SWE-Pruner Pro: The Coder LLM Already Knows What to Prune
Abstract
Pruning long context for coding agents has been a vital technology for efficient context management. While existing context pruning methods such as SWE-Pruner realize this by attaching a separate code classifier, we find the agent itself encodes internal representations indicating the relevance of code context when reading tool output. Based on this finding, we propose SWE-Pruner Pro, which prunes tool outputs directly inside the agent. Concretely, a small head turns the agent's own internal representations into a keep-or-prune label for each line, with a length-aware embedding keyed to each tool output's line count. Across two open-weight backbones and four multi-turn benchmarks, SWE-Pruner Pro saves up to 39% of prompt and completion tokens while preserving task quality, with bounded inference overhead. Notably, on MiMo-V2-Flash SWE-Pruner Pro additionally raises the SWE-Bench Verified resolve rate by +3.8% and the long-context Oolong accuracy by +2.2 points.
Cite
@article{arxiv.2607.18213,
title = {SWE-Pruner Pro: The Coder LLM Already Knows What to Prune},
author = {Yuhang Wang and Yuling Shi and Shaoqiu Zhang and Jialiang Liang and Shilin He and Siyu Ye and Yuting Chen and Kai Cai and Xiaodong Gu},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2607.18213},
year = {2026}
}
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Project page: https://github.com/Ayanami1314/swe-pruner-pro