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CONTRA screens clarification questions by behavioral divergence, reaching top F1 across four coding agents and beating the best baseline macro-average by 13.88 points

The authors propose CONTRA, a training-free method that broadly discovers candidate clarification questions, filters them semantically and qualifies them by checking for stable behavioral differences in programs generated under two plausible answers, then uses interaction history to ask or stop; on ClarifyCodeBench it achieves the highest F1 with all four coding agents, exceeding the best baseline macro-average F1 by 13.88 percentage points, and with the same LLM and evaluation protocol it achieves higher clarification recall and F1 than the Claude Code and OpenHands harnesses, and is implemented as a Claude Code plugin.