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arxiv: 2605.00663 · v2 · submitted 2026-05-01 · 💻 cs.RO · cs.CV

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Affordance Agent Harness: Verification-Gated Skill Orchestration

Haojian Huang , Jiahao Shi , Yinchuan Li , Yingcong Chen
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keywords affordance groundingskill orchestrationverification gatingagent harnessopen-world scenesevidence sufficiencyself-consistencyrobotics perception
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A verification-gated harness for affordance agents achieves better grounding accuracy at lower computational cost than fixed skill pipelines.

A machine-rendered reading of the paper's core claim, the machinery that carries it, and where it could break.

Affordance grounding in open scenes must locate actionable regions that are often small, occluded, or ambiguous, yet most current systems chain multiple skills in rigid pipelines that ignore per-instance difficulty and lack targeted recovery. The paper introduces a closed-loop runtime called the Affordance Agent Harness that maintains an evidence store, retrieves episodic memories for recurring objects, and routes skill selection and parameterization through an adaptive Router. An affordance-specific Verifier then evaluates self-consistency, cross-scale stability, and evidence sufficiency to gate commitments or trigger focused retries before a final judge fuses trajectories into the output. Experiments across multiple benchmarks and difficulty-controlled subsets show this produces a stronger accuracy-cost Pareto frontier than fixed baselines while cutting average skill calls and latency. A sympathetic reader would care because the approach directly tackles the test-time systems problem of acquiring reliable evidence under bounded cost without access to labels.

Core claim

The Affordance Agent Harness unifies heterogeneous skills through an evidence store and cost control, retrieves episodic memories for recurring categories, and employs a Router to adaptively select and parameterize skills. An affordance-specific Verifier gates commitments using self-consistency, cross-scale stability, and evidence sufficiency, triggering targeted retries before a final judge fuses accumulated evidence and trajectories into the prediction. Experiments on multiple affordance benchmarks and difficulty-controlled subsets show a stronger accuracy-cost Pareto frontier than fixed-pipeline baselines, improving grounding quality while reducing average skill calls and latency.

What carries the argument

The Affordance Agent Harness, a closed-loop runtime that integrates heterogeneous skills via an evidence store, an adaptive Router for skill selection, and a Verifier that gates commitments on self-consistency, cross-scale stability, and evidence sufficiency metrics.

Load-bearing premise

The self-consistency, cross-scale stability, and evidence sufficiency metrics can reliably gate commitments and trigger useful retries in open-world scenes without any ground-truth labels available at test time.

What would settle it

Running the harness on a new benchmark subset containing highly ambiguous, occluded, or reflective affordances where the verifier produces no accuracy gain or fails to reduce unnecessary skill calls relative to a fixed pipeline would falsify the central claim.

