Ornith-1.0: Self-Scaffolding Open-Source Models for Agentic Coding

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Ornith-1.0 is an open-source model family tailored for agentic coding, spanning parameter sizes from 9B to 397B. Built on Gemma 4 and Qwen 3.5, the architecture trains models to jointly generate both code solutions and the task-specific scaffolds directing them.

Key points

  1. Model family spans 9B Dense (suitable for edge deployment), 31B Dense, 35B MoE, and 397B MoE based on Gemma 4 and Qwen 3.5.
  2. Self-scaffolding RL framework: models learn to produce their own orchestration harnesses alongside task solutions.
  3. Three-layer protection against reward hacking: immutable trust boundaries, deterministic tool monitoring, and an LLM judge acting as a veto.
  4. Asynchronous pipeline RL with staleness downweighting in token-level GRPO loss for stable long rollouts.
  5. Flagship Ornith-1.0-397B scores 77.5 on Terminal-Bench 2.1 and 82.4 on SWE-Bench Verified, outperforming Claude Opus 4.7.

Why it matters

Instead of relying on fixed, human-engineered harnesses across coding tasks, treating the scaffolding as a co-evolving learnable object allows agentic workflows to autonomously discover more effective execution strategies.

Analysis

The benchmark data demonstrates strong scaling characteristics across all sizes: the 9B variant matches or exceeds previous 31B models, and the 35B MoE outperforms larger architectures like Qwen 3.5-397B on Terminal-Bench 2.1. By restricting learnable scaffolding strictly to inner orchestration and isolating test boundaries, the training pipeline avoids common reward-hacking failure modes.

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