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Google's Harness² framework boosts AI agent performance by optimizing prompts and tools

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Google Cloud AI Research and Northwestern University have developed Harness², a framework designed to enhance AI agent performance without altering the core model. This system focuses on optimizing the surrounding components like prompts, tools, and skills. Experiments on the WorkBuddy-Bench benchmark demonstrated that Harness² could significantly improve scores, with one instance showing an 11.5-point increase for GLM-5 by modifying its harness. AI

IMPACT This framework could lead to more capable AI agents by improving their performance without requiring more powerful underlying models.

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