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  1. HERA: Harness-Environment Co-Evolution for Reliable Agentic Abstention

    Oct 5, 2026Han Luo, Bingbing Wen, Guang Yang +3Agent Harness

    University of Washington · University of Leeds · Carnegie Mellon University +2

  2. MedicalHarness: A Controlled Evaluation of LLMs and Agent Harnesses on Medical Tasks

    Oct 5, 2026Ziqing Wang, Lili Zhao, Kaize DingAgent Harness

    Northwestern University

  3. Harness-Search: Guiding Long-Horizon Search through Multi-Agent Coordination

    Oct 4, 2026Shanyong Wang, Zhenwen Ji, Lei Jin +7Search AgentsLong-Horizon Agents

    Xiaohongshu Inc. · the Joint SDU-NTU Centre for Artificial Intelligence Research (C-FAIR), Shandong University · University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

  4. MESH-Harness: Self-Improving Agent Harnesses via Bandit-Guided Compositional Evolution

    Oct 4, 2026Zhiwei Shang, Yu Huo, Mingrong Gong +6Agent Harness

    The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Shenzhen · DeepWisdom · The Chinese University of Hong Kong +3

  5. Causal Improvement Graph for Agentic Harness Optimization

    Oct 4, 2026Junjie Zhang, Shunyu Liu, Haoyu Wang +3Agent HarnessCausal Graph

    Generative AI Lab, College of Computing and Data Science, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore 639798 · Tongyi Lab, Alibaba Group

  6. Mingbird: A Local-First Agent Harness Enabling Small Open Models to Complete Real Tasks

    Oct 1, 2026Hao Wang, Ting HuangAgent HarnessReal-World Tasks

    School of Mathematics and Physics, University of Science and Technology Beijing Beijing, China · Honor Device Co., Ltd. Beijing, China

  7. VideoEvolve: Evolving Agent Harnesses for Video Temporal Grounding

    Oct 1, 2026Bingjun Luo, Yuhuan Fan, Jialin Guo +1Video Temporal GroundingTemporal Grounding

    Tsinghua University · Columbia University · Harbin Engineering University

  8. Harness Annealing: Learning to Act with Less External Control

    Oct 1, 2026Yingxuan Yang, Huacan Chai, Ying WenAgent HarnessInternalization

    Shanghai Jiao Tong University · University of California, Berkeley

  9. Finding the Right Fit: Model-Harness Interactions across Agent Tasks

    Oct 1, 2026Yixuan Li, Yiyun Zhou, Yao Long Teng +6Agent HarnessAgentic Benchmarks

    College of Computing and Data Science, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore

  10. Cogentic: Multi-Agent Orchestration for Automated Proof Discovery

    Sep 30, 2026Yang Cai, Vineet Gupta, Yanchen Jiang +4Theorem ProvingMulti-Agent Orchestration

    Google Research · Yale University · Google DeepMind

  11. DynaHarness: A Dynamic Physical Harness for Self-Evolving Robot Agents

    Sep 30, 2026Haoyuan Deng, Jiebin Liu, Tengxiao Zhang +3Robot PoliciesAgent Harness

    Nanyang Technological University · Nanjing University

  12. How Much of a Harness Does a Strong Agent Need for Autonomous ML Engineering?

    Sep 30, 2026Kirill Brilliantov, Alejandro Hernández-Cano, Emmanuel AbbéAgent HarnessCoding Agents

    EPFL · Apple

  13. Mid-Harness: Scaling Actions Between Model and Harness for Terminal Agents

    Sep 30, 2026Minki Kang, Ryo Hachiuma, Shaokun Zhang +8Test-Time ScalingAgent Harness

    NVIDIA · KAIST

  14. Better Deck or Different Judge? Evaluating Agentic Harness Gains in Corporate and Investment Banking

    Sep 30, 2026Ludovic Gibert, Matis Despujols, Andre-Louis RochetGradingLarge Language Model Judges

    AIData2Action · TW3 Partners

  15. Composing Task-specific Agent Harnesses at Test Time with Reusable Primitives

    Sep 30, 2026Peng Kuang, Haibo Jin, Dehao Wu +4Agent HarnessTest Time

    University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign · University of Michigan, Ann Arbor

  16. VidHarness: Evolving Agent Harnesses for Cost-Efficient Long Video Understanding

    Sep 29, 2026Susan Liang, Jianmin Wu, Daxiang DongVideo AgentVideo Understanding

    Baidu, Inc.

