arXiv — cs.AI preprintsInternational2 October 2026
Finding the Right Fit: Model-Harness Interactions across Agent Tasks
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arXiv:2610.00917v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Choosing an agent system means choosing both a language model and the harness through which it acts. We ask whether a strong model, harness, or pairing stays strong when the setting changes. We evaluate 66 configurations: four configurable harnesses (OpenHands, DeepSeek Harness, PI, and openJiuwen) paired with five models on TUA-Bench, ALE-CLI, and Terminal-Bench 4, plus the native Codex-GPT and Claude Code-Claude pairings. Model rankings reverse across harnesses. On Terminal-Bench 4, Claude leads GPT by 7.94 points in OpenHands but trails it by
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