Autonomous Issue Resolver: Towards Zero-Touch Code Maintenance
About
Recent advances in Large Language Models have revolutionized function-level code generation; however, repository-scale Automated Program Repair (APR) remains a significant challenge. Current approaches typically employ a control-centric paradigm, forcing agents to navigate complex directory structures and irrelevant control logic. In this paper, we propose a paradigm shift from the standard Code Property Graphs (CPGs) to the concept of Data Transformation Graph (DTG) that inverts the topology by modeling data states as nodes and functions as edges, enabling agents to trace logic defects through data lineage rather than control flow. We introduce a multi-agent framework that reconciles data integrity navigation with control flow logic. Our theoretical analysis and case studies demonstrate that this approach resolves the "Semantic Trap" inherent in standard RAG systems in modern coding agents. We provide a comprehensive implementation in the form of Autonomous Issue Resolver (AIR), a self-improvement system for zero-touch code maintenance that utilizes neuro-symbolic reasoning and uses the DTG structure for scalable logic repair. Our approach has demonstrated good results on several SWE benchmarks, reaching a resolution rate of 87.1% on SWE-Verified benchmark. Our approach directly addresses the core limitations of current AI code-assistant tools and tackles the critical need for a more robust foundation for our increasingly software-dependent world.
Related benchmarks
| Task | Dataset | Result | Rank | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Automated Software Engineering | SWE-bench Verified | Resolved Rate87.1 | 39 | |
| Software Engineering Issue Resolution | SWE-Bench Lite | Resolution Rate73.5 | 16 | |
| Code Bug Fixing | HumanEvalFix | -- | 9 | |
| Automated Program Repair | 10 projects (100 total issues) | Total Solved Issues70 | 3 | |
| Issue Resolution | jsonpickle GitHub Issues OSS repo (10 randomly selected) | Issues Resolved9 | 3 | |
| Issue Resolution | arrow-py OSS GitHub repo (10 randomly selected issues) | Issues Resolved6 | 3 | |
| Issue Resolution | fashtext GitHub Issues OSS repo (10 randomly selected) | Issues Resolved8 | 3 | |
| Issue Resolution | requests GitHub Issues OSS GitHub repo (10 randomly selected issues) | Resolved Issues8 | 3 | |
| Issue Resolution | poetry GitHub Issues OSS repo (10 randomly selected) | Issues Resolved4 | 3 | |
| Issue Resolution | Pillow GitHub Issues OSS repo (10 randomly selected) | Issues Resolved4 | 3 |