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Research2026-08-21 · source-backed
Google Cloud AI Research shipped a plug-in layer that reshapes a static environment's behavior through standard interfaces while keeping the original verifier intact, plus EnvRigger, which watches a policy's trajectories black-box, synthesizes harness components targeting diagnosed weaknesses, and validates with fresh rollouts. Across five benchmarks in four domains it beats both the original environments and domain-specific generation pipelines by up to 9.0 points on held-out instances while using 9.8% fewer execution steps. arXiv Environment co-evolution rather than more hand-built evals is where agent RL is going, and this is the cleanest statement of it I've read.
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