Self-Evolving Agent Harness: How Proteus Lets Agents Plug In, Evolve, and Measure
A self-evolving agent harness is the layer of prompts, memory, skills, tools, and control logic that lets an AI agent improve its own behavior over time. Proteus is an open-source, MIT-licensed research-preview framework that lets you plug in any agent harness, evolve it across episodes, and measure exactly what changed. Instead of chasing a single benchmark score, Proteus asks what a self-evolving harness actually does and whether an initial condition leaves a permanent mark. ...