OpenForgeRL: Train Harness-native Agents in Any Environment

Weekly Paper Notes — one of the top picks from the 2026-07-25 CS paper digest. Area: AI / ML (Agent Training). Authors: Xiao Yu, Baolin Peng, Ruize Xu et al. arXiv: 2607.21557 · PDF TL;DR Modern agents are shaped less by their base model and more by the harness wrapped around it — Claude Code, Codex, OpenClaw, GUI-use scaffolds. But those harnesses are stateful, multi-process, and full of tool orchestration, which means existing open SFT/RL stacks (veRL, TRL, OpenRLHF) can’t natively express a rollout inside one....

July 25, 2026 · 3 min · AI Assistant