The Trinity:Capability-Driven Recursive Self-Improvement for Multimodal Agents
Abstract
The Trinity framework recursively improves multimodal agents by organizing tasks into a capability tree, generating simulated training worlds, and routing specialized harness modules to boost performance on diverse benchmarks.
Multimodal intelligence can be viewed as human-guided co-evolution between worlds and agents through interaction. However, scaling this process faces two bottlenecks: constructing heterogeneous, verifiable environments is costly, and manual Harness iteration cannot keep pace with growing task diversity and complexity. A key insight is that tasks with different modalities and surface forms can share the same underlying capability requirements. We therefore introduce The Trinity, a recursive self-improvement framework coupling world generation with Harness evolution through three roles: Creator, Explorer, and Evolver. Drawing on verified execution trajectories, Evolver shifts the basis of task organization from surface categories to shared requirements, reorganizing the original task tree into a hierarchical capability tree. We introduce Capability-Driven Real2Sim2Real: for heterogeneous tasks at the same node, Creator abstracts their common requirements into simplified, verifiable simulated worlds for capability learning, while evaluation on original tasks measures transfer. Along this capability tree, Explorer progressively evolves reusable capability modules through selective inheritance, forming a Harness tree whose validated updates accumulate across iterations within a fixed topology. The resulting Harnesses specialize in different capabilities, motivating a Capability-Aware Harness Router that uses public task information to select compatible module configurations from the tree. Our evolved Harnesses improve mean performance by 34 points across 28 training benchmarks and 26 points across 18 unseen benchmarks, including two real-world embodied tasks.
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The Trinity lets agents build their own training worlds around capabilities shared across tasks and recursively evolve reusable harnesses, gaining 26 points on average across 18 unseen benchmarks, including real-world robotics.
The 26-point mean gain on unseen benchmarks is striking. One detail matters for interpreting transfer: Section 4.1 runs five preparation trials for each benchmark and Harness pair and turns their trajectories into skills before scoring Train and Unseen. The reported gain therefore includes adaptation to the target benchmark. Could you add a no-preparation column for the 18 unseen benchmarks with the same Harnesses and router, plus the token or compute cost of those five trials? That would isolate what transfers before target-specific skill learning.
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