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Understanding Becomes a Software Deliverable
Cognitive Tours links needs, decisions, code, tests and open questions while leaving humans responsible for the narrative.
Summary
Cognitive Tours links needs, decisions, code, tests and open questions while leaving humans responsible for the narrative.
Agentic coding can create cognitive debt when a team can no longer explain how a system works, and intent debt when goals and constraints disappear from view. Cognitive Tours is a web prototype for curated paths through user needs, design decisions, code, tests and unresolved questions. AI-assisted skills flag possible stale waypoints and suggest additions, but people verify relationships and decide what belongs in the tour. The paper presents a design and evaluation agenda rather than evidence that the tool reduces debt in production teams.
Why it matters
Cognitive Tours links needs, decisions, code, tests and open questions while leaving humans responsible for the narrative.
Limits and context
No additional limitation was separately recorded.
Key claims
Cognitive Tours links needs, decisions, code, tests and open questions while leaving humans responsible for the narrative.
Evidence: source-2026-11-08-008
Sources
- arXiv preprint 2611.08456, original v1arXiv · primary research
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