arXiv AI
Jul 15
Rethinking the Evaluation of Harness Evolution for Agents
arXiv:2607. 12227v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: We revisit the evaluation of automatic harness evolution for LLM agents.
HarnessOpt-Bench: Evaluating LLMs at Harness Optimization
arXiv:2608. 06301v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: As LLMs are increasingly deployed within agentic systems, their capabilities depend not only on the model weights but also on the harness: the prompts, tools, control flow, memory, and orchestration code surrounding them.
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arXiv AI
Jun 3
VeRO: A Harness for Agents to Optimize Agents
arXiv:2602. 22480v4 Announce Type: replace Abstract: An important emerging application of coding agents is agent harness optimization: the iterative improvement of a target agent by editing and evaluating its code.
arXiv AI
Aug 10
An End-to-End Agent Auditing Engine
arXiv:2608. 07346v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: With the rapid advancement of large language models (LLMs), harnesses have become essential infrastructure for deploying agents across a wide range of domains.
arXiv AI
Aug 11
$A^2E$ : An End-to-End Agent Auditing Engine
arXiv:2608. 07346v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: With the rapid advancement of large language models (LLMs), harnesses have become essential infrastructure for deploying agents across a wide range of domains.
arXiv Machine Learning
Jul 10
TTHE: Test-Time Harness Evolution
arXiv:2607. 08124v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: The behavior of an LLM agent is determined not only by the underlying model, but also by its harness: the executable program that constructs context, invokes tools, verifies intermediate results, and recovers from failures.
arXiv AI
Jun 2
Adaptive Auto-Harness: Sustained Self-Improvement for Agentic System Deployment on Open-Ended Task Streams
arXiv:2606. 01770v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Auto-harness systems such as A-Evolve, GEPA, and Meta-Harness improve LLM agents by optimizing prompts, skills, tools, memories, and supporting infrastructure from execution feedback, but they are typically evaluated on fixed offline benchmarks.
arXiv AI
Jun 4
The Meta-Agent Challenge: Are Current Agents Capable of Autonomous Agent Development?
arXiv:2606. 04455v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Current AI benchmarks evaluate agents on task execution within human-designed workflows.
arXiv AI
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Task-Aware Harness Provisioning for LLM Agents in Mission-Critical Infrastructure Operations
arXiv:2608. 17433v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: LLM agents have been widely adopted to operate mission-critical infrastructure (MCI).
arXiv AI
Jul 9
Cost-Effective Agent Harnesses for Abstract Reasoning and Generalization on ARC-AGI-1
arXiv:2607. 06764v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Recent progress on ARC-AGI-1 from disclosed architectures has come broadly from two regimes: heavy test-time compute over frontier models (evolutionary search, exhaustive sampling, extended chain-of-thought), or benchmark-specific training in which small models are fine-tuned on ARC data, often with task-specialized architectures.
arXiv AI
Aug 7
Matching Matters: A Fair Quality-Efficiency Benchmark for Command-Line Agents
arXiv:2606. 21140v2 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Rapid advances in large language models have improved the task-solving capabilities of command-line-interface (CLI)-based agents, whose CLIs determine how models invoke tools, maintain interaction history, and recover from failures.
arXiv AI
Jul 3
PACE: A Proxy for Agentic Capability Evaluation
arXiv:2607. 02032v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Evaluating LLM agents on benchmarks like SWE-Bench and GAIA can be expensive, time-consuming, and requires complex infrastructure.
arXiv AI
Jul 17
MemoHarness: Agent Harnesses That Learn from Experience
arXiv:2607. 14159v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: An agent harness is the external control layer that turns a base LLM into an executable agent by managing context, tools, orchestration, memory, decoding, and output handling.