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πŸš€ Kodezi Chronos

The World's First Debugging-First Language Model

arXiv Model Access License Research Benchmark

Debug Success Rate Improvement over GPT-4 Root Cause Accuracy

🎯 65.3% Autonomous Debugging Success β€’ πŸ” 78.4% Root Cause Accuracy β€’ ⚑ 2.2 Average Fix Cycles

Chronos Architecture


🌟 Revolutionary AI That Debugs Like a Senior Developer

Learn More β€’ Get Early Access β€’ Read Paper β€’ View Benchmarks β€’ Documentation β€’ Case Studies


πŸ“Š Performance Metrics

Overall Benchmark Results (5,000 Real-World Bugs)

Metric Chronos GPT-4 Claude-3 Gemini-1.5
Debug Success 65.3%Β±1.4% 8.5%Β±2.1% 7.8%Β±2.3% 11.2%Β±1.7%
Root Cause 78.4%Β±1.2% 12.3%Β±1.8% 11.7%Β±2.0% 15.8%Β±1.5%
Avg Cycles 2.2 6.5 6.8 5.1
Retrieval Precision 91%Β±0.8% 68%Β±2.3% 67%Β±2.4% 74%Β±1.8%
Cost per Bug $1.36 $5.53 $6.67 $6.07
Improvement β€” 7.7x 8.4x 5.8x

All comparisons show p < 0.001 (two-tailed t-test)

Performance Across Bug Categories

Bug Type Chronos GPT-4 Claude-3 Gemini-1.5 Improvement
Syntax Errors 94.2% 82.3% 79.8% 85.1% 1.1x
Logic Bugs 72.8% 12.1% 10.7% 15.3% 6.0x
Concurrency 58.3% 3.2% 2.8% 4.1% 18.2x
Memory Issues 61.7% 5.7% 4.3% 6.9% 10.8x
API Misuse 79.1% 18.9% 16.2% 22.4% 4.2x
Performance 65.4% 7.4% 6.1% 9.8% 8.8x

Repository Scale Performance

Repository Size Chronos Best Baseline Notes
<10K LOC 71.2% 21.3% (Gemini) Small projects
10K-100K LOC 68.9% 14.7% (Gemini) Medium projects
100K-1M LOC 64.3% 8.9% (Gemini) Large codebases
>1M LOC 59.7% 3.8% (Gemini) Enterprise scale

🚨 Model Availability

⚠️ Important Notice

The Kodezi Chronos model is proprietary technology available exclusively through Kodezi OS

Learn more at chronos.so

This repository contains research findings, benchmarks, and evaluation frameworks. The model itself is not publicly available.

Release Timeline

  • Q4 2025: Beta access for select enterprises
  • Q1 2026: General availability via Kodezi OS
  • Website: chronos.so
  • Early Access: kodezi.com/os

🧠 What Makes Chronos Revolutionary?

Debugging-First Architecture

Unlike code completion models, Chronos is purpose-built for finding and fixing bugs

Persistent Debug Memory

Learns from every debugging session, improving continuously

Repository-Scale Understanding

Handles codebases with millions of lines through intelligent retrieval

Autonomous Debugging Loop

Iteratively refines fixes until all tests pass


πŸ—οΈ Architecture Overview

graph TD
    A[Multi-Source Input] --> B[Adaptive Retrieval Engine]
    B --> C[Debug-Tuned LLM Core]
    C --> D[Orchestration Controller]
    D --> E[Execution Sandbox]
    E --> F[Validation Results]
    F --> G{Tests Pass?}
    G -->|No| B
    G -->|Yes| H[Memory Update]
    H --> I[Fix Deployed]
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Seven-Layer Architecture

  1. Multi-Source Input Layer - Code, logs, traces, tests, docs
  2. Adaptive Retrieval Engine - AGR with dynamic k-hop expansion
  3. Debug-Tuned LLM Core - Specialized for debugging workflows
  4. Orchestration Controller - Manages autonomous debugging loop
  5. Persistent Debug Memory - Cross-session pattern learning
  6. Execution Sandbox - Safe validation environment
  7. Explainability Layer - Human-readable explanations

Breakthrough Results

Multi Random Retrieval (MRR) Benchmark

Metric Chronos GPT-4+RAG Claude-3+VectorDB Gemini-1.5+Graph
Precision@10 89.2% 42.3% 48.1% 51.7%
Recall@10 84.7% 31.7% 36.2% 41.8%
Fix Accuracy 67.3% 8.9% 11.2% 14.6%
Context Efficiency 0.71 0.23 0.28 0.31

Cost Effectiveness

                 Cost per Bug    Success Rate    Effective Cost
━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━
Chronos          $0.89           65.3%           $1.36
GPT-4            $0.47            8.5%           $5.53  
Claude-3         $0.52            7.8%           $6.67  
Human Dev        $180            94.2%           $191   

