OneDayAgent: Towards a Long-Horizon Harness for Autonomous Agents

arXiv:2608.05013 · cs.CL, cs.AI, cs.HC, cs.LG, cs.MA · Submitted 2026-08-04 · Read on arXiv

Jingsheng Zheng, Xinyuan Fang, Jintian Zhang, Zhengke Gui, Huajun Chen, Ningyu Zhang

cs.CL, cs.AI, cs.HC, cs.LG, cs.MA

Submitted: 2026-08-04

Comments: Ongoing work

Code: https://github.com/zjunlp/OneDayAgent

License: http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/

Terminology

• Harness — 59× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Verification — 39× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Benchmark — 23× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Benchmarking — 13× in this paper · explained in 4 episodes
• Papers — 10× in this paper · explained in 3 episodes
• Ablation — 6× in this paper · explained in 1 episode
• Trace — 6× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Core — 5× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Task Decomposition — 5× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Verifier — 5× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• AI Agents — 4× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Failure Modes — 4× in this paper · explained in 3 episodes
• Reinforcement Learning — 4× in this paper · explained in 4 episodes
• Agentic System — 3× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Iterative Refinement — 3× in this paper · explained in 5 episodes
• Planner — 3× in this paper · explained in 3 episodes
• Agentic AI — 2× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Generalization — 2× in this paper · explained in 14 episodes
• RAG — 2× in this paper · explained in 3 episodes
• Scaffold — 2× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Transferability — 2× in this paper · explained in 5 episodes
• Ablation Study — 1× in this paper · explained in 3 episodes
• Adam — 1× in this paper · explained in 3 episodes
• Adversarial Robustness — 1× in this paper · explained in 4 episodes
• Artificial Intelligence (AI) — 1× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Composition — 1× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Foundation Model — 1× in this paper · explained in 3 episodes
• Foundation Models — 1× in this paper · explained in 8 episodes
• Generalizability — 1× in this paper · explained in 6 episodes
• Hierarchical Structure — 1× in this paper · explained in 3 episodes
• Multimodal Inputs — 1× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Open Workflow Execution — 1× in this paper
• Pruning — 1× in this paper · explained in 4 episodes
• Reasoning Traces — 1× in this paper · explained in 4 episodes
• Robustness — 1× in this paper · explained in 6 episodes
• Task Planning — 1× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Transformer — 1× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes

Sources

• From LLM Reasoning to Autonomous AI Agents: A Comprehensive Review
• LLM-Based Agentic Systems for Software Engineering: Challenges and Opportunities
• Deep Research of Deep Research: From Transformer to Agent, From AI to AI for Science
• Toward Personalized LLM-Powered Agents: Foundations, Evaluation, and Future Directions
• AgentIF-OneDay: A Task-level Instruction-Following Benchmark for General AI Agents in Daily Scenarios
• GLM-5: from Vibe Coding to Agentic Engineering
• ReAct: Synergizing Reasoning and Acting in Language Models
• A Subgoal-driven Framework for Improving Long-Horizon LLM Agents
• HIPIF: Hierarchical Planning and Information Folding for Long-Horizon LLM Agent Learning
• WebArena: A Realistic Web Environment for Building Autonomous Agents
• Reflexion: Language Agents with Verbal Reinforcement Learning
• AgentFixer: From Failure Detection to Fix Recommendations in LLM Agentic Systems
• Agent Memory: Characterization and System Implications of Stateful Long-Horizon Workloads
• MemGym: a Long-Horizon Memory Environment for LLM Agents
• Towards a Standard, Enterprise-Relevant Agentic AI Benchmark: Lessons from 5.5 billion tokens' worth of agentic AI evaluations
• AGENTIF: Benchmarking Instruction Following of Large Language Models in Agentic Scenarios
• Large Language Model Agent: A Survey on Methodology, Applications and Challenges
• Agentic Artificial Intelligence (AI): Architectures, Taxonomies, and Evaluation of Large Language Model Agents
• Agentic Tool Use in Large Language Models
• Generalizability of Large Language Model-Based Agents: A Comprehensive Survey

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