Framework improves AI agents by patching common failure patterns

Vestrum diagnoses execution traces, proposes targeted harness changes, and boosts performance across multiple benchmarks without retraining the language model.

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Jayant Parashar · Eugene F. Douglass · William C. Bastian · Suchendra M. Bhandarkar

University of Georgia

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Parashar et al.

The authors designed Vestrum, a meta-framework that analyzes execution traces from agent runs and scopes changes to the agent harness—the code managing tool use, memory, verification, and planning.

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Vestrum turns execution trace failures into scoped harness changes that improve performance on held-out tasks without retraining the model.

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