The paper introduces AutoDesign, a framework that employs a meta-harness optimizer to guide a code agent in recursively improving its harness based on rollout feedback. This approach aims to align with human design priors and accumulate reusable experience for recursive self-improvement.

  • Evaluated on PosterBench, AutoDesign achieves a score of 78.32, surpassing Claude Design by 7.45 points.
  • Integrating the learned DesignHarness increases the average PosterBench Score from 54.99 to 67.39 (+12.4%).
  • The system executes 253 tool calls and 11 editing turns within 40 minutes for under $3.
  • A human study demonstrates that AutoDesign achieves the highest human preference among evaluated systems.

The authors consider this important as it transforms multimodal sources into structured outputs through a long-horizon agentic process, achieving conference-poster quality autonomously.