Multi-Harness Reinforcement Learning for Coding Agents: Training Gains and Harness Dependence
arXiv:2609.04518v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Recent systems train coding agents with reinforcement learning (RL) on trajectories collected through multiple execution harnesses. However, gains under the training harnesses leave open whether the improvements transfer to unseen interfaces and how they depend on reward normalization. We present a controlled study that measures RL gains under fixed harnesses and compares the same models across harnesses. We train two Qwen3-8B RL variants from…