Harness Engineering for RSI

A comprehensive course on Lilian Weng’s framework for harness engineering, self-improving agents, workflow/search methods, and the remaining bottlenecks for recursive self-improvement.

4 sections · 16 lessons

Course outline

Harness Foundations

  1. RSI Through Deployment
  2. What Harnesses Add
  3. Workflow Automation Loops
  4. Files as Persistent Memory
  5. Design a Minimal Coding Harness

Context and Workflows

  1. Context as Playbook
  2. Meta Context Engineering
  3. Meta-Harness Search
  4. Auto-Research Workflows
  5. Choose a Context Strategy

Self-Improving Loops

  1. Workflow Search Algorithms
  2. Improving the Improver
  3. Self-Harness Loops
  4. Observability-Driven Evolution
  5. Mine a Harness Weakness

Evolution and Limits

  1. Evolutionary Prompt Search
  2. Program Evolution Systems
  3. Evolving Agent Repositories
  4. Weights, Rewards, Humans
  5. Govern a Self-Improving Loop

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