APEX: Adaptive Principle EXtraction A Three-Layer Self-Evolution Framework for Production AI Agents

In three linesAPEX is a self-improvement framework for production AI agents that co-evolves three dimensions: prompt harness (L1), behavioural principles (L2), and workflow topology (L3). Tested on Joe, an NVIDIA Nemotron super-agent, APEX achieves a Health Score of 0.570 (+90% vs baseline) and distils 6 reusable principles using only 4 LLM calls.

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