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Verify Smarter, Evolve Further: Efficient Harness Evolution through Behavior-Aware Verification

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TL;DR - HarnessLens is a budget-aware framework that evolves agent harnesses while selectively testing candidate changes on behavior-relevant tasks. It improves held-out performance by 7.6–13.6% across multiple harnesses and benchmarks while using substantially less evaluation budget than competing methods.

  • Jointly explores task space and user-configurable harness components.
  • Proposes modifications based on agent execution trajectories.
  • Uses an attributable-evidence gate to target verification and detect behavior-specific regressions.
  • Evaluated on three agent harnesses and four benchmarks under constrained interaction budgets.

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Verify Smarter, Evolve Further: Efficient Harness Evolution through Behavior-Aware Verification

arXiv cs.AI Jinghan Xu, Yikai Zhang, Aili Chen, Weiyuan Li, Jiaqing Liang, Deqing Yang 2026-08-27 arXiv:2608.27311
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TL;DR - HarnessLens is a budget-aware framework that evolves agent harnesses while selectively testing candidate changes on behavior-relevant tasks. It improves held-out performance by 7.6–13.6% across multiple harnesses and benchmarks while using substantially less evaluation budget than competing methods.

  • Jointly explores task space and user-configurable harness components.
  • Proposes modifications based on agent execution trajectories.
  • Uses an attributable-evidence gate to target verification and detect behavior-specific regressions.
  • Evaluated on three agent harnesses and four benchmarks under constrained interaction budgets.
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