Researchers propose Living-Harness, a self-evolving agent harness that converts completed trajectories and evaluator signals into posterior evidence for bounded harness updates. Guided by an Evolution-SOP, the system extracts episode abstractions and structured update evidence to write episodic memory and state graphs.
- Living-Harness records trigger conditions, failure patterns, and recovery actions as episodic memory.
- It maintains a state graph of nodes, repair edges, and transition rules for procedural repairs.
- The updated harness state is retrieved to guide future interactions while tools and base context remain frozen.
- On eight interactive environments derived from τ²-Bench and MultiWOZ-2.4, it improves average Pass@1 over the strongest baseline by 10.07 and 9.91 percentage points respectively.
The evolved harness state supports retrieval-only reuse across model backbones, allowing procedural repairs to accumulate across evolution cycles.