{"slug": "agentic-hardware-design-as-repository-level-code-evolution", "title": "Agentic Hardware Design as Repository-Level Code Evolution", "summary": "Researchers introduced HORIZON, a self-evolving agent framework that treats hardware design as repository-level code evolution, achieving 100% benchmark completion across ChipBench, RTLLM, Verilog-Eval, and nine CVDP categories. The framework uses a hands-free agent loop to evolve isolated git worktrees, extending prior work on repository-scale self-evolution to hardware design artifacts.", "body_md": "# Computer Science > Hardware Architecture\n\n[Submitted on 26 Jun 2026]\n\n# Title:Agentic Hardware Design as Repository-Level Code Evolution\n\n[View PDF](/pdf/2606.28279)\n\n[HTML (experimental)](https://arxiv.org/html/2606.28279v1)\n\nAbstract: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 hands-free agent loop then evolves an isolated git worktree, using repository operations for state management, tracing, and replay. This extends prior works of repository-scale self-evolution from EDA software systems, to hardware-design artifacts themselves. We evaluate our approach on ChipBench, RTLLM, Verilog-Eval, and nine CVDP categories, achieving 100\\% benchmark completion across all suites with a fully hands-free agentic loop. However, we do not claim that agentic AI for hardware design is solved: these benchmarks are controlled proxies for a much broader engineering problem in chip design. Section~\\ref{sec:discuss} examines the limitations of the current study and highlights open research challenges.\n\n### References & Citations\n\nLoading...\n\n# Bibliographic and Citation Tools\n\nBibliographic Explorer\n\n*(*[What is the Explorer?](https://info.arxiv.org/labs/showcase.html#arxiv-bibliographic-explorer))\nConnected Papers\n\n*(*[What is Connected Papers?](https://www.connectedpapers.com/about))\nLitmaps\n\n*(*[What is Litmaps?](https://www.litmaps.co/))\nscite Smart Citations\n\n*(*[What are Smart Citations?](https://www.scite.ai/))# Code, Data and Media Associated with this Article\n\nalphaXiv\n\n*(*[What is alphaXiv?](https://alphaxiv.org/))\nCatalyzeX Code Finder for Papers\n\n*(*[What is CatalyzeX?](https://www.catalyzex.com))\nDagsHub\n\n*(*[What is DagsHub?](https://dagshub.com/))\nGotit.pub\n\n*(*[What is GotitPub?](http://gotit.pub/faq))\nHugging Face\n\n*(*[What is Huggingface?](https://huggingface.co/huggingface))\nScienceCast\n\n*(*[What is ScienceCast?](https://sciencecast.org/welcome))# Demos\n\n# Recommenders and Search Tools\n\nInfluence Flower\n\n*(*[What are Influence Flowers?](https://influencemap.cmlab.dev/))\nCORE Recommender\n\n*(*[What is CORE?](https://core.ac.uk/services/recommender))# arXivLabs: experimental projects with community collaborators\n\narXivLabs is a framework that allows collaborators to develop and share new arXiv features directly on our website.\n\nBoth individuals and organizations that work with arXivLabs have embraced and accepted our values of openness, community, excellence, and user data privacy. arXiv is committed to these values and only works with partners that adhere to them.\n\nHave an idea for a project that will add value for arXiv's community? [ Learn more about arXivLabs](https://info.arxiv.org/labs/index.html).", "url": "https://wpnews.pro/news/agentic-hardware-design-as-repository-level-code-evolution", "canonical_source": "https://arxiv.org/abs/2606.28279", "published_at": "2026-06-30 19:03:12+00:00", "updated_at": "2026-06-30 19:20:48.400616+00:00", "lang": "en", "topics": ["ai-agents", "ai-research", "ai-tools", "machine-learning"], "entities": ["HORIZON", "ChipBench", "RTLLM", "Verilog-Eval", "CVDP"], "alternates": {"html": "https://wpnews.pro/news/agentic-hardware-design-as-repository-level-code-evolution", "markdown": "https://wpnews.pro/news/agentic-hardware-design-as-repository-level-code-evolution.md", "text": "https://wpnews.pro/news/agentic-hardware-design-as-repository-level-code-evolution.txt", "jsonld": "https://wpnews.pro/news/agentic-hardware-design-as-repository-level-code-evolution.jsonld"}}