  17. MILO: Automated Harness Discovery via Orchestrated Multi-Agent Evolution

    Sep 29, 2026Prithwish Jana, Mononito Goswami, Hao Liu +9Agent HarnessMulti-Agent Evolution

    Georgia Institute of Technology · AWS AI Labs · Carnegie Mellon University +1

  18. Learning Meta-Skills for Agent Harness Design in Test-Time AI4AI

    Sep 29, 2026Cheng Qian, Kunlun Zhu, Beibin Li +2Agent HarnessReasoning Skills

    Apodex · University of Illinois Urbana Champaign

  19. Retrieval-Augmented Skill Optimization via Cross-Harness Adaptation

    Sep 29, 2026Jaewon Chu, Ji Soo Lee, Jihwan Park +8SkillsAgentic Optimization

    Korea University · KAIST · Meta AI

  20. AgentBug-Smith: Automatically Reproducing Real-World Harness Bugs in Agentic Systems

    Sep 29, 2026Yiming Cheng, Alfin Wijaya Rahardja, Mengshi Zhang +3Agent HarnessRepair

    The University of Chicago · Fudan University · TensorBlock, Inc +2

  21. Harness Learning Enables Generalizable Test-Time Adaptation

    Sep 28, 2026Alvin Zhang, Xuecheng Liu, Zixuan Wang +6Agent HarnessEfficient Task Adaptation

  22. SRHarness: A Harness for Agentic Symbolic Regression

    Sep 28, 2026Zihan Yu, Shixuan Zhou, Hao Huang +2Symbolic RegressionAgent Harness

    Department of Electronic Engineering, BNRist, Tsinghua University, Beijing, China · College of AI, Tsinghua University, Beijing, China · Department of Earth System Science, Tsinghua University, Beijing, China

  23. Beyond Skill Evolution: Self-Evolving Context Management Policies for Long-Horizon Agent Harnesses

    Sep 28, 2026Weiyuan Li, Jinghan Xu, Aili Chen +4Long-Horizon AgentsLarge Language Model Agents

    School of Data Science, Fudan University · Shanghai Key Laboratory of Data Science · College of Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence, Fudan University

  24. NavHarness: Towards Lifelong Embodied Navigation

    Sep 28, 2026Xunyi Zhao, Jian Zhou, Sihao Lin +6Object Goal NavigationNavigation

    Adelaide University · Responsible AI Research Centre, AIML · CSIRO Data61

  25. Vestrum: Improving Agent Harnesses by Adapting Their Verification, Structure and Memory

    Sep 27, 2026Jayant Parashar, Eugene F. Douglass, William C. Bastian +1Agent Harness

    University of Georgia · Emory University

  26. Raven: The Harness of Harnesses for Composable Agentic Intelligence

    Sep 27, 2026EverMind AIAgent HarnessArtificial Intelligence Agents

    EverMind AI

  27. HarnessPAI: An Evolving Harness for Physical AI

    Sep 24, 2026Xin Wang, Wenhao Wu, Menghao Zhang +20Embodied Artificial IntelligenceAgent Harness

  28. Control the Harness, Control the Cost: Routing and Governing AI Coding Agents in the Enterprise

    Sep 24, 2026Arian Abbasi, Alan Aqrawi, Ted KwartlerAgent HarnessCoding Agents

    Accenture Responsible AI · Accenture Americas Advanced AI Practice · Harvard Extension School, Harvard University

  29. Grow the Harness, Not the Context: From Strategy-Free Scaffolds to Reusable Specialist Agents

    Sep 22, 2026Laizhen Li, Jiarui Li, Juanjuan Zhao +4Agent HarnessScaffolds

    Shenzhen Institutes of Advanced Technology, Chinese Academy of Sciences · University of Chinese Academy of Sciences · Shenzhen University of Advanced Technology +1

  30. Harness-Zero: Harness Distillation via Agent-as-Harness

    Sep 21, 2026Haoran Ye, Yuxing Lu, Haonan Dong +2Agent HarnessSymbolic Distillation

    State Key Laboratory of General Artificial Intelligence, School of Intelligence Science and Technology, Peking University · College of Future Technology, Peking University · Google +1