47:1 ROI in First Year for 100-Developer Team


πŸš€ Getting Started

πŸ”¬ Explore the Research

# Clone the repository
git clone https://github.com/kodezi/chronos-research.git
cd chronos-research

# Install dependencies
pip install -r requirements.txt

# Run performance analysis
jupyter notebook notebooks/performance_analysis.ipynb

# Generate visualizations
python scripts/generate_visualizations.py

πŸ“‚ Repository Structure

chronos-research/
β”œβ”€β”€ paper/                    # Research paper and materials
β”œβ”€β”€ benchmarks/               # Evaluation frameworks
β”œβ”€β”€ results/                  # Performance data and analysis
β”œβ”€β”€ architecture/             # System design documentation
β”œβ”€β”€ evaluation/               # Testing methodology
β”œβ”€β”€ demos/                    # Interactive examples
β”œβ”€β”€ docs/                     # Comprehensive documentation
β”œβ”€β”€ notebooks/                # Jupyter analysis notebooks
β”œβ”€β”€ scripts/                  # Utility scripts
└── tests/                    # Test suite

🌟 Key Innovations

15M+ GitHub Issues Training Data

Real-world debugging scenarios with verified fixes from production codebases

Adaptive Graph-Guided Retrieval (AGR)

  • Dynamic k-hop expansion based on query complexity
  • 89.2% precision vs 42.3% for flat retrieval
  • Handles temporal code evolution and refactoring

Output-Optimized Architecture

  • Debugging is output-heavy: ~3K output tokens vs ~3.6K input
  • Specialized for generating fixes, tests, and documentation
  • Quality over quantity approach

Persistent Debug Memory

  • Learns from every debugging session
  • Cross-session pattern recognition
  • Repository-specific bug patterns

πŸ“š Documentation

User Guide Architecture Benchmarks
Get started with Chronos Understand the system design Evaluation methodology
Results Case Studies FAQ
Detailed performance metrics Real-world debugging examples Common questions

Detailed Performance Analysis

Language-Specific Performance

Language Chronos GPT-4 Claude-3 Gemini-1.5 Test Suite Size
Python 68.7% 11.2% 10.3% 14.6% 1,823 bugs
JavaScript 64.2% 7.8% 6.9% 10.1% 1,547 bugs
Java 63.9% 6.3% 5.7% 9.2% 1,630 bugs

Iteration Efficiency

Iterations Chronos Success GPT-4 Success Time Saved
1 42.3% 3.2% 87%
2 58.7% 5.1% 83%
3 65.3% 6.8% 79%
4+ 65.3% 8.5% 74%

Root Cause Analysis Performance

Analysis Type Chronos GPT-4 Claude-3 Gemini-1.5
Syntax Issues 95.8% 87.3% 84.2% 89.1%
Logic Errors 81.3% 15.7% 13.2% 19.4%
State Problems 76.2% 8.9% 7.4% 11.3%
Concurrency 71.4% 4.2% 3.8% 5.9%

🀝 Contributing

We welcome contributions to the research and evaluation frameworks!

# Fork the repository
git fork https://github.com/kodezi/chronos-research

# Create your feature branch
git checkout -b feature/amazing-contribution

# Commit your changes
git commit -m 'Add amazing contribution'

# Push to the branch
git push origin feature/amazing-contribution

# Open a Pull Request

See CONTRIBUTING.md for detailed guidelines.


πŸ’° ROI Analysis

Return on Investment for 100-Developer Team

Metric Value Annual Impact
Bugs Fixed Autonomously 65.3% 3,265 bugs/year
Developer Hours Saved 2.4 hrs/bug 7,836 hours
Cost Savings $150/hour $1,175,400
Chronos Cost $25/dev/mo $30,000
Net ROI $1,145,400
ROI Ratio 47:1

Based on average of 50 bugs per developer per year


πŸ”¬ Research Contributions

  1. Novel Architecture: First debugging-specific language model
  2. AGR Algorithm: Adaptive Graph-Guided Retrieval for unlimited context
  3. MRR Benchmark: New evaluation framework for code understanding
  4. Debug Memory: Persistent learning across debugging sessions
  5. 15M+ Dataset: Largest curated debugging dataset from GitHub

πŸ“ Citation

@article{khan2025chronos,
  title={Kodezi Chronos: A Debugging-First Language Model for 
         Repository-Scale, Memory-Driven Code Understanding},
  author={Khan, Ishraq and Chowdary, Assad and 
          Haseeb, Sharoz and Patel, Urvish},
  journal={arXiv preprint arXiv:2507.12482},
  year={2025}
}

πŸ“ Repository Contents

Performance Data

  • /results/performance_tables/ - All 13 benchmark tables
  • /results/figures/ - Architecture and performance visualizations
  • /results/case_studies/ - Detailed debugging examples
  • /results/ablation_studies/ - Component analysis

Evaluation Framework

  • /benchmarks/multi-random-retrieval/ - MRR benchmark suite
  • /evaluation/ - Testing methodology and protocols
  • /notebooks/ - Interactive analysis notebooks

πŸ“š Documentation

  • /docs/ - Comprehensive user and technical guides
  • /architecture/ - System design documentation
  • /paper/ - Research paper and supplementary materials

Tools & Scripts

  • /scripts/ - Evaluation and visualization tools
  • /tests/ - Test suite for framework validation

🌐 Deployment & Integration

Available via Kodezi OS (Q1 2026)

Learn More: chronos.so
Join Waitlist: kodezi.com/os


πŸ“ž Contact & Community

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πŸ“„ License

This research repository is licensed under the MIT License - see LICENSE for details.

⚠️ Note: The Chronos model itself is proprietary and available only through Kodezi OS.


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