Google open-sources Harness², a framework that lets AI agents improve their own prompts and tools
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Google Research released Harness² as open source under Apache 2.0. It keeps a model's weights fixed and lets the agent's prompts, memory, tools and workflows improve through repeated test loops, with proven changes saved for reuse.
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