RUNTIME / SYSTEMS NOTE
The Harness Is Not the World
Agent operating systems, self-improving runtimes and the unresolved boundary between task success and consequence truth.
Working thesis
Persistent execution and self-improving harnesses are powerful infrastructure, but they do not establish that authority remained valid, evidence was complete or an external effect occurred.
Research questions
- 01
Which gains belong to the model, harness or environment?
- 02
How should refined prompts, memories and skills inherit provenance?
- 03
What prevents recursive improvement from optimizing against a correlated evaluator?
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