Terminal-RSI: Recursive Self-Improving Terminal Agents via Recursive Self-Rewrite and Policy-Refine
Junyao Yang, Zongxia Li, Yucheng Shi*, Zhongzhi Li, Ruhan Wang, Ruiwen Zhou, Haitao Mi, Shuicheng Yan†, Leowei Liang
- Equal contribution · † Corresponding author

Alternating verified trajectory rewriting with critic-inheriting policy refinement, using turn-boundary credit assignment and stage-specific rewards to advance terminal agents from partial progress to strict task completion. Terminal-RSI-27B achieves 19.84% on Terminal-Bench 4.0 and 86.52% on Terminal-Bench 2.1.
