Google Open-Sources Harness2, a Recursive Agent Harnessing Framework
Google Research released Harness2, an Apache-2.0 framework that rewrites an agent's harness at test time. One refinement step lifted GLM-5 by 11.5 points on WorkBuddy-Bench with no weight updates.

In brief
- What: Google Open-Sources Harness2, a Recursive Agent Harnessing Framework
- When: October 18, 2026 at 11:15
- Source: MarkTechPost (media)
- Also reported by: SiliconANGLE AI
- Topic: Agents & tools
Prepared by Ilya Tarasov’s Tarasov Code newsroom based on a report by MarkTechPost.



