Sequential Web Nudges: Out-of-Band Verification Protects Weak Local Coding Agents

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Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research)
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2026-09-21
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https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.22873325
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Scientific Computing and Data Management
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Sequential Web Nudges: Out-of-Band Verification Protects Weak Local Coding Agents

Brutchsama Jean-Louis
Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research)
Scientific Computing and Data Management
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Sequential Web Nudges: Out-of-Band Verification Protects Weak Local Coding Agents

Brutchsama Jean-Louis
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Abstract

Small local models (4B/3B active) code confidently against wrong remembered defaults — until given a deterministic trust-shape detector + a sequential research_dispatch tool that spawns a fresh same-weight "librarian" that browses live docs and returns a compact evidence artifact. In a controlled ablation across two trap tasks (documented API defaults), the weakest local model fails to complete without the mechanism (timeout, no artifact) but succeeds perfectly with it (DQ 1.0, all defaults correct, green test). A stronger 27B model is robust regardless. The mechanism's signature is not raw doc access (the control reads local READMEs) but auditable verification before code and guaranteed completion for weak weights. All verification happens out-of-band: the parent context gains one tool call and one compact result.

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