{"query":"Work with External Agents","corpusVersion":"local","generatedAt":"2026-11-02T06:34:58.311Z","results":[{"blockId":"improve.work-evolve#work-with-external-agents","pageId":"improve.work-evolve","title":"Work with External Agents","pageTitle":"Work with External Agents","url":"https://teammately.ai/docs/improve/external-agents.md","humanUrl":"https://teammately.ai/docs/improve/external-agents#work-with-external-agents","markdownUrl":"https://teammately.ai/docs/improve/external-agents.md","sectionId":"work-with-external-agents","kind":"task","productArea":"improve","score":2266.490042813118,"reasons":["search_match","title_match","term_match","prefix_or_fuzzy_match"],"markdown":"# Work with External Agents\n\nExternal Agents gives your coding agent a concrete improvement task grounded in the selected Benchmark Version. The agent works in your real repository; Teammately supplies the applicable Cases, Policies, Rubrics and recorded results."},{"blockId":"improve.overview#work-with-an-external-agent","pageId":"improve.overview","title":"Work with an external agent","pageTitle":"Harness Improvement","url":"https://teammately.ai/docs/improve.md","humanUrl":"https://teammately.ai/docs/improve#work-with-an-external-agent","markdownUrl":"https://teammately.ai/docs/improve.md","sectionId":"work-with-an-external-agent","kind":"concept","productArea":"improve","score":1751.8186661734992,"reasons":["search_match","term_match","prefix_or_fuzzy_match"],"markdown":"## Work with an external agent\n\nCopy the task from External Agents. Your coding agent retrieves the pinned context, inspects your repository and carries out the requested implementation and evaluation. The copied task is not a hosted Teammately agent Session.\n\nImported responses and managed Harness executions return to ordinary Benchmark Evaluations. Comparison does not automatically adopt code or activate a candidate."},{"blockId":"improve.work-evolve#execution-choices","pageId":"improve.work-evolve","title":"Execution choices","pageTitle":"Work with External Agents","url":"https://teammately.ai/docs/improve/external-agents.md","humanUrl":"https://teammately.ai/docs/improve/external-agents#execution-choices","markdownUrl":"https://teammately.ai/docs/improve/external-agents.md","sectionId":"execution-choices","kind":"task","productArea":"improve","score":1396.496064426073,"reasons":["search_match","page_title_match","term_match","prefix_or_fuzzy_match"],"markdown":"## Execution choices\n\nA Teammately Harness and source upload are optional. Customer-executed responses are the default path for the agent's real application. Managed Harness execution requires a deliberate choice.\n\nThe product data MCP supplies read-only context, instructions, results and comparisons. The CLI owns local files and submission operations. The documentation MCP only retrieves these manuals.\n\nStart with [CLI authentication](/docs/cli/authentication) and [product MCP setup](/docs/cli/mcp), then follow [external output submission](/docs/cli/external-outputs) or the optional [managed Harness workflow](/docs/cli/managed-harness)."},{"blockId":"improve.work-evolve#steps","pageId":"improve.work-evolve","title":"Steps","pageTitle":"Work with External Agents","url":"https://teammately.ai/docs/improve/external-agents.md","humanUrl":"https://teammately.ai/docs/improve/external-agents#steps","markdownUrl":"https://teammately.ai/docs/improve/external-agents.md","sectionId":"steps","kind":"task","productArea":"improve","score":1317.6349906347011,"reasons":["search_match","page_title_match","term_match","prefix_or_fuzzy_match"],"markdown":"## Steps\n\n1. Open **Harness improvement → External Agents**.\n2. Select the Benchmark Version. Changing it clears local criterion and reference-Run selections.\n3. Focus on the whole Benchmark or choose up to 20 approved and applicable Policy and Rubric Versions.\n4. Optionally select one individual reference Run. No Run is silently selected.\n5. Choose the allowed improvement direction: supported practices, prompt only, model only, the same model family, or model configuration only.\n6. Copy the task, including setup instructions when needed, into your coding-agent conversation.\n7. Have the agent inspect the actual repository, retrieve the pinned criteria and Run context, implement the change and evaluate it.\n8. Inspect resulting Runs through ordinary Benchmark Evaluations.\n\nThe copied task includes the Project Agent Brief when present. Credentials do not belong in that text."},{"blockId":"improve.work-evolve#prerequisites","pageId":"improve.work-evolve","title":"Prerequisites","pageTitle":"Work with External Agents","url":"https://teammately.ai/docs/improve/external-agents.md","humanUrl":"https://teammately.ai/docs/improve/external-agents#prerequisites","markdownUrl":"https://teammately.ai/docs/improve/external-agents.md","sectionId":"prerequisites","kind":"task","productArea":"improve","score":1296.5913760928408,"reasons":["search_match","page_title_match","term_match","prefix_or_fuzzy_match"],"markdown":"## Prerequisites\n\n- A selectable Benchmark Version.\n- Access to the application repository and authorization for the intended changes.\n- A coding agent connected through the setup supplied with the task.\n- An optional reference Run that genuinely represents the application starting point."},{"blockId":"improve.work-evolve#related-reference-pages","pageId":"improve.work-evolve","title":"Related reference pages","pageTitle":"Work with External Agents","url":"https://teammately.ai/docs/improve/external-agents.md","humanUrl":"https://teammately.ai/docs/improve/external-agents#related-reference-pages","markdownUrl":"https://teammately.ai/docs/improve/external-agents.md","sectionId":"related-reference-pages","kind":"task","productArea":"improve","score":1025.8580505275545,"reasons":["search_match","page_title_match","term_match","prefix_or_fuzzy_match"],"markdown":"## Related reference pages\n\n{% related-card-grid title=\"Related reference pages\" %}\n- [Harness Improvement](/docs/improve)\n- [Import External Evaluation Outputs](/docs/benchmark-evaluations/output-mapping)\n- [Evaluation Results](/docs/benchmark-evaluations/results)\n- [Project Context](/docs/agent-setup/project-context)\n{% /related-card-grid %}"},{"blockId":"improve.work-evolve#common-failure-modes","pageId":"improve.work-evolve","title":"Common failure modes","pageTitle":"Work with External Agents","url":"https://teammately.ai/docs/improve/external-agents.md","humanUrl":"https://teammately.ai/docs/improve/external-agents#common-failure-modes","markdownUrl":"https://teammately.ai/docs/improve/external-agents.md","sectionId":"common-failure-modes","kind":"task","productArea":"improve","score":1020.6348638190374,"reasons":["search_match","page_title_match","term_match","prefix_or_fuzzy_match"],"markdown":"## Common failure modes\n\n- Stopping after tool setup or context retrieval.\n- Assuming a Harness upload is mandatory.\n- Treating copied text as an executed Session.\n- Using a reference Run from unrelated code.\n- Claiming private agent work before returned artifacts or results exist."},{"blockId":"improve.work-evolve#object-and-state-changes","pageId":"improve.work-evolve","title":"Object and state changes","pageTitle":"Work with External Agents","url":"https://teammately.ai/docs/improve/external-agents.md","humanUrl":"https://teammately.ai/docs/improve/external-agents#object-and-state-changes","markdownUrl":"https://teammately.ai/docs/improve/external-agents.md","sectionId":"object-and-state-changes","kind":"task","productArea":"improve","score":1002.1800079754834,"reasons":["search_match","page_title_match","term_match","prefix_or_fuzzy_match"],"markdown":"## Object and state changes\n\nThe composer keeps selections locally and copies text. It creates no hosted agent Session, transcript, durable handoff object, automatic code adoption or Harness activation. Later submitted responses or managed execution create their own ordinary Run records."}]}