Adaptive Auto-Harness: Sustained Self-Improvement for Agentic System Deployment on Open-Ended Task Streams

• URL: http://arxiv.org/abs/2606.01770v2
• Date: Wed, 03 Jun 2026 05:59:44 GMT
• Title: Adaptive Auto-Harness: Sustained Self-Improvement for Agentic System Deployment on Open-Ended Task Streams
• Abstract summary: We introduce Adaptive Auto-Harness, a framework and system for such streams.<n>It decomposes the gap to an oracle harness into evolution loss and adaptation loss.<n>It outperforms five existing auto-harness baselines across prediction-market, security-competition, and event-forecasting streams.
• Score: 41.672123164003814
• License: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
• Abstract: Auto-harness systems such as A-Evolve, GEPA, and Meta-Harness improve LLM agents by optimizing prompts, skills, tools, memories, and supporting infrastructure from execution feedback, but they are typically evaluated on fixed offline benchmarks. Real deployments instead present open-ended task streams: histories grow without a fixed endpoint, heterogeneous tasks require different harnesses, and problem distributions shift over time. These challenges make a single repeatedly and densely updated harness brittle, causing performance degradation as accuracy peaks early and then declines. This motivates sustained harness construction with task-wise adaptation. We introduce Adaptive Auto-Harness, a framework and system for such streams. The framework decomposes the gap to an oracle harness into evolution loss and adaptation loss. The system addresses these losses with a stateful multi-agent evolver, a harness tree with solve-time routing, and human-steering hooks for cases where history lacks the needed signal. Across prediction-market, security-competition, and event-forecasting streams, Adaptive Auto-Harness outperforms five existing auto-harness baselines and ablations attribute gains to better construction, routing, or targeted human steering. Code is available in \href{https://github.com/A-EVO-Lab/a-evolve/tree/release/adaptive-auto-harness}{Link}.

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