Agent skill

Code LLM Papers Guide

by wentorai in wentorai/research-plugins

Survey and paper collection on LLMs for code generation. An agent skill from wentorai/research-plugins.

MITAuto-check passedResearch & Science

Install Code LLM Papers Guide

skills CLI
$ npx skills add wentorai/research-plugins --skill code-llm-papers-guide -a claude-code

Project install by default; add -g for ~/.claude/skills/.

GitHub CLI
$ gh skill install wentorai/research-plugins code-llm-papers-guide --agent claude-code

Project scope by default; add --scope user for a personal install. Needs GitHub CLI 2.90.0 or later (public preview).

Manual copy
$ git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/wentorai/research-plugins.git skills-src && mkdir -p .claude/skills && cp -r skills-src/skills/domains/cs/code-llm-papers-guide .claude/skills/code-llm-papers-guide && rm -rf skills-src

Use ~/.claude/skills/ instead of .claude/skills for a personal install. The folder must contain SKILL.md.

Claude Code skills documentation · loads skills from .claude/skills/

Facts

Skill name
code-llm-papers-guide
GitHub stars
298
Used in
1 other repo
Token cost
~1.1k tokens
SKILL.md length
165 words
Files
1
Skills in repo
428
Repo updated
First seen
Licence
MIT

At a glance

Survey and paper collection on LLMs for code generation. An agent skill from wentorai/research-plugins.

  • Works in 5 steps: Literature survey: Map the Code LLM… → Model selection: Compare code models for… → Benchmark analysis: Track… → …
  • Research & Science work in your project
  • SKILL.md covers Overview, Taxonomy, Key Models Timeline and Benchmark Tracking, plus 4 more sections
  • Instructions only: no scripts, shell commands, URLs or credentials in SKILL.md

What it does

Code LLM Papers Guide is an agent skill from wentorai/research-plugins. Survey and paper collection on LLMs for code generation

Its SKILL.md is about 1.1k tokens, which your agent loads only when the skill is triggered. It is a single SKILL.md file with no bundled scripts.

It sits in Research & Science. The repository describes itself as: 350+ academic research skills, MCP configs, and plugins for Research-Claw and AI agents. The licence is MIT.

When your agent uses it

  • Research & Science work in your project

Example prompts

  • “/code-llm-papers-guide”

Requirements

  • Python 3

Workflow steps

5 steps, taken from the first numbered list in SKILL.md.

  1. Literature survey: Map the Code LLM research landscape
  2. Model selection: Compare code models for specific tasks
  3. Benchmark analysis: Track state-of-the-art on standard benchmarks
  4. Research planning: Identify open problems and trends
  5. Course material: Teach software engineering + AI intersection

What it can do on your machine

Read from SKILL.md and the folder at commit bf44b3c. It shows what the files ask for, not the result of running them.

  • Tool permissions

    Pre-approves nothing: there is no allowed-tools line, so your agent's usual permission prompts apply.

    From allowed-tools in the SKILL.md frontmatter.

  • Runs code

    No scripts in the folder and no shell commands in SKILL.md (its code samples are python and markdown).

    From the folder's file list and the shell code blocks in SKILL.md.

  • Network

    Links to these hosts (documentation or services it may open):

    • github.com
    • arxiv.org
    • swebench.com

    From URLs in SKILL.md, links to its own repository left out.

  • Credentials

    Names no API keys, tokens, secrets or passwords.

    From names ending in _API_KEY, _TOKEN, _SECRET, _KEY or _PASSWORD in SKILL.md.

Context cost

Code LLM Papers Guide loads about 1.1k tokens when it runs. Until then it costs about 19 tokens; SKILL.md has 165 words of instructions outside code blocks.

Always · name and description, kept in context so the agent knows when to use it
~19
When it runs · the whole SKILL.md, loaded when a task matches
~1.1k

Estimates: characters ÷ 4, the usual rule of thumb; real counts depend on the model's tokenizer. Scripts and assets cost tokens only if the agent reads them.

Safety

Auto-check passed

The automated check found no risky patterns in SKILL.md.

