2 papers
cs.AI2026
HarnessOpt-Bench: Evaluating LLMs at Harness Optimization
Varun Ursekar, Apaar Shanker, Yash Maurya +4
As LLMs are increasingly deployed within agentic systems, their capabilities depend not only on the model weights but also on the harness: the prompts, tools, control flow, memory,…
cs.AI2026
VeRO: A Harness for Agents to Optimize Agents
Varun Ursekar, Apaar Shanker, Veronica Chatrath +2
An important emerging application of coding agents is agent harness optimization: the iterative improvement of a target agent by editing and evaluating its code. Despite its releva…