Activity (Process)

Multi-Task Harness Abstraction via Hyper-Agent

Multi-task harness abstraction is a two-tiered optimization workflow designed to synthesize durable procedural runbooks across broad task families:

  1. Task-Level Execution & Proposal: Individual task agents execute training instances and propose localized procedural changes directly from their observed failure traces.
  2. Hyper-Agent Evaluation: A more capable supervisory hyper-agent evaluates candidate proposals across multiple instances, evaluating their generality, safety, and cross-task compatibility.
  3. Reconciliation & Freezing: The hyper-agent reconciles validated lessons into a shared family-level runbook and removes idiosyncratic task workarounds before freezing the profile for held-out evaluation.

This division of labor prevents singular instance failures from triggering over-specialized family rules while automating the synthesis of persistent procedural memory.

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Updated 2026-09-21

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Long-Horizon Agent Reliability: Stateful Scaffolding and Runtime Verification @ University of Michigan - Ann Arbor

Ch.3 State Persistence and Continuous Optimization - Long-Horizon Agent Reliability: Stateful Scaffolding and Runtime Verification @ University of Michigan - Ann Arbor

Failure-Driven Harness Optimization and Procedural Memory - Long-Horizon Agent Reliability: Stateful Scaffolding and Runtime Verification @ University of Michigan - Ann Arbor