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2026arXiv

Harness-1: Reinforcement Learning for Search Agents with State-Externalizing Harnesses

Pengcheng Jiang, Zhiyi Shi, Kelly Hong et al.

What this work does

Externalizes candidate pools, document memory, evidence graphs and curation state while training the policy to make semantic search and selection decisions.

Connection to discovery

A concrete division between reliable harness bookkeeping and trainable evidence-seeking decisions.

Evidence

Retrieval benchmarks separate final curated recall from trajectory recall, and same-checkpoint ablations disable individual state-management components.

Scope and limitations

Retrieval relevance and recall do not verify a new scientific claim. Harness ablations at inference measure dependence on the trained interface, not an isolated universal contribution to capability.

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