arXiv AI

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
Aug 7

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.

By Varun Ursekar, Apaar Shanker, Yash Maurya, Shehab Yasser, Vijay S. Kalmath, Veronica Chatrath, Yuan Xue
arXiv AI
Jun 2

ToolSelf: Unifying Task Execution and Self-Reconfiguration via Tool-Driven Emergent Adaptation

arXiv:2602. 07883v3 Announce Type: replace Abstract: LLM-powered agentic systems excel at complex long-horizon tasks, but remain constrained by static configurations fixed before execution.

By Jingqi Zhou, Sheng Wang, Dezhao Deng, Junwen Lu, Junwei Su, Qintong Li, Jiahui Gao, Hao Wu, Jiyue Jiang, Lingpeng Kong, Dunhong Jin, Chuan Wu
arXiv AI
Jul 14

AgentAbstain: Do LLM Agents Know When Not to Act?

arXiv:2607. 10059v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Agent systems based on large language models (LLMs) are increasingly deployed for autonomous tasks, yet existing evaluations mostly focus on task success rather than whether agents know when to abstain.

By Xun Liu, Yi Evie Zhang, Vira Kasprova, Parisa Rabbani, Pardis Sadat Zahraei, Tianyu Zhang, Ali Ebrahimpour-Boroojeny, Varun Chandrasekaran
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.

By Zewen Liu, Zhan Shi, Yisi Sang, Bing He, Minhua Lin, Tianxin Wei, Dakuo Wang, Benoit Dumoulin, Wei Jin, Hanqing Lu
arXiv Machine Learning
Jun 25

The Interplay of Harness Design and Post-Training in LLM Agents

arXiv:2606. 25447v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Tool-integrated LLM agents are often wrapped within a harness: the scaffolding that determines which tools are exposed, how they are described, and what auxiliary information accompanies each per-step observation.

By Kyungmin Kim, Youngbin Choi, Seoyeon Lee, Suhyeon Jun, Dongwoo Kim, Sangdon Park
arXiv AI
Jul 28

Building AI That Works: ESnet's Pragmatic Approach to AI-Driven Operational Excellence

arXiv:2607. 22948v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: The ORBIT (Operations Responses and Business Intelligence Toolkit) project was initiated to assess agentic AI for the upcoming ESnet 7 initiative and to address persistent operational pain points in the Network Operations Center (NOC) workflow.

By Bin Dong, Sukhada Gholba, Brooklin Gore, Shawn Kwang, David Mitchell, Samuel Oehlert, Garrett Stewart, Brendan White, Luke Baker, Ed Balas, Britt Gathright, Chin Guok, Jon-Paul Heron, John MacAuley, Scott Richmond, Chris Robb, Chris Tracy, Kesheng Wu