cs.AIOct 16, 2026

Darwin-Claw: Environment-Adaptive Experience Consolidation for Recursively Self-Evolving Agents

Authors: Mingze Yin, Xiaohan Wang, Dian Li, Longfei Luo, Jiahong Yan, Yiheng Zhu, Chang-Yu Hsieh

Organizations: Zhejiang University · Tencent · Zhongguancun Academy

Abstract

While Large Language Model (LLM) agents have demonstrated remarkable capabilities across complex tasks, they predominantly operate in isolated sessions, lacking the ability to continually learn from historical interactions or adapt to user-specific environments. Existing self-evolution paradigms often indiscriminately inject raw interaction trajectories into memory or skill modules, leading to obscured behavioral patterns and compromised update controllability. Furthermore, as foundational LLM reasoning improves, the bottleneck for agentic evolution shifts from accumulating generic knowledge to effectively managing situational experience. To address this, we propose Darwin-Claw, an environment-adaptive self-evolving framework that systematically distills episodic experiences to drive the comprehensive evolution of operational skills and durable memory. Theoretically grounded in an iterative agent-actor and evolver-critic co-adaptation, Darwin-Claw introduces a Hierarchical Experience Consolidation System that extracts fine-grained error attributions and generalizes them into dynamically updated prototype vectors. This structured situational experience serves as interaction patches for context-sensitive perception and explicit optimization signals for skill refinement. Practically, Darwin-Claw is a readily deployable, automated framework compatible with mainstream agent systems without requiring manual curation. Extensive experiments on WildClawBench demonstrate that Darwin-Claw yields substantial performance improvements, establishing a controllable and stable pathway for the continual, user-centric adaptation of autonomous agents in real-world ecosystems.

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