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CoEvo-RSI: When Harnesses Evolve, Which Models Should Follow?

Jiaqi Su, Guibin Zhang, Jie-Jing Shao, Cong Pang +4 more

Published

Oct 18, 2026

Citations

0

Trust level

Moderate

Usefulness score

25/100 (Low)

Extraction confidence

55% (Moderate)

Derived from extracted protocol signals and abstract evidence.

Rater population

Not reported

Signals refreshed

Oct 18, 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 for comparison and orientation, not as your only source.

Best use

Background context only

Use if you need

A benchmark-and-metrics comparison anchor.

What to verify

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

Main weakness

No major weakness surfaced.

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

Model--harness co-evolution has emerged as a prominent paradigm for recursive self-improving (RSI) agents, jointly evolving their execution scaffolds and intrinsic capabilities. We study the persistent yet often overlooked brain--body mismatch problem in this paradigm, where an evolving harness (body) demands behaviors its model (brain) has not learned or restricts capabilities it already possesses. We introduce CoEvo-RSI, a RSI framework that advances model--harness co-evolution through agent-driven, bidirectional historical inheritance. Drawing on a shared evolutionary archive and execution feedback, a meta-agent coordinates harness development from historical designs with model checkpoint selection or merging and subsequent adaptation under the selected harness, aligning inherited capabilities with evolving execution requirements to reduce brain--body mismatch. Using only supervised fine-tuning (SFT) on its own rejection-sampled trajectories, CoEvo-RSI makes Qwen3.5-9B competitive with larger models across diverse vertical applications, including multi-agent failure attribution, role-aware text-to-SQL, and smart-home instruction following. It surpasses DeepSeek-V4-Pro on TraceElephant (+14.16 agent accuracy) and GLM-5.3 on HomeBench VM (+4.90 success rate), underscoring the need for brain--body alignment and the potential of bidirectional historical inheritance to advance agent co-evolution.

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.

"Model--harness co-evolution has emerged as a prominent paradigm for recursive self-improving (RSI) agents, jointly evolving their execution scaffolds and intrinsic capabilities."

Evaluation Modes

strong

Automatic Metrics

Includes extracted eval setup.

"Model--harness co-evolution has emerged as a prominent paradigm for recursive self-improving (RSI) agents, jointly evolving their execution scaffolds and intrinsic capabilities."

Quality Controls

missing

Not reported

No explicit QC controls found.

"Model--harness co-evolution has emerged as a prominent paradigm for recursive self-improving (RSI) agents, jointly evolving their execution scaffolds and intrinsic capabilities."

Benchmarks / Datasets

strong

Homebench

Useful for quick benchmark comparison.

"It surpasses DeepSeek-V4-Pro on TraceElephant (+14.16 agent accuracy) and GLM-5.3 on HomeBench VM (+4.90 success rate), underscoring the need for brain--body alignment and the potential of bidirectional historical inheritance to advance agent co-evolution."

Reported Metrics

strong

Accuracy, Success rate

Useful for evaluation criteria comparison.

"It surpasses DeepSeek-V4-Pro on TraceElephant (+14.16 agent accuracy) and GLM-5.3 on HomeBench VM (+4.90 success rate), underscoring the need for brain--body alignment and the potential of bidirectional historical inheritance to advance agent co-evolution."

Benchmarks and datasets

Homebench

Reported metrics

accuracysuccess rate
Human feedback details
Uses human feedback
No
Feedback types
None
Rater population
Not reported
Expertise required
General
Evaluation details
Evaluation modes
Automatic Metrics
Agentic eval
Multi Agent
Quality controls
Not reported
Evidence quality
Moderate
Use this page as
Background context only

Research brief

Metadata summary

Model--harness co-evolution has emerged as a prominent paradigm for recursive self-improving (RSI) agents, jointly evolving their execution scaffolds and intrinsic capabilities.

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

Key takeaways

  • Model--harness co-evolution has emerged as a prominent paradigm for recursive self-improving (RSI) agents, jointly evolving their execution scaffolds and intrinsic capabilities.
  • We study the persistent yet often overlooked brain--body mismatch problem in this paradigm, where an evolving harness (body) demands behaviors its model (brain) has not learned or restricts capabilities it already possesses.
  • We introduce CoEvo-RSI, a RSI framework that advances model--harness co-evolution through agent-driven, bidirectional historical inheritance.

Researcher actions

  • Compare this paper against nearby papers in the same arXiv category before using it for protocol decisions.
  • Validate inferred eval signals (Automatic metrics) 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

  • Model--harness co-evolution has emerged as a prominent paradigm for recursive self-improving (RSI) agents, jointly evolving their execution scaffolds and intrinsic capabilities.
  • We introduce CoEvo-RSI, a RSI framework that advances model--harness co-evolution through agent-driven, bidirectional historical inheritance.
  • It surpasses DeepSeek-V4-Pro on TraceElephant (+14.16 agent accuracy) and GLM-5.3 on HomeBench VM (+4.90 success rate), underscoring the need for brain--body alignment and the potential of bidirectional historical inheritance to advance…

Why it matters for eval

  • We introduce CoEvo-RSI, a RSI framework that advances model--harness co-evolution through agent-driven, bidirectional historical inheritance.
  • It surpasses DeepSeek-V4-Pro on TraceElephant (+14.16 agent accuracy) and GLM-5.3 on HomeBench VM (+4.90 success rate), underscoring the need for brain--body alignment and the potential of bidirectional historical inheritance to advance…

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

    Detected: Homebench

  • Metric reporting is present

    Detected: accuracy, success rate