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Ouroboros: A Self-Developing Frontier Coding Agent with Reviewed Core Evolution

arXiv:2608.08311SEAI8 aug 20261 min readHN ×6PDF

A coding agent rewrites its own harness through reviewed commits, then tops agent benchmarks.

86.74%%

Terminal-Bench 2.1 audited accuracy

Best reported score on 89 hard terminal tasks

How it works

  1. Harnesses stay frozen

    Agent scores depend on how the harness builds context and uses tools, yet most harnesses never change after design.

  2. Agent edits its harness

    The agent improves its own tools, prompts and code. Each change passes multi-model diff review before it becomes live.

  3. Top benchmark scores

    Frozen snapshots lead Terminal-Bench 2.1, OSWorld-Verified and CL-Bench, and match Codex on SWE-bench Pro.

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