AutoAgent: The Open-Source Library That Lets an AI Engineer and Optimize Its Own Agent Harness Overnight
There’s a particular kind of tedium that every AI engineer knows intimately: the prompt-tuning loop. You write a system prompt, run your agent against a benchmark, read the failure traces, tweak the prompt, add a tool, rerun. Repeat this a few dozen times and you might move the needle. It’s grunt work dressed up in Python files. AutoAgent, built by Kevin Gu at thirdlayer.inc, proposes a direct alternative: don’t do that work yourself. Let an AI do it. ...