AAAI-26 Workshop in Singapore EXPO, January 27, 2026

Software development is changing with collaborative AI agents that orchestrate full programming workflows. Unlike simple code completion, these systems must coordinate with each other and with human developers across planning, implementation, testing, debugging, and documentation. This workshop brings together researchers and practitioners to design, evaluate, and deploy AI teammates for real development.

Workshop topic and focus

We explore how AI agents collaborate in modern software engineering. We study single agent systems that work with humans, multi agent systems that coordinate among themselves, and hybrid approaches. We focus on interaction models, handoffs, workflow design, and on safeguards that preserve human agency while leveraging AI capability. We also ask how to make these systems reliable, auditable, and safe for production, and what verification and evaluation frameworks are needed.

Topics of Interest

• Collaborative AI architectures for software development

• Multi-agent coordination strategies

• Human–AI workflow integration and handoff mechanisms

• Preserving human expertise and agency in AI-assisted coding

• Interaction design in IDEs, CLIs, and collaborative environments

• Trust, reliability, and safety in collaborative coding agents

• Verification, validation, and auditing frameworks

• Evaluation methodologies and benchmarks for collaboration

• User studies and empirical developer experience evaluations

• Industrial deployments and case studies of AI coding agents

• Applications in planning, implementation, debugging, and testing

• Lessons from systems such as GitHub Copilot, Amazon Kiro, Cursor AI, and Asimov

Call for Papers

We welcome submissions from academia and industry.

• Regular papers, up to six pages: Mature research with empirical results or theory.

• Position papers, up to four pages: New perspectives, conceptual frameworks, emerging directions.

• Extended abstracts, up to two pages: Early stage work, system demos, industry experiences.

Accepted papers will be presented as talks, spotlights, or posters.

Attendance plan: At least one organizer will attend AAAI-26 in person to ensure on site representation and engagement.

Submission site: https://cmt3.research.microsoft.com/CodeMates2026/

Submission due: Oct 22, 2025

Proceedings: Tuesday, January 27, 2026

Speakers

TBD

Organizers

WebChair

Submissions

The Microsoft CMT service was used for managing the peer-reviewing process for this conference. This service was provided for free by Microsoft and they bore all expenses, including costs for Azure cloud services as well as for software development and support.