AI Agent Arxiv Digest — 2026-08-09
OneDayAgent's decompose-remember-verify harness hits 0.821 new SOTA on AgentIF-OneDay and works unchanged across five backends; The Horizon Gap surveys 1,547 papers to find that six categories of long-horizon failure share a single structural pattern — outcome-only signals degrade as step count grows, driving the field toward denser process signals; Evo-Bench is the first benchmark for harness self-evolution — GPT-5.6 Sol peaks at +16.6 absolute gain, but Office tasks still need hand-crafted workflows