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Evolving Agents in the Dark: Retrospective Harness Optimization via Self-Preference

As of 4 August 2026, this Paper Citation Record lists 41 of 41 outbound references and 3 inbound Pith citation observations for arXiv:2606.05922.

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This paper cites SWE-Bench Pro: Can AI Agents Solve Long-Horizon Software Engineering Tasks?.

Evolving Agents in the Dark: Retrospective Harness Optimization via Self-Preference SWE-Bench Pro: Can AI Agents Solve Long-Horizon Software Engineering Tasks?

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This paper cites Sleep-time Compute: Beyond Inference Scaling at Test-time.

Evolving Agents in the Dark: Retrospective Harness Optimization via Self-Preference Sleep-time Compute: Beyond Inference Scaling at Test-time

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This paper cites MemGPT: Towards LLMs as Operating Systems.

Evolving Agents in the Dark: Retrospective Harness Optimization via Self-Preference MemGPT: Towards LLMs as Operating Systems

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This paper cites Can LLMs Refuse Questions They Do Not Know? Measuring Knowledge-Aware Refusal in Factual Tasks.

Evolving Agents in the Dark: Retrospective Harness Optimization via Self-Preference Can LLMs Refuse Questions They Do Not Know? Measuring Knowledge-Aware Refusal in Factual Tasks

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Evolving Agents in the Dark: Retrospective Harness Optimization via Self-Preference Unresolved cited work

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This paper cites For code repair tasks, modify files directly under ,→task/repo/.

Evolving Agents in the Dark: Retrospective Harness Optimization via Self-Preference For code repair tasks, modify files directly under ,→task/repo/

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Evolving Agents in the Dark: Retrospective Harness Optimization via Self-Preference difficulty

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Evolving Agents in the Dark: Retrospective Harness Optimization via Self-Preference task_id":

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Evolving Agents in the Dark: Retrospective Harness Optimization via Self-Preference Higher severity means the diagnosis should influence optimization ,→more strongly

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Evolving Agents in the Dark: Retrospective Harness Optimization via Self-Preference Unresolved cited work

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Evolving Agents in the Dark: Retrospective Harness Optimization via Self-Preference Unresolved cited work

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Evolving Agents in the Dark: Retrospective Harness Optimization via Self-Preference 15 When done, send the changes and your rationale as your final message

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Evolving Agents in the Dark: Retrospective Harness Optimization via Self-Preference value": <integer in [-10, 10]>,

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Evolving Agents in the Dark: Retrospective Harness Optimization via Self-Preference Prefer adapting proven behavior over guessing

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Evolving Agents in the Dark: Retrospective Harness Optimization via Self-Preference Follow stored data back to user-visible artifacts, config values back to their runtime representation, and wrappers back to the implementation that actually executes

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Evolving Agents in the Dark: Retrospective Harness Optimization via Self-Preference Keep generated files, caches, temporary smoke tests, and local environment output out of the submitted diff

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Evolving Agents in the Dark: Retrospective Harness Optimization via Self-Preference Syntax checks are not enough: run at least one focused smoke that calls every new public route/function/method and covers each explicit failure/edge condition in the prompt

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Evolving Agents in the Dark: Retrospective Harness Optimization via Self-Preference 0"‘ and ‘

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Evolving Agents in the Dark: Retrospective Harness Optimization via Self-Preference It avoids quoting failures and leaves a useful command trail in ,→‘/host-ws‘

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Evolving Agents in the Dark: Retrospective Harness Optimization via Self-Preference Readable

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Evolving Agents in the Dark: Retrospective Harness Optimization via Self-Preference by ,→making queries

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Evolving Agents in the Dark: Retrospective Harness Optimization via Self-Preference Avoid dumping the ,→full ‘are.py list‘ output unless the catalog is missing or corrupt

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Evolving Agents in the Dark: Retrospective Harness Optimization via Self-Preference today",

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Evolving Agents in the Dark: Retrospective Harness Optimization via Self-Preference Then email X that the cab was ordered

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Evolving Agents in the Dark: Retrospective Harness Optimization via Self-Preference Complete unambiguous parts, report the ,→unresolved blocker to the user through AgentUserInterface, and do not ,→perform the ambiguous write

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Evolving Agents in the Dark: Retrospective Harness Optimization via Self-Preference reply at 2024-10-15 ,→07:04:00; add to cart at 07:04:30

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Learning to Control LLM Agent Harnesses with Offline Reinforcement Learning cites this paper.

Learning to Control LLM Agent Harnesses with Offline Reinforcement Learning Evolving Agents in the Dark: Retrospective Harness Optimization via Self-Preference

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Phantom Guardrails: When Self-Improving Agent Harnesses Fix Failures That Never Happened cites this paper.

Phantom Guardrails: When Self-Improving Agent Harnesses Fix Failures That Never Happened Evolving Agents in the Dark: Retrospective Harness Optimization via Self-Preference

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Why Git Is the Memory Solution for the Agentic Development Lifecycle cites this paper.

Why Git Is the Memory Solution for the Agentic Development Lifecycle Evolving Agents in the Dark: Retrospective Harness Optimization via Self-Preference

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