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Figure 1. Figure 1: Comparison between a prior affor￾dance agent with a fixed reasoning graph and our A-Harness–enabled agent. While prior systems execute skills along a prede￾fined script with late fusion and no com￾mitment gating, A-Harness introduces a context-aware, budgeted closed-loop run￾time with adaptive routing, verification￾driven retries, and persistent memory for reusable experience. Together, these limitations r… view at source ↗
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Figure 2. Figure 2: Illustration of heterogeneous skills that generate complementary visual and semantic evidence. Web search can retrieve both textual guidance and paired images when available (i.e. case(2)), enriching the visual context for affordance reasoning. (see view at source ↗
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Figure 3. Figure 3: Overview of the A-Harness framework, illustrating iterative decision-making. The Verifier dynamically assesses evidence, guiding the Router to either re-plan or output results, while storing the trajectory in memory. The skill outcome ot is stored in the evidence store and combined with existing evidence to support the next step. evidence fusion [24]. The evidence store Et addresses this by tagging every i… view at source ↗
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Figure 4. Figure 4: Skill usage analysis on 3DOI (top) and UMD (bottom). Bars show average skill invocations per sample in early, middle, and late thirds of inference. A detailed efficiency comparison against fixed-pipeline baselines is in Appendix B.2. without conflict resolution, additional evidence sources introduce noise that out￾weighs their benefit. Among memory components, MT T has the largest impact via adaptive trans… view at source ↗
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Figure 5. Figure 5: Sensitivity analysis of the common-sense bank on ReasonAff and UMD datasets. (a)(b) Performance under different numbers of categories. (c)(d) Performance under different numbers of samples per category. 4.4 Further analysis We next analyze how skill usage evolves, how the common-sense bank scales, and how the source/difficulty of MCS affects cross-domain transfer. Unless otherwise stated, these experiments… view at source ↗
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Figure 6. Figure 6: The first page of the system prompt view at source ↗
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Figure 7. Figure 7: The second page of the system prompt view at source ↗
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Figure 8. Figure 8: The third page of the system prompt view at source ↗
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Figure 9. Figure 9: The fourth page of the system prompt view at source ↗
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Figure 10. Figure 10: The fifth page of the system prompt view at source ↗
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Figure 11. Figure 11: The sixth page of the system prompt view at source ↗
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Figure 12. Figure 12: The first page of the prompt for detection model view at source ↗
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Figure 13. Figure 13: The second page of the prompt for detection model view at source ↗
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Figure 14. Figure 14: The prompt for interaction imagination view at source ↗
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Figure 15. Figure 15: Sensitivity of episodic memory capacity Ctt on (a) ReasonAff and (b) UMD. Bars show gIoU and cIoU in % (left axis); the line shows average input-token consump￾tion per sample (right axis). All runs use GPT-4o as the decision brain. our approach offers a better accuracy–efficiency trade-off than fixed pipelines, including prior affordance agents such as A4-Agent. Sensitivity analysis on Ctt. As illustrated in view at source ↗
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Figure 16. Figure 16: Sensitivity analysis of commitment gating thresholds on ReasonAff and UMD. (a) gIoU and cIoU vs. average skill calls per sample under varying δ ∈ {0.4, 0.5, 0.6, 0.7, 0.8, 0.9} (left to right along each curve), with ω fixed at 0.5. Each marker corresponds to one δ setting; the circled marker denotes the default δ=0.8. (b) gIoU and cIoU under varying consistency floor ω ∈ {0.3, 0.4, 0.5, 0.6, 0.7}, with δ … view at source ↗
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Figure 17. Figure 17: The first page of the intermediate results of case 1 view at source ↗
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Figure 18. Figure 18: The second page of the intermediate results of case 1 view at source ↗
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Figure 19. Figure 19: The first page of the intermediate results of case 2 view at source ↗
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Figure 20. Figure 20: The second page of the intermediate results of case 2 view at source ↗
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Figure 21. Figure 21: The first page of the intermediate results of case 3 view at source ↗
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Figure 22. Figure 22: The second page of the intermediate results of case 3 view at source ↗
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Affordance grounding requires identifying where and how an agent should interact in open-world scenes, where actionable regions are often small, occluded, reflective, and visually ambiguous. Recent systems therefore combine multiple skills (e.g., detection, segmentation, interaction-imagination), yet most orchestrate them with fixed pipelines that are poorly matched to per-instance difficulty, offer limited targeted recovery from intermediate errors, and fail to reuse experience from recurring objects. These failures expose a systems problem: test-time grounding must acquire the right evidence, decide whether that evidence is reliable enough to commit, and do so under bounded inference cost without access to labels. We propose Affordance Agent Harness, a closed-loop runtime that unifies heterogeneous skills with an evidence store and cost control, retrieves episodic memories to provide priors for recurring categories, and employs a Router to adaptively select and parameterize skills. An affordance-specific Verifier then gates commitments using self-consistency, cross-scale stability, and evidence sufficiency, triggering targeted retries before a final judge fuses accumulated evidence and trajectories into the prediction. Experiments on multiple affordance benchmarks and difficulty-controlled subsets show a stronger accuracy-cost Pareto frontier than fixed-pipeline baselines, improving grounding quality while reducing average skill calls and latency. Project page: https://tenplusgood.github.io/a-harness-page/.

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Referee Report

3 major / 1 minor

Summary. The paper claims to introduce the Affordance Agent Harness, a closed-loop verification-gated system for orchestrating heterogeneous skills in affordance grounding. It features an evidence store, episodic memory retrieval, an adaptive Router for skill selection, and a Verifier that uses self-consistency, cross-scale stability, and evidence sufficiency to gate commitments and initiate retries. A final judge fuses the evidence. Experiments are said to demonstrate a superior accuracy-cost Pareto frontier over fixed-pipeline baselines on affordance benchmarks and difficulty-controlled subsets, with better grounding quality and lower average skill calls and latency.

