{
  "id": 8161602,
  "title": "An Empirical Study of Harness Design for Coding Agents",
  "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/09/17/an-empirical-study-of-harness-design-for-coding-agents",
  "topic": "ai",
  "section": "AI",
  "published": "2026-09-17T17:58:07.000Z",
  "source": {
    "name": "arXiv cs.AI",
    "slug": "arxiv-cs-ai",
    "url": "https://arxiv.org/abs/2609.20804v1"
  },
  "original_language": "en",
  "account": null,
  "summary": "Coding harnesses shape how autonomous coding agents translate model capabilities into long-horizon software-engineering performance, yet existing work typically evaluates harnesses as monolithic systems, leaving the effectiveness of individual components unclear. To enable component-level comparisons, we study this question with a lightweight coding harness whose execution loop is fixed while…",
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  "coverage": {
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  "ai_generated": true,
  "disclaimer": "Summaries, key points and the editor’s take are written by software from other outlets’ reporting and may contain errors — always check the linked original."
}