  31. RRSI: Regularized Recursive Self-Improvement of Agent Harnesses

    Sep 21, 2026Peng Xia, Rujun Han, Zifeng Wang +11Self-Improving AgentsRecursive Self-Improvement

    Google Cloud AI Research · UNC-Chapel Hill · Stanford University +1

  32. An Empirical Study of Harness Design for Coding Agents

    Sep 17, 2026Run-Ze Fan, Zihao Zhang, Simin Ma +6Coding AgentsAgent Harness

    UMass Amherst · Emory University · UNC Charlotte

  33. How Do Agent Harnesses Create Value? Planning Information and Release Control in Stateful LLM Agents

    Sep 17, 2026Yukun Zhang, Kemu Xu, Yishen ChenAgent HarnessLarge Language Model Planning

    The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Shenzhen, China · University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh, United Kingdom · The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong, China

  34. Agentic Societies Need a Social Harness

    Sep 15, 2026Tapan Chugh, Vidushi Singh, Krish Jain +2Agent HarnessComplex Societies

    University of Washington Seattle, Washington, USA

  35. Stellar Colosseum: A Many-Agent Harness for Long-Horizon Research in Mathematics and Theoretical Computer Science

    Sep 14, 2026Honghao Lin, David P. Woodruff, Yuan Deng +3Theorem ProvingMathematics

    1Google Research. · 2Carnegie Mellon University.

  36. HarnessVLN: Unifying Training-Free Embodied Navigation through an Agent Harness

    Sep 14, 2026Yang Chen, Lirong Che, Zhenyu Huang +7Vision-Language NavigationEmbodied Agents

    Nanjing University · AGIBOT · Tsinghua University

  37. Harness or Model? Isolating the Harness Effect in Agentic Coding with a Contamination-Controlled Private Suite

    Sep 14, 2026Mohsen ArjmandiAgent HarnessCoding Agents

    evolutionID GmbH, Germany

  38. RobustSGPO: Search-Space Control for Agent Harness Evolution

    Sep 10, 2026Zibo Zhao, Jijun Shi, Mo Zhou +9Agentic OptimizationAgent Harness

    Wuhan University, Wuhan, China · Kuaishou Technology, Beijing, China

  39. From Evidence to Effect: Authority Semantics and Runtime Infrastructure for Stateful Agents

    Sep 8, 2026Yang Li, Zongsi Xu, Sergey Volkov +7AuthorityAgent Harness

    The University of Hong Kong · School of Artificial Intelligence, Jiangxi Science and Technology Normal University · The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology +1

  40. NeoHorse-1: Towards Recursive Self-Improvement via Agentic Post-Training with Routing Harness

    Sep 8, 2026NeoHorse Team, Guoliang Cao, Guohao Dai +34Self-Improving AgentsReinforcement Learning Post-Training

    TokenRhythm

  41. Environment Evolution for Terminal Agents

    Sep 3, 2026Zhiyuan Fan, Tinghao Yu, Yuanjun Cai +9Synthetic EnvironmentsEvolutionary Optimization Methods

    Hunyuan Team, Tencent

  42. What Do CAE Simulation Agents Really Need Beyond a Generic Harness?

    Sep 3, 2026Jiasheng Shi, Tianhan ZhangAgent HarnessMulti-Agent Simulations

    DP Technology · Beijing, China · School of Astronautics, Beihang University +1

  43. CordisBench: Can Language Models Reason About Component Lifecycles in Dynamic Agent Harnesses?

    Sep 1, 2026Damien Sileo, Dimitri KachlerLifecycleAgent Harness

    Univ. Lille, Inria, CNRS, Centrale Lille, UMR 9189 - CRIStAL, F-59000 Lille, France

  44. HarnessDev: Can LLMs Create and Evolve Their Own Agent Harness?

    Sep 1, 2026Yuhao Wu, Jingyuan Zhang, Jiajun Shi +16Agent Harness

  45. WHALE: A Simple Recipe for Joint Harness-Weight Optimization

    Aug 31, 2026Haechan Kim, Yoonho Lee, Gisang Lee +2Agent HarnessAgentic Optimization

    KRAFTON · KAIST · Stanford University

  46. Harness-RL: Black-Box Reinforcement Learning with Action-Args Decoupling for Central-Agent Multi-Agent Harnesses

    Aug 30, 2026Xinke Jiang, Zhixin Zhang, Zhibang Yang +6Agentic Reinforcement LearningAgent Harness

