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  1. AutoDesign: Meta-Harness Optimization for Long-Horizon Agentic Design

    Aug 13, 2026Yaxin Luo, Haobin Jiang, Jialv Zou +11AI Coding AgentsAgent Harness Optimization

    Meituan · Huazhong University of Science and Technology · Peking University +4

  2. Beyond Final Scores: A Systematic Evaluation of Agents for Long-Horizon AI Research and Development

    Aug 13, 2026Yiwei Li, Wanli Yang, Hexiang Tan +10Long-Horizon Agent EvaluationAgent Harness Optimization

    1Meituan · University of Chinese Academy of Sciences

  3. Ready Cohorts: Bounding GPU Opportunity and Avoiding Host Round Trips in LLM-Agent Control

    Aug 12, 2026Josef Liyanjun ChenLLM Agent OrchestrationAgent Harness Optimization

    Independent Researcher

  4. MEGA: Self-Evolving Agent Optimization Infrastructure via Wisdom Graph

    Aug 11, 2026Jung Hwan Lee, Kyu Ho Lee, Gwang Hoon YooMulti-Agent System OptimizationAgent Harness Optimization

    Mind AI Tech Report

  5. Recovering Wasted Compute in Autoresearch Agents

    Aug 11, 2026Au Kwok Chun, Abhigyan Acherjee, Amrutha Rao +4Inference-Time SearchAgent Harness Optimization

    Department of Computer Science, Columbia University · 2AI, Analytics and Future of Work Initiative, Georgetown University · Department of Applied Mathematics, Columbia University +3

  6. SBCO: Self-Supervised, Verifier-Grounded Harness Optimization For Planning Agents

    Aug 10, 2026Vivek Kulkarni, Sudipta Paul, Aounon Kumar +2Agent Harness OptimizationSelf-Improving Agents

    Samsung Research America

  7. SHE: Trajectory-driven Safety Harness Evolution for LLM Agents

    Aug 10, 2026Wanying Qu, Qinghua Mao, Yu Li +12Agent Harness OptimizationLLM Agent Safety

    Shanghai Artificial Intelligence Laboratory · Shanghai Jiao Tong University · Fudan University +1

  8. Rethinking Self-Evolving Agents: Do We Still Need Prescribed Optimization Pipelines?

    Aug 10, 2026Hui Xue, Fan YangLarge Language Model-Guided OptimizationAgent Harness Optimization

    Microsoft Research

  9. From Prompt to Harness: Coderlet from Scratch

    Aug 10, 2026Mengfan LiCoding AgentsAgent Harness Optimization

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

    Aug 10, 2026Lisheng Huang, Chen Yang, Hao Zhou +6AI Agent EvaluationLong-Horizon Agent Evaluation

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

  11. Hierarchical Self-Improvement: A Framework for Task-Specific Evolvable Agent Harnesses

    Aug 9, 2026Tailin ZhouAgent Harness OptimizationLLM Agent Self-Improvement

    HKUST

  12. Ouroboros: A Self-Developing Frontier Coding Agent with Reviewed Core Evolution

    Aug 8, 2026Anton Razzhigaev, Andrei Gritsaev, Andrei Kaznacheev +3AI Coding AgentsAgent Harness Optimization

    1Lomonosov Moscow State University · 2Skolkovo Institute of Science and Technology · 4FusionBrain Lab at AIRI +2

  13. HarnessOpt-Bench: Evaluating LLMs at Harness Optimization

    Aug 6, 2026Varun Ursekar, Apaar Shanker, Yash Maurya +4Large Language Model-Guided OptimizationLLM Agent Evaluation

    Scale AI

  14. EvoHarness-RL: Learning Runtime Harness Coordination for Self-Evolving Agents

    Aug 5, 2026Xuying Ning, Dongqi Fu, Tianxin Wei +17Agent Harness OptimizationLong-Horizon Agent Tasks

    University of Illinois Urbana–Champaign · Meta AI

  15. EvolveNet: Collaborative Harness Evolution for Agent Self-Improvement

    Aug 5, 2026Jun Nie, Yonggang Zhang, Qianshu Cai +3Agent Harness OptimizationMulti-Agent Collaboration

    Hong Kong Baptist University · The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology · University of Science and Technology of China

