Improving Usability and Productivity of PETSc with Agent-Based Workflows

Summary

Reports early experience building an AI-assisted, agent-based ecosystem—RAG grounded in PETSc manual pages and curated documentation—to help users select solvers, debug configurations, and validate results in PETSc.

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@article{2026_smith_petsc_agent_workflows,
  title = {Improving Usability and Productivity of PETSc with Agent-Based Workflows},
  author = {Barry Smith and Hong Zhang and Junchao Zhang and Satish Balay and Le Chen and Murat Keçeli and Lois Curfman McInnes},
  journal = {2026 (preprint/report)},
  year = {2026}
}