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When the Critic Falls Behind: Co-Evolving Rubrics and Harnesses for Continual Agent Self-Improvement
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Autonomous agents increasingly depend on harnesses that govern interaction, memory, tools, and execution around large language models (LLMs). While recent work has begun to evolve these harnesses from execution experience, the supervision used to guide evolution often remains relatively static, making it difficult to track changing behavioral weaknesses across rounds and potentially limiting generalization to unseen tasks. To address this issue, we propose RuHarness, a rubric--harness co-evolution framework for continual agent self-improvement. RuHarness continually discovers and reassesses behavioral criteria from execution trajectories, prioritizes the most relevant unresolved weaknesses, and uses them to guide targeted harness updates while keeping the task objective fixed. Extensive experiments across diverse agent tasks and backbone models show that RuHarness outperforms strong harness-evolution baselines, particularly on unseen held-out tasks. Further analyses show that adaptive rubric prioritization tracks shifting weaknesses and supports more sustained improvement and stable generalization across evolution rounds.
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When the Critic Falls Behind: Co-Evolving Rubrics and Harnesses for Continual Agent Self-Improvement
Autonomous agents increasingly depend on harnesses that govern interaction, memory, tools, and execution around large language models (LLMs). While recent work has begun to evolve these harnesses from execution experience, the supervision used to guide evolution often remains relatively static, making it difficult to track changing behavioral weaknesses across rounds and potentially limiting generalization to unseen tasks. To address this issue, we propose RuHarness, a rubric--harness co-evolution framework for continual agent self-improvement. RuHarness continually discovers and reassesses behavioral criteria from execution trajectories, prioritizes the most relevant unresolved weaknesses, and uses them to guide targeted harness updates while keeping the task objective fixed. Extensive experiments across diverse agent tasks and backbone models show that RuHarness outperforms strong harness-evolution baselines, particularly on unseen held-out tasks. Further analyses show that adaptive rubric prioritization tracks shifting weaknesses and supports more sustained improvement and stable generalization across evolution rounds.
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