Meta-Harness: End-to-End Optimization of Model Harnesses — Intel

Harness engineering, automated: this optimizes the scaffolding around a model — what it stores, retrieves, and feeds back — rather than the weights.

Read it once you have realized the harness, not the model, is where most of your agent quality actually comes from.

A research paper and framework demonstrating automated optimization of model harnesses - the scaffolding code that determines what AI models store, retrieve, and present during task execution.

Shows significant improvements over hand-designed systems across text classification, math reasoning, and coding tasks.