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Kat-Coder-v2.5 Technical Report (Qwen3.6-35B-A3B base for post-training)

Researchers released KAT-Coder-V2.5, a coding-focused agentic model trained to act autonomously inside real executable repositories, achieving the best agentic tool-use result on PinchBench and ranking second only to Opus 4.8 on repository-level software engineering benchmarks. The model's development addressed bottlenecks in reproducible environments, verifiable rewards, and high-value trajectories through an end-to-end agentic post-training framework including AutoBuilder and KwaiClawEnv, and scaled reinforcement learning with harness randomization and multi-teacher distillation.

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Kat-Coder-v2.5 Technical Report (Qwen3.6-35B-A3B base for post-training)
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Abstract:We present KAT-Coder-V2.5, a coding-focused agentic model trained to act autonomously inside real, executable repositories rather than as a single-turn code generator. Its capability is bottlenecked less by model scale than by the scarcity of reproducible environments, verifiable rewards, and high-value trajectories, which we address with an end-to-end agentic post-training framework. AutoBuilder reconstructs multilingual repositories into sandboxed environments with fail-to-pass and pass-to-pass verification at scale, from which we regenerate self-contained task specifications, recover near-miss trajectories, and distill supervision through process-aware filtering, while KwaiClawEnv synthesizes large-scale tool-use trajectories from executable services and real task seeds. We further scale reinforcement learning with harness randomization, a reliability-hardened sandbox, an asymmetric actor--critic PPO with hindsight-augmented value estimation, and a harness-oriented reward framework, and unify SWE, Agent-Claw, and WebCoding experts via Multi-Teacher On-Policy Distillation. Across six software-engineering and agentic benchmarks, KAT-Coder-V2.5 delivers the best agentic tool-use result on PinchBench and ranks second only to the frontier Opus 4.8 on repository-level software engineering. Our service is available at[this https URL].

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