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EnvHarness: Awakening Static Worlds for Agent Learning

arXiv cs.AI LLM Agents Chengsong Huang, Zifeng Wang, Rujun Han, Jun Yan, Yanfei Chen, Zoey CuiZhu, Ke Jiang, Peng Xia, Han Yu, Yufan Zhuang, Yifei Ming, Jiaqi Pan, Bhavana Dalvi Mishra, Jiaxin Huang, Burak Gokturk, Tomas Pfister, Chen-Yu Lee 2026-08-20
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TL;DR - EnvHarness is a programmable wrapper that dynamically reshapes static agent-learning environments without altering their underlying logic or verifiers. Its automated EnvRigger system diagnoses policy weaknesses from execution trajectories and generates targeted components, improving both evaluation performance and reinforcement-learning signals.

  • Uses plug-in components and standard interfaces to adapt environments across multiple domains while preserving original verifiers.
  • Treats the target policy as a black box, synthesizing modifications from observed trajectories and validating them with fresh rollouts.
  • Across five benchmarks in four domains, achieved up to a 9.0-point improvement on held-out instances while using 9.8% fewer execution steps.
  • Supports continuous co-evolution of an agent policy and its training environment through targeted reinforcement-learning feedback.

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