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Jun-Yao Yang

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#artificial intelligence Preprint Sep 2026

T1: Terminal Agent Reinforcement Learning for Long-Horizon Tasks

Agent usage is shifting toward long-horizon tasks such as coding and scientific discovery, among which terminal tasks are especially important. We introduce T1, a Mixture-of-Experts model of 122B total trained with reinforcement learning, operating a real shell in a cloud sandbox for up to 300+ tool-call turns per task, rewarded by executing each task's own verifier. We provide a comprehensive recipe: First, an aggressively warm-started to stabilize actor-critic training, with a dense process reward scoring trajectories by the absolute number of passing verifiers. Second, stable optimization through TITO construction, training on the exact sampled token identifiers with drift repair at turn boundaries, and rollout routing replay, recording the sampler's per-token expert choices at every MoE layer and replaying them during training. Third, fully out-of-distribution training corpus: isolated seeds and synthesized tasks disjoint from Terminal-Bench 2.1 ensures gains reflect genuine capability transfer over benchmark overfitting. Together, TITO and R3 cut the training-to-inference log-probability difference from 0.021 to 0.013, with exactly aligned zero token drift in the loss region. On Terminal-Bench 2.1, our post-train pipeline raises initial base model from 43.8% to T1 with 64.0% resolved. On Long-Horizon Terminal Bench, T1 reaches 27.9% and surpasses GPT-5.4 and GLM-5.1.

Jun-Yao Yang, Yucheng Shi, Zhongzhi Li et al. · 0 citations
Preprint Aug 2026

Recursive Synthesis for Long-Horizon Terminal Tasks

Recursive Synthetic Terminal Tasks (RST) is presented, a recursive verified synthesis framework for constructing long-horizon terminal-agent tasks at scale and shows no ceiling, indicating that the process can continue well beyond the scale reported here.

Zhongzhi Li, Yucheng Shi, Zongxia Li et al. · 5 citations
Jul 2026

Long-Horizon-Terminal-Bench: Testing the Limits of Agents on Long-Horizon Terminal Tasks with Dense Reward-Based Grading

This work introduces Long-Horizon-Terminal-Bench, a terminal benchmark of 46 long-horizon tasks spanning nine categories, including experiment reproduction, software engineering, multimodal analysis, interactive games, and scientific computing, and analyzes failure modes and error patterns to support future progress on long-horizon terminal agents.

Zongxia Li, Zhongzhi Li, Yucheng Shi et al. · 11 citations · ⚡2
Preprint Jul 2026

Harness Handbook: Making Evolving Agent Harnesses Readable,Navigable, and Editable

The capability of a modern AI agent depends not only on its foundation model but also on its harness, which constructs prompts, manages state, invokes tools, and coordinates execution. As models, APIs, environments, and requirements evolve, the harness must be continually modified. Before such a change can be made, a developer or coding agent must identify all code locations that implement the target behavior. This is difficult because production harnesses are large, tightly coupled, and behaviorally distributed, while modification requests describe what the system should do and repositories are organized by files and modules. Code search, repository indexing, and long-context processing ease inspection, but still leave this behavior-to-code mapping to be recovered by hand. Behavior localization is therefore a central bottleneck in harness evolution. We introduce the Harness Handbook, a behavior-centric representation synthesized automatically from a harness codebase via static analysis and LLM-assisted structuring, linking each behavior to its corresponding source. We also introduce Behavior-Guided Progressive Disclosure (BGPD), which guides agents from high-level behaviors to relevant implementation details and verifies candidate locations against the current source. On diverse modification requests from two open-source harnesses, Handbook-Assisted planning improves behavior localization and edit-plan quality while using fewer planner tokens, with the largest gains on scattered sites, rarely executed paths, and cross-module interactions. Evolving complex agentic systems thus depends not only on generating edits, but also on determining where those edits should be made.

Ruhan Wang, Yucheng Shi, Zongxia Li et al. · 7 citations

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