4 papers
A Theory of Reliable Self-Evolution for Agent Harnesses
Qianshu Cai, Yonggang Zhang, Jun Nie +6
In harness self-evolution, agents modify their own prompts, code, tools, and orchestration while keeping the underlying language model fixed. Recent work has shown that agents can…
EvolveNet: Collaborative Harness Evolution for Agent Self-Improvement
Jun Nie, Yonggang Zhang, Qianshu Cai +3
An LLM agent can acquire persistent improvements by evolving its harness---the executable program governing model calls, tool use, verification, and recovery---without updating mod…
TTHE: Test-Time Harness Evolution
Jun Nie, Yonggang Zhang, Jun Song +5
The behavior of an LLM agent is determined not only by the underlying model, but also by its harness: the executable program that constructs context, invokes tools, verifies interm…
MOSS: Self-Evolution through Source-Level Rewriting in Autonomous Agent Systems
Qianshu Cai, Yonggang Zhang, Xianzhang Jia +5
Autonomous agentic systems are largely static after deployment: they do not learn from user interactions, and recurring failures persist until the next human-driven update ships a…