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Before: RSIHub had no Meta-Harness recipe, though recent harness-evolution papers (VERSE, SIFT and others) use Meta-Harness (arXiv 2603.28052) as their most common baseline. The mutation agent only saw the selected parent's traces, the last 8 attempts and the latest accepted diff.

After: evolve init --recipe meta_harness runs a Meta-Harness search on the same MiniSWE × Terminal-Bench 2.0 setup as the AHE and HyperAgents recipes. Each generation, the proposer gets a candidate store listing every prior candidate with its score, status, handoff note, diffs against its parent and the seed, and replayed certified traces, plus a per-task frontier.

How:

  • library/rollout/meta_harness.py replays the selected parent exactly like parent_evaluation, then writes rollout/candidates/{index.json,index.md,frontier.json}. Each certified candidate's evaluation is replayed once, in the first generation after it is certified; later generations point back to that replay rather than copying traces again. Uncertified candidates are listed with code and status only.
  • library/mutate/meta_harness.py carries the reference proposer's rules: one falsifiable mechanism per candidate, read failed and successful traces across candidates, no task-specific hints, and a HYPOTHESIS / CHANGES / PREDICTION / EVIDENCE handoff that later proposers see in the index.
  • The certified-replay helpers moved from parent_evaluation.py into library/rollout/_support/certified_replay.py, so both operators share one digest-verified path. parent_evaluation behaviour is unchanged and its tests pass; one test now patches the helper module where _artifact_sources lives.
  • Recipe: greedy select, trace_browser analyze, Codex gpt-5.4 xhigh proposer (same as the other recipes, for comparability), parent_eligible gate, target/** surface. Differences from the reference implementation are listed in recipes/meta_harness/README.md.

Validation:

  • ruff check, ruff format --check, ty check: clean.
  • Default suite: 1584 passed. One failure, test_agent_runner.py::test_run_mutate_timeout_kills_command_group, also fails on unmodified main in this container.
  • test_recipe_full_cycle.py[meta_harness] with --run-slow: passed. I also continued that offline workspace to 3 generations and confirmed the store indexes all candidates and replays a non-parent candidate once.
  • test_release_artifact.py against a fresh uv build: passed.
  • Not run: a real campaign with model calls, so this PR has no benchmark numbers.

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  • New Features
    • Added the Meta-Harness recipe, which uses prior candidates’ code, scores, and evaluation traces to propose one harness change.
    • Added certified evaluation replay, with summaries of task, trial, outcome, and reward results.
  • Documentation
    • Added setup and usage guidance for Meta-Harness and included it in supported recipe lists.
    • Updated the recipe and operator inventories to include Meta-Harness and additional benchmark profiles.

Meta-Harness (arXiv 2603.28052) gives its proposer filesystem access to every
prior candidate's code, scores, and execution traces. The new recipe
reproduces that loop under the frozen evaluator:

- rollout/meta_harness replays the selected parent like parent_evaluation
  and builds rollout/candidates/: an index of every candidate with its
  score, status, handoff, and diffs against its parent and the seed, plus a
  per-task frontier. Each certified candidate's evaluation is replayed once
  and later generations point back to it.
- mutate/meta_harness carries the reference proposer's rules: one
  falsifiable mechanism per candidate, read traces across candidates, no
  task-specific hints, and a handoff note later proposers read.
- The certified-replay helpers move from parent_evaluation into
  library/rollout/_support/certified_replay.py so both operators share the
  same digest-verified path; parent_evaluation behaviour is unchanged.

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This pull request adds the meta_harness recipe, its rollout and mutation operators, and shared certified replay support. It also adds recipe configuration, tests, and documentation, and updates the existing parent-evaluation rollout to use the shared replay implementation.

Changes: Meta-Harness recipe

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Certified replay foundation
library/rollout/_support/*, library/rollout/parent_evaluation.py, tests/test_evaluation_replay_rollout.py
Shared support verifies certified evaluation artifacts, materializes replay inputs, validates collector outputs, and builds case summaries. ParentEvaluationRollout now uses these helpers.
Candidate replay and indexes
library/rollout/meta_harness.py, tests/test_meta_harness.py
The rollout validates and replays the selected parent, indexes archive candidates, reuses available prior replay data, and writes candidate indexes and frontier results. Tests cover candidate data and replay reuse.
Evidence-guided mutation
library/mutate/meta_harness.py, tests/test_meta_harness.py
The mutation operator builds a prompt with candidate-history guidance, runs the agent, and records its output and patch artifacts. Tests check the prompt paths and proposer instructions.
Recipe configuration and adoption
recipes/meta_harness/*, recipes/README.md, README*, docs/*, library/README.md, scripts/*, tests/*
Adds recipe settings and operator bindings, updates supported-recipe and runtime checks, and documents the recipe and its operator behavior. The design inventory also updates its listed recipes and full-benchmark profiles.

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Estimated code review effort: 4 (Complex) | ~45 minutes

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sequenceDiagram
  participant MetaHarnessRollout
  participant CertifiedReplay
  participant CandidateArchive
  participant CandidateIndex
  MetaHarnessRollout->>CertifiedReplay: Replay selected parent and certified candidates
  CertifiedReplay-->>MetaHarnessRollout: Return cases and replay artifacts
  MetaHarnessRollout->>CandidateArchive: Read candidate rows and prior run indexes
  MetaHarnessRollout->>CandidateIndex: Write candidate indexes and frontier
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If a single earlier certified candidate fails replay validation, the Meta-Harness rollout aborts, and the failure repeats in later generations, blocking the campaign. Isolate non-parent replay failures while keeping the selected-parent replay strict, then merge.

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- Around line 204-207: Update the replay logic around the genid-in-prior branch
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stored artifact digest matches the current row artifact digest. Store the digest
on entries created by both parent and fresh-replay paths so uncertified
candidates or candidates with changed artifacts are replayed anew.
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