  16. ADIAS: Automated Design of Interactive Agentic Systems

    Aug 3, 2026Lekang Jiang, Bohan Tang, Stephan Goetz +1Agent Harness OptimizationSelf-Improving Agents

    University of Cambridge · LIGHTSPEED · Independent Researcher

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

    Aug 3, 2026Shuai Shao, Kangning Zhang, Qingyao Li +7Agent Harness OptimizationLLM Agent Self-Improvement

    Shanghai Jiao Tong University · Xiaohongshu Inc. · Southeast University

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

    Aug 3, 2026Luan Zhang, Ruochen Zhou, Dandan Song +9Agent Harness OptimizationLLM Agents

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

  19. Learning What to Remember and What to Internalize in LLM Self-Evolution via Adaptive Memory-Parameter Coordination

    Aug 2, 2026Tianyun Ji, Zhenya Huang, Jiayu Liu +3Continual Learning for LLM AgentsAgent Harness Optimization

    University of Science and Technology of China Hefei, Anhui, China · City University of Hong Kong Hong Kong, China · Hefei Normal University Hefei, Anhui, China +1

  20. PATH-Bench: Path-Dependent Evaluation of Lifelong Agents

    Aug 2, 2026Xidong Yang, Xingyi Zhang, Wenhao Li +7Continual Learning for LLM AgentsLifelong Learning Agents

    East China Normal University · Tongji University · Ant Group +5

  21. RecHarness: A Bandit-Routed Agentic Harness for Self-Evolving Recommender Systems

    Jul 31, 2026Haoran Ling, Yuecheng Li, Zeyu Song +5Large Language Model-Guided OptimizationAgent Harness Optimization

    Georgia Institute of Technology · Kuaishou Technology, China

  22. DarwinX: Evolving Agent Harnesses Through Natural Selection

    Jul 31, 2026Yifan Zhang, Yutong Dai, Juntao Tan +9Evolutionary OptimizationAgent Harness Optimization

    1Salesforce AI Research · 2Salesforce Agentforce

  23. SKIMIX: Multi-Agent Harness-Time Scaling with Skill Mixture for Dynamic Harness Engineering

    Jul 30, 2026Jia LuoAgent Harness OptimizationMulti-Agent Collaboration

    Huazhong University of Science and Technology

  24. DREvo: Distilling Recalibrated Historical Experience for Harness Self-Evolution

    Jul 29, 2026Hanghui Guo, Weijie Shi, Zhangze Chen +6Agent Harness OptimizationLLM Agent Harnesses

    School of Computer Science and Engineering, Southeast University, China · Department of Computer Science and Engineering, Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, China · Zhejiang Key Laboratory of Intelligent Education Technology and Application, Zhejiang Normal University, China +2

  25. Living-Harness Is an Interactive-Agent Evolver

    Jul 29, 2026Yuetian Du, Yucheng Wang, He Xu +9AI Agent ReliabilityAgent Harness Optimization

    Zhejiang University · The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology · Alibaba Group +2

  26. CHILL-Harness: Counterfactual Harness Learning for Efficient Reasoning in Long-Horizon Agents

    Jul 28, 2026Jiarun Fu, Lizhong Ding, Sida Chen +6Agent Harness OptimizationLong-Horizon LLM Agents

    School of Computer Science and Technology, Beijing Institute of Technology, Beijing, China

  27. A Control System, a Dataset, and a Recipe for Making Frozen LLM Agents Learn a Domain

    Jul 28, 2026Debjyoti PaulAgent Harness OptimizationLLM Agent Training

  28. Automated Discovery Has No Universally Superior Harness

    Jul 20, 2026Akshat Gupta, Jermaine Lei, Alexander Lu +2Automated Algorithm DiscoveryAutomated Heuristic Design

    UC Berkeley · MIT, MIT-IBM Watson AI Lab

  29. Co-Harness: Co-Evolving Harnesses and Model Weights for LLM Agents

    Jul 17, 2026Zhengyu Chen, Teng Xiao, Huaisheng Zhu +3Agent Harness OptimizationLLM Agent Workflow Optimization

    Meituan · Allen Institute for AI · Independent

  30. Recursive Harness Self-Improvement

    Jul 17, 2026Hyunin Lee, Jinglue Xu, Jeffrey Seely +3Continual Learning for LLM AgentsAgent Harness Optimization

    1Sakana AI, 2UC Berkeley