@article{tactmitigatingoverthinkingandoveractingi,
  title = {TACT: Mitigating Overthinking and Overacting in Coding Agents via Activation Steering},
  author = {Yuan Sui and Yulin Chen and Yibo Li and Xue Jiang and Yufei He and Yihong Dong and Xiaoxin He and Tianyu Gao and Bryan Hooi},
  year = {2026},
  eprint = {2605.05980},
  archivePrefix = {arXiv},
  url = {https://arxiv.org/abs/2605.05980},
}