# Back Up Before You Regret: Measuring Backup Awareness and Automating Backup in Coding Agents

**Published:** October 22, 2026
**Author:** Xu Li, Simon Yu, Minzhou Pan, Yiyou Sun, Zhaorun Chen, Bo Li, Weiyan Shi
**Source:** arXiv — cs.AI
**Language:** en-US
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arXiv:2610.28934v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Coding agents now complete tasks autonomously, modifying real-world state such as artifacts, software environments, and configurations along the way. Yet they show limited backup awareness: recognizing that an action will modify…

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