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Related survey: Harness Engineering for Language Agents (Agency = tool/function execution) #3

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@ChaoYue0307

Nice survey/repo on function calling. Flagging a related survey you may want to reference: function/tool calling is the Agency dimension of the broader agent harness.

Harness Engineering for Language Agents: The Harness Layer as Control, Agency, and Runtime (He et al., Preprints 2026)

  • Link: https://www.preprints.org/manuscript/202603.1756/v2 (DOI: 10.20944/preprints202603.1756)
  • Frames the agent harness as Control, Agency, and Runtime (CAR) — where Agency covers tool/function execution and registries — situates it in the software → prompt → context → harness arc, audits 63 harness-relevant works, and proposes HarnessCard.

Disclosure: I am an author. Opening an issue (not a PR) since the README is organized by function-calling sub-topics with no related-surveys section — happy to add it wherever you think fits.

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