Spec-Driven Agentic Development Transforms SDLC

A new report on arXiv details how frontier coding agents are restructuring the Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC) by leveraging large language models with extensive context windows.

The agents can ingest large Functional Requirement Documents (FRDs) in a single workflow.

Specification quality is crucial for autonomous delivery.

The study focuses on rich context handling and multi-step reasoning.

Source: https://arxiv.org/abs/2608.20341