What Does Multi-Harness RL Learn? Credit Assignment and Portability in Coding Agents

arXiv cs.AISeptember 7, 2026en

arXiv:2609.04518v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Agent reinforcement learning (RL) increasingly runs through full execution harnesses, and a multi-harness recipe mixes two choices: exposing the policy to several harnesses, and comparing their rewards inside one relative-advantage group. We isolate the second choice in repository-level coding. From one Qwen3-8B supervised warm start we replay the same frozen task-harness records from Aider, OpenHands, Qwen Code, and SWE-agent, with the same number of updates, under two rules for group-relative policy optimization (GRPO), Within (one group per task-harness pair) and Cross (harnesses pooled within a task), and score every checkpoint with a seale

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