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

Xuying Ning, Dongqi Fu, Tianxin Wei, Yuanchen Bei +16 more

Published

Aug 5, 2026

Citations

0

Trust level

Low

Usefulness score

25/100 (Low)

Extraction confidence

45% (Low)

Derived from extracted protocol signals and abstract evidence.

Rater population

Not reported

Signals refreshed

Oct 5, 2026

Should you rely on this paper?

This paper is adjacent to HFEPX scope and is best used for background context, not as a primary protocol reference.

Use this as background context only. Do not make protocol decisions from this page alone.

Best use

Background context only

Use if you need

A secondary eval reference to pair with stronger protocol papers.

What to verify

Validate the evaluation procedure and quality controls in the full paper before operational use.

Main weakness

The available metadata is too thin to trust this as a primary source.

Human feedback signal
Not explicit
Not explicit in abstract metadata
Evaluation signal
Detected
Eval setup described
Usefulness for eval research
25/100
Adjacent candidate

Treat as adjacent context, not a core eval-method reference.

Abstract

Long-horizon LLM agents increasingly rely on external execution support to maintain state, track progress, recover from failures, and reuse experience across extended interactions. Yet existing harnesses and their use are often tailored to environments and controlled through prompts, heuristics, or system-specific rules, making agent and harness coordination difficult to jointly optimize. We introduce EvoHarness-RL, a unified framework that separates environment-specific harness implementations from a shared policy-facing interface. EvoHarness-RL organizes external support into a Belief, Progress, and Experience (BPE) workspace and exposes four compact harness actions for accessing and updating this state. We first instantiate BPE as an inference-time scaffold and then make harness coordination learnable through supervised initialization followed by cost-aware GRPO. Across heterogeneous long-horizon tasks, EvoHarness-Base improves the average success rate of frontier models by 10.0 percentage points, while EvoHarness-RL outperforms the strongest open-source baseline by 8.5 percentage points, together with higher RL rollout efficiency and stronger generalization to unseen tasks. Our analyses show that training gradually shifts agents from frequent scaffold use toward selective, environment-dependent harness access as the policy becomes more capable, while the external workspace continues to evolve and refine itself to better support task execution and generalization. Together, these results show that long-horizon agents benefit not only from external scaffolding itself, but also from learning how and when to coordinate with external support as part of a cost-aware policy.

What we could verify

These are the protocol signals we could actually recover from the available paper metadata. Use them to decide whether this paper is worth deeper reading.

Human Feedback Types

missing

None explicit

No explicit feedback protocol extracted.

"Long-horizon LLM agents increasingly rely on external execution support to maintain state, track progress, recover from failures, and reuse experience across extended interactions."

Evaluation Modes

partial

Automatic Metrics

Includes extracted eval setup.

"Long-horizon LLM agents increasingly rely on external execution support to maintain state, track progress, recover from failures, and reuse experience across extended interactions."

Quality Controls

missing

Not reported

No explicit QC controls found.

"Long-horizon LLM agents increasingly rely on external execution support to maintain state, track progress, recover from failures, and reuse experience across extended interactions."

Benchmarks / Datasets

missing

Not extracted

No benchmark anchors detected.

"Long-horizon LLM agents increasingly rely on external execution support to maintain state, track progress, recover from failures, and reuse experience across extended interactions."

Reported Metrics

partial

Success rate

Useful for evaluation criteria comparison.

"Across heterogeneous long-horizon tasks, EvoHarness-Base improves the average success rate of frontier models by 10.0 percentage points, while EvoHarness-RL outperforms the strongest open-source baseline by 8.5 percentage points, together with higher RL rollout efficiency and stronger generalization to unseen tasks."

Benchmarks and datasets

No benchmark or dataset names were extracted from the available abstract.

Reported metrics

success rate
Human feedback details
Uses human feedback
No
Feedback types
None
Rater population
Not reported
Unit of annotation
Trajectory (inferred)
Expertise required
General
Evaluation details
Evaluation modes
Automatic Metrics
Agentic eval
Long Horizon
Quality controls
Not reported
Evidence quality
Low
Use this page as
Background context only

Research brief

Metadata summary

Long-horizon LLM agents increasingly rely on external execution support to maintain state, track progress, recover from failures, and reuse experience across extended interactions.

Based on abstract + metadata only. Check the source paper before making high-confidence protocol decisions.

Key takeaways

  • Long-horizon LLM agents increasingly rely on external execution support to maintain state, track progress, recover from failures, and reuse experience across extended interactions.
  • Yet existing harnesses and their use are often tailored to environments and controlled through prompts, heuristics, or system-specific rules, making agent and harness coordination difficult to jointly optimize.
  • We introduce EvoHarness-RL, a unified framework that separates environment-specific harness implementations from a shared policy-facing interface.

Researcher actions

  • Compare this paper against nearby papers in the same arXiv category before using it for protocol decisions.
  • Validate inferred eval signals (Simulation environment, Long-horizon tasks) against the full paper.
  • Use related-paper links to find stronger protocol-specific references.

Caveats

  • Generated from abstract + metadata only; no PDF parsing.
  • Signals below are heuristic and may miss details reported outside the abstract.

Recommended queries

Contribution summary

  • Long-horizon LLM agents increasingly rely on external execution support to maintain state, track progress, recover from failures, and reuse experience across extended interactions.
  • Yet existing harnesses and their use are often tailored to environments and controlled through prompts, heuristics, or system-specific rules, making agent and harness coordination difficult to jointly optimize.
  • We introduce EvoHarness-RL, a unified framework that separates environment-specific harness implementations from a shared policy-facing interface.

Why it matters for eval

  • Long-horizon LLM agents increasingly rely on external execution support to maintain state, track progress, recover from failures, and reuse experience across extended interactions.
  • Yet existing harnesses and their use are often tailored to environments and controlled through prompts, heuristics, or system-specific rules, making agent and harness coordination difficult to jointly optimize.

Researcher checklist

  • Human feedback protocol is explicit

    No explicit human feedback protocol detected.

  • Evaluation mode is explicit

    Detected: Automatic Metrics

  • Quality control reporting appears

    No calibration/adjudication/IAA control explicitly detected.

  • Benchmark or dataset anchors are present

    No benchmark/dataset anchor extracted from abstract.

  • Metric reporting is present

    Detected: success rate