INIT Labs describes the harness as the prompts, tools and loop around a model, and says INIT rewrites its own, tests each change and swaps it in mid-conversation. A component it calls the Root holds the API keys, the signed record and the…
In the News: October 26, 2026 (Extra 2)
INIT Labs published an open-source coding agent that rewrites its own harness, gated by tests and a rollback layer the model cannot touch.
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An open-source coding agent rewrites its own harness and keeps a signed rollback record
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