TodoEvolve: Learning to Architect Agent Planning Systems

• URL: http://arxiv.org/abs/2602.07839v1
• Date: Sun, 08 Feb 2026 06:37:01 GMT
• Title: TodoEvolve: Learning to Architect Agent Planning Systems
• Abstract summary: TodoEvolve is a meta-planning paradigm that autonomously synthesizes and dynamically revises task-specific planning.<n>PlanFactory provides a common interface for heterogeneous planning patterns.<n>TodoEvolve consistently surpasses carefully engineered planning modules while maintaining economical API costs and runtime overhead.
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• License: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
• Abstract: Planning has become a central capability for contemporary agent systems in navigating complex, long-horizon tasks, yet existing approaches predominantly rely on fixed, hand-crafted planning structures that lack the flexibility to adapt to the structural diversity of open-ended problems. To address this limitation, we introduce TodoEvolve, a meta-planning paradigm that autonomously synthesizes and dynamically revises task-specific planning architectures. Specifically, we first construct PlanFactory, a modular design space that standardizes diverse planning paradigms within a unified codebase encompassing topology, initialization, adaptation, and navigation, thereby providing a common interface for heterogeneous planning patterns. Leveraging PlanFactory, we collect high-quality planning trajectories and train Todo-14B via \textit{Impedance-Guided Preference Optimization} (IGPO), a multi-objective reinforcement learning objective that encourages the generation of planning systems that are performant, stable, and token-efficient across arbitrary tasks and agent backbones. Empirical evaluations on five agentic benchmarks demonstrate that TodoEvolve consistently surpasses carefully engineered planning modules while maintaining economical API costs and runtime overhead.

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