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StarHarness: Evolving Harnesses with Stratified Search for Enterprise Environments
arXiv cs.AI · Published · 3 min read
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- What happened
- StarHarness automatically optimizes agent configurations like prompts, tool interfaces, and task framing without changing model weights, improving enterprise task performance by 20-35 percentage points.
- Why it matters
- Enterprise engineers deploying AI agents for SRE, IT service management, and finance automation need better performance from existing models without retraining.
- Watch out
- Results shown on three specific benchmarks; unclear how well improvements generalize to novel enterprise environments or whether gains require significant tuning effort per deployment.
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- agent
- prompt
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- mcp
The patterns behind this
- Agentic Context Engineering (Evolving Playbook)
- Automatic Prompt Optimization
- MCP Gateway (Tool Federation & Governance)
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