Automated static check — not a guarantee. Review scripts before installing. It scans the text of SKILL.md for risky patterns (piping downloads into a shell, reading credential files, hidden Unicode, destructive commands); files beside SKILL.md are not scanned.

SKILL.md

The full file from wentorai/research-plugins at commit bf44b3c, republished under its MIT licence (© wentorai). 165 words, ~1,132 tokens.

Download SKILL.mdSave it as .claude/skills/code-llm-papers-guide/SKILL.md (or your agent's skills folder).
name
code-llm-papers-guide
description
Survey and paper collection on LLMs for code generation

Code LLM Papers Guide

Overview

This curated collection covers LLMs for code — from foundational models (Codex, CodeGen, StarCoder) through code generation, completion, repair, translation, and understanding. Accompanies a TMLR survey paper providing systematic categorization. Tracks 500+ papers across pre-training, fine-tuning, evaluation, and application of code-focused language models.

Taxonomy

Code LLMs
├── Pre-training
│   ├── Encoder-only (CodeBERT, GraphCodeBERT)
│   ├── Decoder-only (Codex, CodeGen, StarCoder, DeepSeek-Coder)
│   └── Encoder-Decoder (CodeT5, PLBART)
├── Fine-tuning & Alignment
│   ├── Instruction tuning (WizardCoder, Magicoder)
│   ├── RLHF for code (CodeRL)
│   └── Self-play (AlphaCode)
├── Applications
│   ├── Code generation (NL → Code)
│   ├── Code completion (infilling)
│   ├── Code repair (bug fixing)
│   ├── Code translation (language conversion)
│   ├── Code summarization (Code → NL)
│   ├── Test generation
│   └── Code review
└── Evaluation
    ├── Benchmarks (HumanEval, MBPP, SWE-bench)
    ├── Metrics (pass@k, CodeBLEU)
    └── Security analysis

Key Models Timeline

ModelYearOrganizationParametersKey Innovation
CodeBERT2020Microsoft125MBimodal NL-PL pre-training
Codex2021OpenAI12BGPT-3 fine-tuned on GitHub
AlphaCode2022DeepMind41BCompetitive programming
StarCoder2023BigCode15BFill-in-the-middle, 1T tokens
CodeLlama2023Meta34BLlama 2 + code specialization
DeepSeek-Coder2024DeepSeek33B2T token project-level training
Qwen2.5-Coder2024Alibaba32B5.5T tokens, multi-language

Benchmark Tracking

python
# Track model performance on HumanEval
humaneval_scores = {
    "GPT-4": {"pass_at_1": 67.0, "pass_at_10": 86.0},
    "Claude 3.5 Sonnet": {"pass_at_1": 64.0},
    "DeepSeek-Coder-33B": {"pass_at_1": 56.1},
    "CodeLlama-34B": {"pass_at_1": 48.8},
    "StarCoder2-15B": {"pass_at_1": 46.3},
    "GPT-3.5-Turbo": {"pass_at_1": 48.1},
}

print(f"{'Model':<25} {'pass@1':>8} {'pass@10':>8}")
print("-" * 43)
for model, scores in sorted(
    humaneval_scores.items(),
    key=lambda x: x[1].get("pass_at_1", 0),
    reverse=True,
):
    p1 = scores.get("pass_at_1", "—")
    p10 = scores.get("pass_at_10", "—")
    print(f"{model:<25} {str(p1):>8} {str(p10):>8}")

Research Directions

markdown
### Active Areas (2024-2025)
1. **Repository-level generation** — Understanding full codebases
2. **Agentic coding** — LLMs using tools (debugger, terminal)
3. **Formal verification** — Proving correctness of generated code
4. **Multi-language** — Cross-language transfer and translation
5. **Security** — Detecting and avoiding vulnerable code
6. **Long context** — Processing large codebases (100k+ tokens)
7. **Code editing** — Natural language instructions for code changes
python
import arxiv

def find_code_llm_papers(topic="code generation", max_results=20):
    """Find recent Code LLM papers on arXiv."""
    query = f"abs:{topic} AND (abs:large language model OR abs:LLM)"

    search = arxiv.Search(
        query=query,
        max_results=max_results,
        sort_by=arxiv.SortCriterion.SubmittedDate,
    )

    for result in search.results():
        print(f"[{result.published.strftime('%Y-%m-%d')}] "
              f"{result.title}")

find_code_llm_papers("code generation")
find_code_llm_papers("automated program repair")

