How to pronounce CodeAct

CodeAct is most commonly pronounced "code act" (/ˈkoʊdˌækt/). This is the widely-used reading among engineers, though edge cases exist.

Coined compound of "Code" + "Act(ion)" from the ICML 2024 paper; the agent framework that lets LLMs emit executable Python as their action space (underpins OpenHands / CodeActAgent). Two plain English words; STRESS first syllable: CODE-act (noun-compound stress), not code-ACT.

Source: arXiv 2402.01030 — "Executable Code Actions Elicit Better LLM Agents" (Wang et al., ICML 2024)

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