Rather than repeatedly asking an agent to improve itself, give the editor structured evidence about what previous edits actually did.
HGM-Dual combines lineage-aware change records with general and error-targeted candidate generation. On DeepPlanning, authors report travel accuracy of 64.38% versus 56.25% for the strongest listed HGM baseline at 4,000 evaluation cases, and matching baseline endpoints with two to four times fewer evaluations.
Evidence & limits. These are author-reported preprint results. The 120-example evaluation includes the 60 optimization examples, so headline scores are not wholly held out. Only travel and shopping domains are tested, with domain-specific error categorization. Evaluation counts are not total dollar costs.
Track edit → changed behavior → regression → decision. Re-test the apparent budget saving on a fresh holdout before promoting the evolved harness.