软件工程代理中的工具链效应研究

研究构建了NanoHarness轻量级模块化工具链，分析了五个关键组件的影响。实验表明，工具链效果取决于模型能力和任务类型，复杂工具链在模型能力提升时对SWE风格问题修复的边际收益递减，但在更复杂的仓库级任务中能增强强模型性能。

Beyond the Model: Demystifying Harness Effects in Software Engineering Agents

Large Language Model (LLM)-based agents are increasingly used for software engineering tasks, yet their performance is not determined by the base model alone. The agent harness substantially shapes how SE agents interact with repositories, execute actions, and validate solutions. However, the role of harness design remains insufficiently understood, especially across different models, tasks, and harness components. In this paper, we present a systematic empirical study of harness effects in SE agents. We first evaluate two representative harnesses, mini-SWE-agent and OpenCode, with ten models from two prominent open-weight model families, Qwen and DeepSeek, on three benchmarks: SWE-bench Pro, ProgramBench, and GitTaskBench. We then construct NanoHarness, a lightweight modular harness built on top of mini-SWE-agent, and use it to analyze five representative harness components: tool registry, context compression, explicit planning, subagents, and lazy skills. Experimental results show that harness effectiveness depends jointly on model capability and task type. Complex harnesses provide diminishing marginal gains on SWE-style issue repair as model capability improves, but can benefit stronger models on more complex and open-ended repository-level tasks. Component-level analysis on ProgramBench further shows that structured tool use and task-specific subagents provide the most stable improvements, while context compression and general subagents can hurt repository-generation performance. When combined, NanoHarness improves over mini-SWE-agent by 7.37 and 6.21 percentage points on Qwen3.7-Max and DeepSeek-V4-Pro, respectively, recovering most of the gains of product-level harnesses. These findings highlight harness design as a first-class factor in SE-agent performance and provide insights for building more effective and efficient coding agents.

本条情报归属 AITOP「技巧」核心栏目，重点聚焦中国 AI 产业与国产大模型生态。在跨区域产业观察坐标中，该动态直接关联「AI 开发者工具链、Coding Agent 与工程化实践」研究主线，反映出当前技术演进与商业落地的最新风向。涉及核心实体与技术议题包括：Qwen、DeepSeek、软件工程代理、工具链，读者可通过下方标签进入对应专题页查阅历史脉络与关联对比。

信源核验说明：本文原始信息发布自一手权威信源「arXiv: DeepSeek」（Tier-1 一手发布），具备高确定性参考价值。