New paper formalizes rules for self-evolving agent harnesses

A new arXiv paper formalizes self-evolving agent harnesses, where agents rewrite their own prompts, memory, tools, and surrounding code. It proposes that modifications must be validated on independent new tasks before being kept, as bad edits risk overfitting, erasing old skills, or spreading to other users.

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