HORIZON: Agentic Hardware Design as Repository-Level Code Evolution
arXiv·high signal
Cunxi Yu, Chenhui Deng, and Nathaniel Pinckney present HORIZON, a self-evolving agent framework that reframes hardware design as repository-level code evolution driven by a Markdown-based harness that iteratively mutates and tests a codebase. The repo-as-substrate-for-agent-evolution pattern directly mirrors how modern coding agents operate, making it transferable beyond hardware to general software-engineering automation. Builders working on autonomous coding loops should note the explicit Markdown harness design.