    National Engineering Research Center of Software Engineering, Peking University, Beijing, China · School of Computer Science, Peking University, Beijing, China · Key Laboratory of High Confidence Software Technologies, Ministry of Education, Beijing, China +3

  47. Logos: An Agent Harness on a Cross-Process Bus

    Aug 28, 2026Hanzhang Jia, Liheng Zeng, Hao Cheng +2Agent HarnessState Space

    University of Sussex Brighton, United Kingdom · Zhejiang Gongshang University Hangzhou, China · Shanghai Shuyuan Information Technology Co., Ltd. Shanghai, China

  48. JIT-Agent: Scaling Harness Intelligence via Just-in-Time Harness Evolution

    Aug 26, 2026Guibin Zhang, Leo Lu, Fangzhou Xie +15Agent HarnessEvolutionary Optimization Methods

    JIT-Agent Team

  49. DiG-bench: Discovery in Games

    Aug 12, 2026Ruairidh M. Battleday, Kai Sandbrink, Jimi Cullen-Drohan +13Agentic BenchmarksArtificial Intelligence Benchmarks

    1Thinking About Thinking · 2Independent · University of Oxford +5

  50. Agentic Harnesses: LLM-Driven Verification Layers for Robot Autonomy

    Aug 10, 2026Rohan Bhagra, Mahantesh Halapannavar, Uddhav BhattaraiLarge Language Model PlanningRobot Autonomy

    Carnegie Mellon University, Department of Information Systems

  51. From Prompt to Harness: Coderlet from Scratch

    Aug 10, 2026Mengfan LiAgent HarnessLifecycle

  52. Evo-Bench: Can Language Models Improve Agent Harness?

    Aug 10, 2026Lisheng Huang, Chen Yang, Hao Zhou +6Evolving HarnessAgent Harness

    1Gaoling School of Artificial Intelligence, Renmin University of China · 2BOSS Zhipin, Beijing, China

  53. A2EA^2E : An End-to-End Agent Auditing Engine

    Aug 7, 2026Haoning Wang, Mingxun Zhang, Chenyue Yu +4Agent HarnessAgentic Evaluations

    Shanghai Artificial Intelligence Laboratory

  54. HarnessSafe: Evaluating Safety Across Persistent Carriers in Agent Harnesses

    Aug 7, 2026Xiao Zhang, Yusheng Wang, Yuhao Fei +5Agent HarnessAttack-Success Rate

    Beijing University of Posts and Telecommunications · China Telecom Group Co., Ltd. · Beijing Academy of Artificial Intelligence

  55. HarnessOpt-Bench: Evaluating LLMs at Harness Optimization

    Aug 6, 2026Varun Ursekar, Apaar Shanker, Yash Maurya +4Agent HarnessAgentic Benchmarks

    Scale AI

  56. EvoHarness-RL: Learning Self-Evolving Runtime Harness for Long-Horizon LLM Agents

    Aug 5, 2026Xuying Ning, Dongqi Fu, Tianxin Wei +13Long-Horizon AgentsAgent Harness

    University of Illinois Urbana–Champaign, 2Meta AI

  57. Skill-Use: Can LLMs Actually Use Skills in Agentic Harnesses?

    Aug 5, 2026Jinyi Han, Yuanjian Xu, Ying Liao +6SkillsAgent Harness

    1East China Normal University · 2Hong Kong University of Science and Technology · 3Fudan University +1

  58. Harness-R1: Learning to Edit Executable Runtime Harnesses from Agent Failure Trajectories

    Aug 3, 2026Shuai Shao, Kangning Zhang, Qingyao Li +7Agent HarnessRuntime

    Shanghai Jiao Tong University · Xiaohongshu Inc. · Southeast University

  59. LongHorizon-Harness: Advancing Long-Horizon Agents for Real-World Tasks

    Aug 3, 2026Ziyu Ma, Hailang Huang, Shun Zou +5Long-Horizon AgentsLong-Horizon Task Planning

    DreamX Team, Alibaba Group

  60. HarnessCompass: Guiding Automatic Harness Evolution toward Generalizable and Effective Agent Harnesses

    Aug 3, 2026Luan Zhang, Ruochen Zhou, Dandan Song +9Evolving HarnessAgent Harness

    Beijing Institute of Technology, China · City University of Hong Kong, China · Independent, China