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EVOHARNESSBENCH: Can Your Agents Keep Pace with an Evolving Harness? research paper by Salesforce, 2026

Salesforce · Sep 3, 2026 · Agents and evaluation · 32 upvotes 3 weeks ago

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The study introduces a benchmark to evaluate LLM agents under evolving tool, skill, and agent harnesses, revealing persistent gaps in retention, adaptation, and harness-induced forgetting.

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Zixuan Ke, Vaidehi Patil, Haizhou Shi and 9 more
arXiv
2609.04280 · PDF
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