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Adapting the Interface, Not the Model: Runtime Harness Adaptation for Deterministic LLM Agents

LLM agents are shaped not only by their language models, but also by the runtime harness that mediates observation, tool use, action execution, feedback interpretation, and trajectory control. While existing agent adaptation methods mainly update model parameters, many failures in deterministic, rule-governed domains stem from mismatches at the model--environment interface. We propose Life-Harness, a lifecycle-aware runtime harness that improves frozen LLM agents without changing model weights o

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Published: 21 May 2026
Source: arXiv
Category: Research
Topics: Agents & autonomy · Environment
Retrieved: 14 July 2026

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ethics.ai (21 May 2026), “Adapting the Interface, Not the Model: Runtime Harness Adaptation for Deterministic LLM Agents,” evidence record 3928, https://ethics.ai/record/3928 (originally published by arXiv).

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