Skills

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30 papers in the last four weeks, down 43% on the four weeks before. 0.4% of all new papers.

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  1. SKILL.state: Scalable Long-Horizon Agent Skills

    Aug 26, 2026Sanket Badhe, Priyanka Tiwari, Jonghyun ChungLong-Horizon AgentsSkills

  2. Evo-Harness: Context-to-Harness Skill Compilation for Self-Evolving Agents

    Aug 15, 2026Tianxin Wei, Zhan Shi, Minhua Lin +14Self-Evolving AgentsLarge Language Model Agents

  3. LittleLearner: Language Models Under Pedagogically Controlled Knowledge Exposure

    Aug 13, 2026Fanfei Li, Jana Zeller, Manuel Prada-Corral +4CurriculumPedagogical Frameworks

  4. ERSkill: Evolving for Skill-Guided Adaptive Memory Retrieval

    Aug 13, 2026Haolong Chen, Liang Zhang, Zhuo Li +2Large Language Model AgentsLong-Term Memory

  5. @skills: Attention is all you have

    Aug 12, 2026Li Yin, Zhi Li, Zhan Shi +4Skills

  6. DIVE: Unlocking Self-Improvement in Frozen Language Models Through Diversity-Driven Skill Evolution

    Aug 12, 2026Siheng Xiong, Ali Payani, Oguzhan Gungordu +1Self-Evolving Skill LibrariesFrozen Language Model

  7. Principal Trait Analysis: Towards Deriving "Skills" in Human-AI Collaboration

    Aug 11, 2026Hunter McNichols, Kai Du, Andrew LanHuman-Ai CollaborationHuman-Ai Interaction

  8. Better, Faster, Stronger: Programmatic Skill Learning Best Reduces Agent Cost

    Aug 11, 2026Zixi Huang, Xiheng Wang, Andrew Wang +4SkillsSelf-Improving Agents

  9. SkillZip: Evaluation-Free Skill Compression for Self-Evolving Agents by Discovering Reusable Structure

    Aug 11, 2026Xiaofan Bai, Hongqiang Lin, Chao Liu +4SkillsSelf-Evolving Agents

  10. BooST: Bridging Semantics and Motions for Efficient Skill Transfer

    Aug 11, 2026Jusuk Lee, Daesol Cho, Jonghun Shin +4Human-To-Robot TransferParameter-Efficient Adaptation

  11. Distill Skills into Weights, Not Prompts: Abstract Skills as Privileged Signals for On-Policy Self-Distillation

    Aug 10, 2026Yubo Jiang, Fengying Xie, Zhiguo Jiang +1Unsupervised On-Policy Self-DistillationDataset Distillation

  12. Skills in Weights, Memory in Code: Hybrid Learning for Memory-Dependent Robot Manipulation

    Aug 10, 2026Yunhao Zhao, Zhenyang Ni, Haoyang Chen +2Diffusion-Based Vision-Language-ActionsSkills

  13. SkillSentry: Reliable Skill Execution for LLM Agents via Runtime Assurance

    Aug 10, 2026You Lu, Xinyu Huang, Bihuan Chen +1Large Language Model AgentsSkills

  14. Emotion2Skill: Model-Internal Emotion Signals for Adaptive Skill Selection and Evolution

    Aug 10, 2026Bohan Lin, Hejia Geng, Xinyi Xie +5Agent Skill RetrievalSkills

  15. From Relevance to Execution Utility: Reward-Aware Dynamic Execution Gating for Skill-Based LLM Agents

    Aug 10, 2026Liang He, Jingbo Wen, Hongyu Gu +5SkillsRelevance

  16. Branch2Skill: Efficient Skill Evolution Through Reasoning Trees

    Aug 9, 2026Yanwei Ren, Haotian Zhang, Likang Xiao +5Skill EvolutionReasoning Trajectory

  17. SkillReason: Reasoning-Enhanced Agent Skill Retrieval for Implicit User Requests

    Aug 9, 2026Donghong Jiang, Endian Lin, Luoping Cui +6Agent Skill RetrievalSkills

  18. What Keeps Agent Skills from Being Reusable? Evidence from 138K SKILL.md Files

    Aug 9, 2026Chi Zhang, Yimin Liu, Xinze Chen +1Reusable Agent SkillsSkills

  19. OBLIVION: Workflow-Level Operational Skill Unlearning for Deployed Agents

    Aug 8, 2026Zhengyang Shan, Xu Qian, Jiayun Xin +3SkillsRemediation

  20. SkillSmith: Enhancing Locally Deployed Agents via Automatic Skill Construction and Evolution

    Aug 8, 2026Xinle Jiang, Remy Xie, Ming TangSkillsEvolutionary Optimization Methods

  21. SkillProx: Self-Evolving Agent Skills via Proximal Textual Gradient Descent

    Aug 7, 2026Mingxuan Zheng, Yujin Zhou, Chuxue Cao +6Skills

  22. SkillConsist: Detecting Inconsistencies in Agent Skills via Bidirectional Graph Alignment

    Aug 7, 2026Chaofan Meng, Yuhang Zheng, Yingnan Zhou +1Agent Skill RetrievalSkills

  23. Representation Handoffs for OpenArm-Based Laboratory Mobile Manipulation

    Aug 7, 2026Yang Shen, Chonghao Cheng, Ziyi Zhao +6HandoffSkills

  24. MemWM: Memory-Augmented Text-Based World Model

    Aug 7, 2026Yujun Wang, Tao Zhang, Jinhe Bi +9World ModelsNext-State Prediction

  25. BONSAI: Evolvability-Guided Tree Search over Skills

    Aug 7, 2026Yash Priya Shastri, Anand Eswaran, Adnan Qidwai +2SkillsTree Search

  26. An Agentic Hybrid Top-Down and Bottom-Up Approach to Knowledge Graph Generation

    Aug 7, 2026Emma Jouffroy, Warren Jouanneau, Marc PalyartKnowledge GraphsSkills

  27. Ask-E: An Environment for Calibrated Question Generation

    Aug 7, 2026Sarah Pratt, Jae Sung Park, Scott Geng +1Faithful Question GenerationQuestion

