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Co-Evolution in Agentic Systems: Toward Self-Directed Evolution Beyond Human Design

URL: http://arxiv.org/abs/2608.10299v1
Date: Mon, 10 Aug 2026 23:10:40 GMT
Title: Co-Evolution in Agentic Systems: Toward Self-Directed Evolution Beyond Human Design
Abstract summary: This survey focuses on co-evolution in agentic systems, a multi-component form of self-evolution in which multiple agents and their environment impose adaptive pressure on one another.<n>To organize existing papers, we propose a progressive three-stage taxonomy that traces how the system gradually sheds human-engineered constraints.
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Abstract: Agentic systems are increasingly expected to improve after deployment, yet single-entity self-evolution is often bounded by a static learning context, such as fixed tasks and feedback. This survey focuses on co-evolution in agentic systems, a multi-component form of self-evolution in which multiple agents and their environment impose adaptive pressure on one another. To organize existing papers, we propose a progressive three-stage taxonomy that traces how the system gradually sheds human-engineered constraints. Agent--Agent Co-Evolution studies how agents adapt through dynamic peers, including adversarial, collaborative, and organizational adaptation. Agent--Environment Co-Evolution extends this loop to adaptive tasks, feedback, and interaction spaces that change with the agents. Meta Co-Evolution further explores the possibility of making the evolution mechanism itself evolvable. We also discuss open challenges in evaluating such systems, scaling them across multiple components, and keeping increasingly autonomous evolutionary processes safe and controllable. This survey provides a unified foundation for building robust and open-ended agentic systems that can improve beyond fixed human-designed paths.

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