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Jul 2026
Don't Blame the Large Language Model: How Agent Harness Evolution Shapes Coding Agent Quality
This paper empirically study the development and release evolution of five major open-source agent harnesses, revealing extreme release velocities exceeding two releases per day and thousands of issues within months, and performs the first controlled longitudinal study that isolates the agent harness contribution.
O. Sghaier, Hao Li, Bram Adams et al.
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