License & Proprietary Notice

MIT License

Copyright (c) 2025 Kodezi Inc.

This license applies to:

• Research paper
• Benchmarks
• Evaluation frameworks
• Documentation in the official GitHub repository
  → https://github.com/kodezi/chronos

Proprietary Notice

The Chronos model itself is proprietary and not included under the MIT license.

Proprietary components include:

• Model weights and parameters
• Kodezi OS integration and deployment infrastructure
• Production APIs and enterprise features
• Training and fine-tuning datasets

Publicly Available Materials

• Research paper
• 500-sample MRR benchmark (full 5,000 in Q1 2026)
• Architecture documentation
• Evaluation results and analysis
• Reference algorithm implementations (AGR, PDM)
• Case studies and reports

Citation

If you use Chronos research in your work, cite:

@article{khan2025chronos,
  title={Kodezi Chronos: A Debugging-First Language Model for
         Repository-Scale Code Understanding},
  author={Khan, Ishraq and Chowdary, Assad and
          Haseeb, Sharoz and Patel, Urvish and Zaii, Yousuf},
  journal={arXiv preprint arXiv:2507.12482},
  year={2025},
  url={https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.12482},
  note={State-of-the-art: 80.33\% on SWE-bench Lite}
}