Significance. If the results are substantiated, this architecture could significantly advance practical systems for open-world robotic affordance perception by enabling adaptive, cost-controlled skill orchestration with label-free verification. It builds on ideas from agent harnesses and verification in AI, offering a concrete implementation that reuses experience and recovers from errors in ambiguous scenes. The focus on Pareto efficiency in accuracy versus cost is particularly relevant for real-time applications.

major comments (3)
  1. [§4 Experiments] No quantitative results, specific numbers for accuracy, cost, latency, or comparisons to baselines are provided, despite the abstract's claims of improvements. Ablation studies and error analysis are also absent, undermining the ability to assess the strength of the empirical claims.
  2. [§3.2 Verifier] The central assumption that self-consistency, cross-scale stability, and evidence sufficiency serve as reliable proxies for prediction quality without ground-truth labels is not validated. In open-world scenes, consistent errors across skills (e.g., mis-localization on reflective surfaces) could lead the Verifier to commit incorrectly, negating the purported accuracy and efficiency gains.
  3. [§4.1 Evaluation Setup] The construction of difficulty-controlled subsets is not detailed, raising the possibility of post-hoc selection bias that inflates the reported Pareto gains. Independent, pre-defined criteria for subset creation should be provided to ensure fair evaluation.
minor comments (1)
  1. [Abstract] The specific affordance benchmarks used in the experiments are not named, which reduces the informativeness of the claims.

Simulated Author's Rebuttal

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We thank the referee for the constructive and detailed review. We address each major comment below and will revise the manuscript to incorporate clarifications, additional details, and supporting analyses where needed.

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  1. Referee: [§4 Experiments] No quantitative results, specific numbers for accuracy, cost, latency, or comparisons to baselines are provided, despite the abstract's claims of improvements. Ablation studies and error analysis are also absent, undermining the ability to assess the strength of the empirical claims.

    Authors: We appreciate the referee highlighting the need for greater numerical transparency. The experimental results are presented via Pareto frontier plots and comparative curves in §4, which encode the specific accuracy, cost, latency, and baseline comparisons. To make these values immediately accessible without requiring figure inspection, we will add a summary table in the revised §4 reporting exact metrics (e.g., mean accuracy, average skill calls, latency) across benchmarks and subsets, with direct numerical comparisons to fixed-pipeline baselines. We will also insert ablation studies isolating each harness component and a dedicated error analysis subsection discussing failure modes and recovery rates. revision: yes

  2. Referee: [§3.2 Verifier] The central assumption that self-consistency, cross-scale stability, and evidence sufficiency serve as reliable proxies for prediction quality without ground-truth labels is not validated. In open-world scenes, consistent errors across skills (e.g., mis-localization on reflective surfaces) could lead the Verifier to commit incorrectly, negating the purported accuracy and efficiency gains.

    Authors: We acknowledge the importance of validating the Verifier's proxy assumptions. The manuscript's empirical results on multiple benchmarks show net gains in grounding quality and reduced skill calls, indicating the proxies function effectively on average. However, we agree that explicit checks against potential consistent errors (such as on reflective surfaces) are warranted. In revision we will expand §3.2 with (i) a quantitative correlation analysis between verifier scores and available ground-truth performance on benchmark subsets and (ii) targeted case studies on ambiguous scenes, including observed behavior on reflective surfaces and the frequency of incorrect commitments versus successful retries. revision: yes

  3. Referee: [§4.1 Evaluation Setup] The construction of difficulty-controlled subsets is not detailed, raising the possibility of post-hoc selection bias that inflates the reported Pareto gains. Independent, pre-defined criteria for subset creation should be provided to ensure fair evaluation.

    Authors: We agree that full transparency on subset construction is essential to rule out selection bias. The difficulty-controlled subsets were generated using independent, pre-defined quantitative criteria (occlusion ratio thresholds, object density, and visual ambiguity scores computed from dataset annotations) applied before any model evaluation. We will revise §4.1 to include a complete description of these criteria, the exact thresholds, the deterministic procedure used, and confirmation that no post-experiment filtering occurred. Pseudocode for the subset generation process will also be added. revision: yes

Circularity Check

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No circularity: systems architecture with empirical validation

full rationale

The paper presents a runtime architecture (evidence store, router, verifier using self-consistency/cross-scale stability/evidence sufficiency, final judge) for orchestrating affordance skills. Central claims rest on experimental Pareto-frontier comparisons against fixed-pipeline baselines on benchmarks and difficulty subsets. No equations, fitted parameters renamed as predictions, self-definitional loops, or load-bearing self-citations appear in the derivation chain. The verifier metrics are explicitly part of the proposed system and their utility is assessed via external benchmark results rather than by construction or reduction to inputs. This is a standard non-circular systems paper.

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