Can LLMs Engineer Their Own Agent Harness? ByteDance Seed’s HarnessDev Says Only 34 of 64 Changes Generalize
An agent harness is the code around a model: execution loop, tools, context, state, recovery, and verification. Per the Terminal-Bench 2.1 leaderboard, GPT-5 solves 35.2% of tasks inside Terminus 2 but 49.6% inside Codex CLI with identical weights. Most benchmarks keep that harness fixed. HarnessDev proposed by team of researchers from ByteDance Seed, Singapore University
