Recent papers on Agentic AI & harness engineering

Year.Mon Link Description
19.11 https://arxiv.org/abs/1911.01547 Francois Chollets introduces the reasoning challenge
22.10 https://arxiv.org/abs/2210.03629 ReAct paper
23.10 https://arxiv.org/abs/2310.08560 MemGPT paper: memory for agents
24.10 https://arxiv.org/abs/2410.10813 Benchmark for memory
25.07 https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.19457 GEPA: Reflective Prompt Evolution Can Outperform Reinforcement Learning. prompt-engineering followup on DSPy
25.03 https://arxiv.org/abs/2503.22625
25.12 https://arxiv.org/abs/2512.24601v1
2025 https://www.kaggle.com/whitepaper-agents Google Whitepaper Agents:
25.06 https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.08945
25.12 https://arxiv.org/abs/2512.24601
26.01 https://arxiv.org/abs/2601.20245
26.05 https://arxiv.org/abs/2605.09998 Continual Harness paper
26.07 https://www.kaggle.com/whitepaper-the-new-SDLC-with-vibe-coding Google Whitepaper How agents shape the new Software Development Life Cycle
26.07 https://arxiv.org/abs/2606.24937 Nice overview paper of Agentic AI
26.07 https://arxiv.org/abs/2607.20064 Harness for ARC-AGI 3
26.07 https://arxiv.org/abs/2607.13104 Schmidthuber’s overview paper of self improvements
26.08 https://arxiv.org/abs/2608.23552

Blogs

https://code.claude.com/docs/en/how-claude-code-works

https://newsletter.pragmaticengineer.com/p/how-ai-will-change-software-engineering

https://medium.com/google-cloud/the-future-of-autonomous-software-maintenance-a-dependency-update-agent-2a589a60ef21

https://huyenchip.com//2025/01/07/agents.html

https://magazine.sebastianraschka.com/p/using-local-coding-agents

https://www.primeintellect.ai/blog/rlm

https://www.primeintellect.ai/blog/prime-agent

https://michielbontenbal.github.io/2026/08/06/Continual-Harness.html

https://docs.cloud.google.com/architecture/choose-design-pattern-agentic-ai-system

https://docs.langchain.com/oss/python/langchain/agents

https://www.oreilly.com/radar/stop-overengineering-your-agent-harness/

https://selfimproving-agent.github.io/

Courses

https://huggingface.co/learn/agents-course/unit0/introduction

https://www.kaggle.com/learn-guide/5-day-agents