arxiv:2603.25723

Natural-Language Agent Harnesses

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Zou Lexiao on Mar 30

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Natural-Language Agent Harnesses and Intelligent Harness Runtime enable portable, executable agent harness design through natural language specification and shared runtime execution.

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Agent performance increasingly depends on harness engineering, yet harness design is usually buried in controller code and runtime-specific conventions, making it hard to transfer, compare, and study as a scientific object. We ask whether the high-level control logic of an agent harness can instead be externalized as a portable executable artifact. We introduce Natural-Language Agent Harnesses (NLAHs), which express harness behavior in editable natural language, and Intelligent Harness Runtime (IHR), a shared runtime that executes these harnesses through explicit contracts, durable artifacts, and lightweight adapters. Across coding and computer-use benchmarks, we conduct controlled evaluations of operational viability, module ablation, and code-to-text harness migration.

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Agent performance increasingly depends onharness engineering, yet harness design is usually buried in controller code and runtimespecific conventions, making it hard to transfer, compare, and study as a scientific object. We ask whether the high-level control logic of an agent harness can instead be externalized as a portable executable artifact. We introduce Natural-Language Agent Harnesses (NLAHs), which express harness behavior in editable natural language, and Intelligent Harness Runtime (IHR), a shared runtime that executes these harnesses through explicit contracts, durable artifacts, and lightweight adapters. Across coding and computer-use benchmarks, we conduct controlled evaluations of operational viability, module ablation, and code-to-text harness migration.

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