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Automated interface design shifts the bottleneck in computer-use agents from model quality to environment design, letting a small open model beat frontier systems on cost-adjusted performance. Builders of agent pipelines can apply the same trajectory-driven tool synthesis and population-based selection pattern to their own harnesses. The open-source release makes the method directly reproducible without proprietary APIs.

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The non-obvious move here is replacing score-based feedback with same-task A/B behavioural comparisons, which sidesteps the missing-verifier problem that blocks most self-improvement systems. Engineers building agent scaffolds can study the Propose–Probe–Compose loop and reuse its evidence-gated lesson library design in their own stacks. As an open-source release from Google Research, it is directly comparable to other RSI and agent-tuning frameworks that depend on task-specific verifiers.

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Agreement among multiple rollouts is widely treated as a reliability signal, but this work shows it can mask correlated errors — a finding that affects how anyone builds best-of-n selection for agents. The verification-and-revision loop is practical to apply with existing frontier models, as the Gemini 3.5 Flash and Claude Opus 4.8 gains show. Teams building long-horizon agent pipelines can start from the released 26,000-rollout dataset.

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