Beyond Prompts: Measuring and Optimizing LLM Tool-Agent Harnesses

arXiv:2609.05736 · cs.AI · Submitted 2026-09-04 · Read on arXiv

cs.AI

Submitted: 2026-09-04

Updated: 2026-09-09

Comments: Accepted to EMNLP 2026. 18 pages, 9 figures, 10 tables

License: http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/

Terminology

• Ablation — 1× in this paper · explained in 1 episode
• Benchmark — 1× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes

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