@omarsar0: Another good paper. Interesting finding on the benefits of the agent harness.
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A paper investigates the contribution of agent harnesses versus models to agent behavior, collapsing traces into a compact finite-state machine validated across twelve datasets.
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Another good paper. Interesting finding on the benefits of the agent harness.
DAIR.AI (@dair_ai): // Automata from agent traces //
How much of your agent’s behavior comes from the model, and how much from the harness you wrapped around it?
New work collapses an entire corpus of agent traces into a single compact finite-state machine. Across twelve public datasets the
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