RegenHarness: A Robot Agent Harness with Evidence-Gated Recursive Self-Improvement

Abstract:Long-horizon robot execution requires a clear distinction between a model's proposal, a controller's termination, and verified task completion. We present RegenHarness, an evidence-gated robot-agent harness connecting task planning to heterogeneous robot skills. Its execution architecture couples a model loop for context-conditioned proposals with an agent loop for dispatch, observation, verification, commitment, and bounded recovery. Four role-isolated contexts separate planning, supervision, verification, and recovery inputs. Versioned memory distinguishes observed facts from accepted task progress, while an identity- and version-bound commit gate controls updates to trusted task state. The runtime combines duplicate-dispatch control, resource leases, and recovery budgets under explicit backend contracts, and checks the original user goal before reporting completion. To our knowledge, we are the first to introduce an evidence-gated recursive self-improvement (RSI) protocol for embodied robotic agents. Across missions, execution records motivate candidate changes to context rules, task templates, routing, and recovery policies; fixed regression checks and release authorization govern their acceptance; versioned rollout and rollback preserve configuration traceability. This RSI protocol revises the harness configuration without online model-weight updates or permission to weaken the commit gate. A real quadruped deployment documents voice-triggered warehouse navigation, panoramic inspection, visual analysis, message delivery, return, and spoken reporting through linked audio, images, trajectories, and receipts. A separate circuit demonstrates why completion depends on execution history rather than endpoint proximity alone. Together, the cases demonstrate integrated perception, physical execution, communication, and history-dependent completion in real-world robot tasks.

Robotics (cs.RO)

arXiv:2609.27612 [cs.RO]

(or arXiv:2609.27612v1 [cs.RO] for this version)

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