers or in a different application domain. ProjAgent (arXiv 2607.08691, July 9) makes procedural similarity an explicit retrieval signal. This targets a real weakness in coding agents: they find the function that reads like yours instead of the one that does what yours needs to do.