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Operationalizing Ethics for AI Agents: How Developers Encode Values into Repository Context Files

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Main Authors:	Treude, Christoph, Baltes, Sebastian, Cheong, Marc
Format:	Preprint
Published:	2026
Subjects:	Software Engineering Computers and Society
Online Access:	Acceder al recurso
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