Article:Seth Karten, Alex L. Zhang, Kevin Thomas, Sebastian Müller, Prime Intellect Team
Prime Agent: Open-Source Harness for Self-Improving Coding Agents
Prime Intellect has released Prime Agent, an open-source coding harness built on two abstractions: Recursive Language Models (RLM) and Continual Harness. Instead of relying on rigid tool-calling schemas, the agent operates programmatically inside a persistent IPython kernel and dynamically adapts its own configuration during execution.
From Video: Weekly AI Updates: Model Releases, Agent Harnesses, and Developer Tooling (August 2026)