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GEPA-Curator: Curated Learning for Self Improving Agents

GEPA-Curator filters noisy agent failures and retrieves relevant successful runs before prompt optimization, improving results over two baselines across four environments.

arXiv · Oct 27, 2026
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GEPA-Curator adds **task curation** to filter experiences with unreliable learning signals and **prior success retrieval** to add relevant successful trajectories as context. It was evaluated on four environments with Gemini 3.1 Pro and Claude Opus 5 as optimizer models.

Practical Implication

If you optimize prompts from coding-agent runs, separate useful failures from harness issues, stochastic outcomes, and noisy judges; consider reusing successful trajectories for similar tasks.

Agent-Ready Context
GEPA-Curator adds **task curation** to filter experiences with unreliable learning signals and **prior success retrieval** to add relevant successful trajectories as context. It was evaluated on four environments with Gemini 3.1 Pro and Claude Opus 5 as optimizer models.

If you optimize prompts from coding-agent runs, separate useful failures from harness issues, stochastic outcomes, and noisy judges; consider reusing successful trajectories for similar tasks.

The paper reports gains of up to **20.7% over GEPA** and **21.2% over ACE**, but the material does not specify how these gains vary by environment or how much curation costs.
Connected Context · Feed7 Judgment

GEPA-Curator adds two controls to prompt optimization: filter experiences with unreliable learning signals and retrieve relevant successful trajectories. The reported gains are bounded by four environments and two optimizer models; the supplied record leaves variation by environment and curation cost unspecified.

Improving Agents is a Data Mining Problem — Vivek Trivedy, LangChainLangChain describes mining production traces for failures and replayable evals; GEPA-Curator adds a way to screen those experiences for usable learning signals and retrieve relevant successes.The Rise of Verbal Reinforcement LearningThe survey distinguishes feedback retained as context from other learning interventions; GEPA-Curator's successful-trajectory retrieval is a context intervention, while its task curation filters optimizer inputs.FOCUS: Active Critic Learning for Long-Horizon Language Model AgentsFOCUS selectively samples states to improve long-horizon critic estimates, while GEPA-Curator filters whole experiences for reliable learning signals; both address where optimization effort should be spent, at different stages.
Context Map
agentresearch#harness-engineering#prompting#agent-evals
Uncertainty
The paper reports gains of up to **20.7% over GEPA** and **21.2% over ACE**, but the material does not specify how these gains vary by environment or how much curation costs.