NVIDIA released SoL-Pi, an MIT-licensed Pi extension with four token-saving harness mechanisms that an optimizer agent found. A dev.to review puts the saving near one third on long sessions, bought with a few lost solves.
Reality
- Evidence45
- Adoption
- Insufficient
- Hype gap+20
- Incentives
- Insufficient
- Confidence45
Polyglot's developer ran six coding agents 30 times on each of seven local models, and three never made a tool call on models that write calls as text. The author's own error bars say 30 runs can sort agents into tiers but cannot rank two agents inside one.
Reality
- Evidence55
- Adoption
- Insufficient
- Hype gap+5
- Incentives70
- Confidence55
The spread traces to two numbers you can read off your own logs: the tokens a harness spends before any work starts, and how many turns it takes. Together they predicted total token use with an R-squared of 0.99.
Reality
- Evidence58
- Adoption34
- Hype gap+12
- Incentives42
- Confidence55
The enforcement is a bootstrap prompt the agent checks before every task, so its durability depends on per-harness plumbing. On Hermes Agent, compaction can lose it.
Reality
- Evidence34
- Adoption
- Insufficient
- Hype gap+30
- Incentives
- Insufficient
- Confidence41
Composio ran the leaderboard-topping model through 240 agent runs against live Gmail, GitHub and Slack tools, and 129 passed. Harness choice moved the outcome more than price did.
Reality
- Evidence44
- Adoption24
- Hype gap+36
- Incentives57
- Confidence41