Agentic Hardware Design as Repository-Level Code Evolution

This work matters because it introduces a self-evolving agent framework that reframes hardware design as repository-level code evolution using an executable evaluator and acceptance predicate.

We present HORIZON, a self-evolving agent framework that treats hardware design as repository-level code evolution. A Markdown harness is compiled into a project pack containing domain knowledge, an executable evaluator, an acceptance predicate, and a git/runtime policy; a…