Harness Self-Evolution for Long-Horizon Terminal Agents

Ruhan Wang, Yucheng Shi‡, Zongxia Li, Junyao Yang, Zhongzhi Li, Yue Yu, Haitao Mi, Dongruo Zhou, Leowei Liang

‡ Internship mentor (marked † in the source paper) · Work conducted during an internship at Tencent

RiseHarness workflow for runtime monitoring, behavioral diagnosis, external research and harness evolution

RiseHarness iteratively improves agent harnesses while keeping model weights fixed. Successful and failed trajectories, internal execution traces, and a Harness Handbook guide behavior-level edits that are validated through repeated task evaluation.

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