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arxivcs.AI2026-07-01

Agent4cs: A Multi-agent System for Code Summarization in Large Hierarchical Codebases

Yongjian Tang, Ezgi Sarikayak, Doruk Tuncel, Jie M. Zhang, Thomas Runkler

Understanding large, complex codebases, especially those with obfuscated structures and incomplete documentation, remains a significant challenge. Existing code summarization solutions often rely on a single language model or coding assistant like Claude Code, and treat source code as flat text, underutilizing the rich interdependencies and hierarchical information within a repository. To address these shortcomings, we propose Agent4cs - a multi-agent framework that summarizes large codebases in a bottom-up fashion, where a summarization agent focuses on producing robust summaries; a keyword-extraction agent proactively identifies critical information from subfolders; and a quality-assurance agent iteratively refines the outputs for readability, coherence, and completeness. Evaluated on 7 frontier models, Agent4cs improves semantic consistency across all folder levels by average 8% compared to two structured prompting baselines with code segments. Furthermore, extensive evaluation on real-world datasets demonstrates up to 38% gains in normalized keyword coverage rate over the same baselines.

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