GEOS

SIGA: Self-evolving grounding adapters enable coding agents to operate scientific simulators

SIGA (Simulator-Interface Grounding Adapter) is a lightweight adapter framework that equips general-purpose coding agents with the executable contracts needed to configure and run specialized scientific simulators. Evaluated primarily on GEOS (a multiphysics subsurface simulator), SIGA achieves a ~36x wall-clock speedup over human experts and improves TreeSim scores from 0.720 to 0.789 on held-out tasks, with self-evolution via trajectory rewriting yielding further gains. The system also transfers to OpenFOAM and LAMMPS, revealing that the dominant grounding mechanism (validation vs. memory/retrieval) shifts depending on the interface type. The work frames simulator setup as an agent-tool interface grounding problem, offering a generalizable pattern for deploying coding agents on domain-specific software.