Does My README File Need To Be Updated? Exploring LLM-Based README Maintenance
Published in arXiv preprint (Major Revision at IEEE TSE), 2026
Recommended citation: Haoyu Gao, Hong Yi Lin, Christoph Treude, Gregory Gay, and Mansooreh Zahedi. 2026. Does My README File Need To Be Updated? Exploring LLM-Based README Maintenance. arXiv:2603.00489. https://arxiv.org/abs/2603.00489
A lightweight LLM-driven approach for precise, localised README updates in a human-in-the-loop workflow: given a pull request, the pipeline decides whether an update is needed, pinpoints where, and justifies why. Evaluated on 27,772 PRs across 714 popular repositories.