Recursive Harnessing vs Weight Fine-Tuning: Deconstructing Google Research's Harness² Architecture in Open-World Agent Runtimes
Google Research introduces Harness²: a recursive agent harnessing framework that refines execution surfaces on frozen foundation weights. An empirical teardown of task-level Propose–Probe–Compose, lifelong harnessing-level reflection, and why runtime harness synthesis outperforms multi-million-dollar weight fine-tuning across open-world benchmarks.