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SkillSeek: Revisiting Agent Skill Retrieval at Marketplace Scale
Sep 30, 2026Guanqun Yang, Wenlong Zhang, Tian Shi +1Agent Skill Retrieval Skills
Stevens Institute of Technology, Hoboken, NJ, USA · Independent Researcher
COBRA-Skills: Contextual Bandit-Guided Evolution for Agent Skill Optimization
Sep 12, 2026Pingchen Lu, Xiangyi Wang, Xiang Li +6Self-Evolving Skill Libraries Agent Skill Retrieval
The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Shenzhen · Tianjin University · The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology (Guangzhou) +1
Who Delegates to AI? Evidence from Agent Configurations in Github
Aug 19, 2026Hyeongjae Lee, Jihyang Cheon, Lanu KimDelegation Artificial Intelligence Deployment
Graduate School of Digital Humanities and Social Sciences, Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology (KAIST), Daejeon, Republic of Korea · Graduate School of Data Science, Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology (KAIST), Daejeon, Republic of Korea
SkillShapley: Boundary-Adaptive Shapley Valuation for Skill Step Attribution in LLM Agents
Aug 13, 2026Chang Liu, Yuqi Zhang, Yiman Zhong +3Agent Skill Retrieval Large Language Model Agents
1Beihang University, Beijing, China · 2Shandong University, Jinan, China
Emotion2Skill: Model-Internal Emotion Signals for Adaptive Skill Selection and Evolution
Aug 10, 2026Bohan Lin, Hejia Geng, Xinyi Xie +5Agent Skill Retrieval Skills
University of Science and Technology of China (USTC) · 2Suzhou Institute for Advanced Research, USTC · University of Oxford +2
SkillReason: Reasoning-Enhanced Agent Skill Retrieval for Implicit User Requests
Aug 9, 2026Donghong Jiang, Endian Lin, Luoping Cui +6Agent Skill Retrieval Skills
Beijing University of Posts and Telecommunications · Peking University · Beijing ZOYEN Technology Co., Ltd. +1
SkillConsist: Detecting Inconsistencies in Agent Skills via Bidirectional Graph Alignment
Aug 7, 2026Chaofan Meng, Yuhang Zheng, Yingnan Zhou +1Agent Skill Retrieval Skills
College of Cryptology and Cyber Science, Nankai University
SkillEval: Decomposing Agent Skill Quality into Interpretable Signals
Aug 7, 2026Jiahui Han, Qinuo Li, Ziheng Peng +6Agent Skill Retrieval Skills
1Xi’an Jiaotong University · 2Shanghai AI Laboratory · 5Harbin Institute of Technology +2
Inside the Skill Market: From Software Engineering Activities to Reusable Agent Skills
Jul 10, 2026Jialun Cao, Xinru Yan, Songqiang Chen +3Software Engineering Agent Skill Retrieval
The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology · University of Chinese Academy of Sciences · Institute of Software, Chinese Academy of Sciences +1
Benign in Isolation, Harmful in Composition: Security Risks in Agent Skill Ecosystems
Jun 13, 2026Yi Xie, Jiawei Du, Yu Cheng +2Agent Skill Retrieval Security
East China Normal University, Shanghai, China · Centre for Frontier AI Research A*STAR, Singapore · Shanghai Innovation Institute, Shanghai, China
Runtime Skill Audit: Targeted Runtime Probing for Agent Skill Security
Jun 10, 2026Tu Lan, Chaowei XiaoAgent Skill Retrieval Malicious Agents
Johns Hopkins University
SkillJuror: Measuring How Agent Skill Organization Changes Runtime Behavior
Jun 10, 2026Zhiyu Chen, Zihan Guo, Bo Huang +4Agent Skill Retrieval Skills
Tongji University · Shanghai Innovation Institute · Sun Yat-sen University +1
Skill Coverage: A Test Adequacy Metric for Agent Skills
Jun 9, 2026Boyin Tan, Xiaowei Huang, Youcheng SunReusable Agent Skills Agent Skill Retrieval
1Mohamed bin Zayed University of Artificial Intelligence Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates · University of Liverpool Liverpool, United Kingdom
Harnessing Agent Skills: Architectural Patterns and a Reference Architecture for Skill-Mediated LLM Agents
May 29, 2026Boming Xia, Liming Zhu, Zhenchang Xing +3Agent Skill Retrieval Skills
Responsible AI Research (RAIR) Centre, Adelaide, SA, Australia · Adelaide University, Adelaide, SA, Australia · CSIRO, Sydney, NSW, Australia +1
From Human Guidance to Autonomy: Agent Skill System for End-to-End LLM Deployment on Spatial NPUs
May 27, 2026Jiajie Li, Erwei Wang, Zhiru Zhang +1LLM Inference Optimization Agent Skill Retrieval
Cornell University · AMD
Under the Hood of SKILL.md: Semantic Supply-chain Attacks on AI Agent Skill Registry
May 12, 2026Shoumik Saha, Kazem Faghih, Soheil FeiziReusable Agent Skills Agent Skill Retrieval
Department of Computer Science, University of Maryland - College Park
SkCC: Portable and Secure Skill Compilation for Cross-Framework LLM Agents
May 5, 2026Yipeng Ouyang, Yi Xiao, Yuhao Gu +1Agent Skill Retrieval Large Language Model Agents
Sun Yat-sen University
Co-Evolving LLM Decision and Skill Bank Agents for Long-Horizon Tasks
Apr 22, 2026Xiyang Wu, Zongxia Li, Guangyao Shi +5Agent Skill Retrieval Large Language Model Decisions
University of Maryland · University of Southern California · Good Start Labs +2
SkillLearnBench: Benchmarking Continual Learning Methods for Agent Skill Generation on Real-World Tasks
Apr 22, 2026Shanshan Zhong, Yi Lu, Jingjie Ning +7Agent Skill Retrieval Skills
Carnegie Mellon University · Amazon AGI
Skilldex: A Package Manager and Registry for Agent Skill Packages with Hierarchical Scope-Based Distribution
Apr 18, 2026Sampriti Saha, Pranav HemanthAgent Skill Retrieval Skills
Pandemonium Research
Experience Compression Spectrum: Unifying Memory, Skills, and Rules in LLM Agents
Apr 17, 2026Xing Zhang, Guanghui Wang, Yanwei Cui +4Large Language Model Agents Long-Term Agent Memory
AWS Generative AI Innovation Center · HSBC Holdings Plc., HSBC Technology Center, China.
Right Family, Wrong Skill: Evaluating Risk Exposure in Agent Skill Retrieval
Date pendingJiandong Ding, Honglei Ji, Ming Liu +1Reusable Agent Skills Agent Skill Retrieval
Huawei Technologies Co., Ltd. Shanghai, China · Department of Obstetrics Shanghai East Hospital, Tongji University School of Medicine Shanghai, China