Use Cases

  1. Literature survey: Map the Code LLM research landscape
  2. Model selection: Compare code models for specific tasks
  3. Benchmark analysis: Track state-of-the-art on standard benchmarks
  4. Research planning: Identify open problems and trends
  5. Course material: Teach software engineering + AI intersection

References

© wentorai, MIT. Rendered from Markdown: HTML in the file is shown as text, images as links, and headings moved down two levels. Raw file

Files

Just SKILL.md in skills/domains/cs/code-llm-papers-guide of wentorai/research-plugins.

Open the folder on GitHubat commit bf44b3c

Used in 1 other repository

We found 1 copy of this SKILL.md (exact, near-identical or edited) in other folders, from 1 other GitHub owner. This page covers the copy in wentorai/research-plugins, which our catalogue first saw on October 7, 2026.

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Questions about Code LLM Papers Guide

What does Code LLM Papers Guide do?

Survey and paper collection on LLMs for code generation. An agent skill from wentorai/research-plugins. Code LLM Papers Guide is an agent skill from wentorai/research-plugins.

When should I use Code LLM Papers Guide?

Code LLM Papers Guide fits situations like: research & Science work in your project.

How do I install Code LLM Papers Guide in Claude Code?

Run `npx skills add wentorai/research-plugins --skill code-llm-papers-guide -a claude-code`. Or copy the skill folder (skills/domains/cs/code-llm-papers-guide in wentorai/research-plugins) into .claude/skills/code-llm-papers-guide in your project. Claude Code loads it when a task matches its description.

How do I install Code LLM Papers Guide in Codex?

Run `npx skills add wentorai/research-plugins --skill code-llm-papers-guide -a codex`. Or copy the skill folder (skills/domains/cs/code-llm-papers-guide in wentorai/research-plugins) into .agents/skills/code-llm-papers-guide in your project. Codex loads it when a task matches its description.

Can I use Code LLM Papers Guide in Cursor, Gemini CLI or GitHub Copilot?

Cursor, Gemini CLI, GitHub Copilot and OpenCode also load SKILL.md folders. With the skills CLI, run `npx skills add wentorai/research-plugins --skill code-llm-papers-guide -a cursor` (or -a gemini-cli, github-copilot or opencode for the others). To copy it by hand, put the folder in .cursor/skills/code-llm-papers-guide, .gemini/skills/code-llm-papers-guide, .github/skills/code-llm-papers-guide and .opencode/skills/code-llm-papers-guide in your project.

What does Code LLM Papers Guide need to run?

SKILL.md names no scripts, command-line tools or credentials: Code LLM Papers Guide is instructions for the agent only. Our summary lists: Python 3.

Does Code LLM Papers Guide access the network?

SKILL.md names 3 domains. As links in the text: github.com, arxiv.org and swebench.com. This is read from the text; nothing was executed.

Is Code LLM Papers Guide safe to install?

Our automated static check of SKILL.md found no risky patterns, such as piping downloads into a shell, reading credential files or hidden Unicode. It is not a guarantee. Review the folder before installing.

What licence does Code LLM Papers Guide use?

Code LLM Papers Guide is published under the MIT licence (the repository's licence). It allows redistribution, so the full SKILL.md is shown on this page.

How many tokens does Code LLM Papers Guide use?

About 1.1k tokens (SKILL.md is roughly 4.5k characters). Agents keep only the skill's name and description in context until a task matches; then they load SKILL.md in full.

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Who maintains Code LLM Papers Guide?

wentorai (a GitHub user) maintains it in wentorai/research-plugins, which has 298 GitHub stars. The repository holds 428 skills in this directory. The repository was last updated on June 19, 2026.

Source: wentorai/research-plugins on GitHub. Facts on this page come from the repository at the commit we read; the author's words are quoted as theirs.