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arXiv Computation and Language By Gaotang Li, Bhavana Dalvi Mishra, Yifei Ming, Yanfei Chen, Zhongying CuiZhu, Lesly Miculicich, Long T. Le, Rui Meng, Chun-Liang Li, Hanghang Tong, Chen-Yu Lee, Tomas Pfister

Object-Oriented Harness: Evolving Agent Harnesses through Object-Oriented Design

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Object-Oriented Harness (OO-Harness) is a framework that optimizes agent harnesses by evolving a hierarchy of executable harness classes through object-oriented design. During training, an evolution agent uses execution records to create specialized harness subclasses, while at test time a harness router selects the appropriate harness for each task based on learned routing lessons. Experiments on three long-horizon benchmarks show OO-Harness outperforms other methods, achieving up to a 15% absolute improvement over the base harness.

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