Researchers from Google Cloud AI Research, Washington University in St. Louis, and UNC Chapel Hill released EnvHarness, a programmable layer that converts fixed agent benchmarks into adaptive training environments using plug-in wrappers. Instead of generating new domain-specific environments and unreliable LLM-written verifiers, EnvHarness wraps existing simulators through the standard reset and step interfaces, preserving human-built verifiers while modifying start states, interaction rules, and episode composition. Combined with the EnvRigger designer loop, the system automatically diagnoses policy weaknesses, writes and validates wrappers, delivering up to nine-point performance gains and nearly ten percent fewer execution steps across multiple benchmarks, provided environments are fully resettable.
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