Cool new paper from NVIDIA.
Looks like agentic coding is moving into hardware design.
HORIZON treats hardware design as repository-level code evolution. A Markdown harness becomes a project pack with domain knowledge, an executable evaluator, an acceptance predicate, and a git policy.
The agent then evolves an isolated worktree.
That is a strong pattern because hardware design needs executable checks. The verifier harness becomes the real interface between the agent and the design task.
The paper reports 100% benchmark completion across several hardware design suites, which makes this one worth tracking even if you do not work on EDA.
Paper: https://arxiv.org/abs/2606.28279
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