Adaptive Auto-Harness: Sustained Self-Improvement for Agentic System Deployment on Open-Ended Task Streams
arxiv:2606.01770
Harness · 2026-06-01
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Contents
- Adaptive Auto-Harness: Sustained Self-Improvement for Agentic System Deployment on Open-Ended Task Streams
- Abstract
- 1 Introduction
- 2 Related Work
- 3 Method
- 3.1 Problem Formulation
- 3.2 Analytical Framework
- Proposition 1 (Regret Decomposition) .
- 3.3 Sustained Auto-Harness via Multi-Agent Evolution
- 3.4 Solve-Time Adaptation via Harness-Tree Routing
- 3.5 Human-in-the-Loop Channel
- 4 Experiments
- 4.1 Experimental Setup
- 4.2 Comparison with Baselines
- 4.3 Benchmark Bottlenecks
- 4.4 Stateful Multi-Agent Evolution
- 4.5 Solve-Time Routing on the Harness Tree
- 4.6 Human Steering for Auto-Harnessing
- 5 Conclusions
- 6 Limitations
- 7 Ethics Statement
- 8 AI Usage Statement
- Appendix A Benchmark and Evaluation Details
- A.1 PolyBench
- A.2 CTF-Dojo
- A.3 FutureX
- Appendix B Implementation and Reproducibility Details
- Appendix C Benchmark Non-Stationarity Diagnostics
- Appendix D Further Experiments
- Appendix E Per-Domain and Per-Category Breakdowns
- Appendix F Multi-Agent Evolution Dynamics
- Appendix G Routing Behaviour and Branch Performance
- Appendix H Human-in-the-Loop Event Log
- Appendix I Run-Detail Analysis
- Appendix J System Prompts
- Instructions for reporting errors