ClawGym II: Exploring Black-Box RL on Agent Harness

Renmin University of China

Research official + media 2 src. ~1 min

Unified black-box RL framework for training agents on long-horizon tasks wrapped in complex harnesses, built on sandboxed execution, a serving proxy that captures model calls, and tree-structured trajectory reconstruction that supports both PPO and critic-free GRPO. On Qwen3-30A3B it gains +9.98 Pass@1 on OpenClaw and +14.81 on Claude Code, stable across 200-400 steps; gains also transfer to JobBench and OfficeQA.

Why it matters

HF: 33 upvotes. Practical recipe for RL over third-party agent harnesses where the policy surface is opaque.

Importance: 3/5

HF Daily 33 upvotes, open-weights / GA marker

Sources

official arXiv:2608.16798