@inproceedings{ding-etal-2026-octobench, title = "{O}cto{B}ench: Benchmarking Scaffold-Aware Instruction Following in Repository-Grounded Agentic Coding", author = "Ding, Deming and Liu, Shichun and Yang, Enhui and Lin, Jiahang and Chen, Ziying and Dou, Shihan and Guo, Honglin and Cheng, Weiyu and Zhao, Pengyu and Xiao, Chengjun and Zeng, Qunhong and Zhang, Qi and Huang, Xuanjing and Xu, Qidi and Gui, Tao", editor = "Liakata, Maria and Moreira, Viviane P. and Zhang, Jiajun and Jurgens, David", booktitle = "Proceedings of the 64th Annual Meeting of the {A}ssociation for {C}omputational {L}inguistics (Volume 1: Long Papers)", month = jul, year = "2026", address = "San Diego, California, United States", publisher = "Association for Computational Linguistics", url = "https://preview.aclanthology.org/check-for-anonymous-pdfs/2026.acl-long.269/", pages = "5958--5978", ISBN = "979-8-89176-390-6" }