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**Agent harnesses** are becoming a key optimization focus, with NVIDIA research showing traditional skill checks poorly predict agent usefulness and proposing a new metric called **"Skill Lift"**. Open-source implementations of **persistent and self-modifying agents** like **Headlong** and **exo**…

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