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SkillSeek: Revisiting Agent Skill Retrieval at Marketplace Scale

Guanqun Yang, Wenlong Zhang, Tian Shi, Ping Wang

Stevens Institute of Technology, Hoboken, NJ, USA · Independent Researcher

Agent Skill Retrieval Skills

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Anthropic's Agent Skills package reusable procedural know-how for an LLM agent into SKILL.md directories, and open-source aggregations have grown past 230,000 skills, making selection rather than authoring the bottleneck. The standing answer in the literature outsources selection to the agent itself: an LLM-mediated retrieval loop that rewrites queries and refines candidates inside the agent's decision loop, paying LLM tokens on every task. We present SkillSeek, an open-source two-stage skill retriever built from the standard IR recipe (a BGE-base bi-encoder feeding a small cross-encoder, exposed over MCP). Across a

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grid of pool, backbone, and method on the 89-task SkillsBench benchmark, SkillSeek reaches observed parity with the LLM-mediated loop of Liu et al. at essentially no extra cost: plain bm25 alone records a pass rate at or above their refined loop on three of four settings, and a small cross-encoder covers the remaining difference on the fourth. A first-stage recall ceiling explains the pattern, and total per-trial spend drops from USD 51.30 to USD 27.54 (within fifty cents of the no-skill baseline). Under the SkillsBench tasks and OpenHands harness we tested, this positions the standard IR recipe as a strong default for agent-skill retrieval, with LLM-mediated alternatives a natural fit for cases where deterministic methods fall short.

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