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Self-Evolving Agent Harnesses via Gated Semantic Quality-Diversity

An LLM agent's real-task performance is shaped as much by the harness around its model as by the frozen model itself: its prompts, injected knowledge, runtime control, and configuration. In deployment the harness is often the only lever ava

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