The authors present JIT-Agent, a harness intelligence model trained to synthesize task-adaptive agent harnesses for arbitrary off-the-shelf agentic LLMs. This approach formalizes the agent harness as a composable artifact governed by a fixed four-module protocol, allowing the system to customize and repair harnesses on the fly.

  • JIT-Agent distills performance signals from an expanding archive of prior configurations to self-evolve its strategies.
  • DeepSeek-V4-Flash surpasses GPT-5.6 on DeepSearchQA (+9.1) and OdysseyBench (+4.3) when equipped with JIT-Agent.
  • The GLM-5.2 model gains up to +20.2 points in performance improvements.
  • Generated harnesses are competitive with mature agent runtimes like OpenCode and Claude Code.
  • The method consistently improves multi-scale model families including DeepSeek V4, Mimo-V2.5, and Qwen3.6.

JIT-Agent establishes harness intelligence as a trainable, transferable, and compounding dimension of agent capability that is orthogonal to model scaling.