  28. SkillEval: Decomposing Agent Skill Quality into Interpretable Signals

    Aug 7, 2026Jiahui Han, Qinuo Li, Ziheng Peng +6Agent Skill RetrievalSkills

  29. SkillAligner: Treating Retrieved Skills as Adaptable Drafts at Execution Time

    Aug 7, 2026Qinfeng Li, Dalin He, Yuntai Bao +7SkillsSmooth Execution

  30. Learning Globally Reusable Skills for Coding Agents

    Aug 6, 2026Chen Yang, Jiashuo Tian, Ziqi Wang +3Self-Evolving Skill LibrariesSkills

  31. SkillTFM: Gated Skill Evolution for Training-Free Adaptation of Tabular Foundation Models

    Aug 6, 2026Yi He, Zhengkang Guan, Anpeng Wu +3Tabular Foundation ModelsTabular Learning

  32. SkillHEX: Improving Agent Skills via Hypothesis-Driven Autonomous Exploration and Exploitation

    Aug 6, 2026Yuru Feng, Yaoqi Chen, Beidi Zhao +7Self-Evolving Skill LibrariesSkills

  33. SkillZip: Contract-Preserving Graph Compression for Scalable Agent Skill Libraries

    Aug 6, 2026Xingyu Tan, Xiaoyang Wang, Qing Liu +4Reusable Agent SkillsSkills

  34. When Experience Becomes Instruction: Trajectory Poisoning in Self-Evolving Agent Skill Systems

    Aug 6, 2026Jialuo Chen, Lingqi Jiang, Xinhao Deng +7Skill EvolutionPoisoning

  35. Search2Skill: Skill Distillation Beyond Knowledge Boundaries Via Rubric-Based Reinforcement Learning

    Aug 5, 2026Muyang Ye, Tian Lan, Feihu Jiang +10Skill EvolutionSkills

  36. Skill-Use: Can LLMs Actually Use Skills in Agentic Harnesses?

    Aug 5, 2026Jinyi Han, Yuanjian Xu, Ying Liao +6SkillsAgent Harness

  37. What Is a Skill Worth? Structure-Aware Shapley Valuation of Agent Skills

    Aug 5, 2026Tao Li, Junfeng Liu, Qinghua Zhao +5SkillsAgentic Evaluations

  38. SkillTrace: Multi-Trace Provenance Auditing for LLM-Agent Skill Reuse

    Aug 5, 2026Jialuo Chen, Minghe Wang, Lingqi Jiang +7SkillsReuse

  39. Behavioral Skill Reconstruction: Reconstructing Hidden Functionality from LLM Agent Skills

    Aug 4, 2026Peichun Hua, Haoxuan Xu, Mengyuan LiSkillsIndirect Prompt Injection

  40. Logic Before Language: Pre-pretraining on Formal Derivations Fosters Skill Acquisition and Compressibility

    Aug 4, 2026Jo-Ku Cheng, Nikolaos Aletras, Marco ValentinoLarge Language Model PretrainingPretraining

  41. ContinualSkillBench: Can LLM Agents Truly Evolve Their Capabilities?

    Aug 4, 2026Tianyi Guan, Yiding Wang, Haotong Yang +5Self-Evolving Skill LibrariesSkills

  42. Field-Aware Agent Skill Retrieval

    Aug 3, 2026Paimon Goulart, Liang Wu, Kelly Wan +2SkillsSimilarity and Metrics

  43. SkillTrace: Traversing a Query-Skill Graph for Composable LLM Agents

    Aug 3, 2026Yue Yao, Shengyuan Wang, Xin Chen +4SkillsLarge Language Model Agents

  44. Weights or Skills? A Survey of Robot-Learning Techniques: from Action-Predicting Weights to Robots that Write their Own Skills

    Aug 3, 2026Gaytri Jena, Kapil Wanaskar, Vinija Jain +3Unsupervised Skill DiscoverySkills

  45. TraceCompiler: Skill-Guided Mining and Compilation of LLM Agent Traces into Mostly Deterministic Workflows

    Aug 3, 2026Salma El Yadouni, Guanyi LiTracesLanguage-Model Agents

  46. Don't Offer What Can't Be Done: Deterministic Executability Gating for LLM Skill Selection at Scale

    Aug 2, 2026Ortal Ashkenazi, Vitalii Kloz, Mykhailo UlianchenkoLarge Language Model AgentsSkills

  47. Light-Loco-Parkour: Versatile Perceptive Whole-Body Locomotion via Multi-Skill Distillation

    Aug 1, 2026Hongming Chen, Zhuoran Li, Hongxi Wang +9Whole-Body ControlLocomotion

  48. Developing Combined Manipulation and Locomotion Skills with Interaction Representation and Skill Composition

    Jul 31, 2026Fanxing Meng, Jing XiaoRobotic Manipulation PoliciesHand-Object Interaction Detection

  49. Rethinking Self-Evolving Agent Skills: Feedback Dynamics over Multiple Rounds

    Jul 31, 2026Yuxuan Liu, Zhaochen Su, Yuhao Zhang +9Skill EvolutionSkills

  50. Skillsets on the Chain: A Blockchain-based Zero-Trust Framework for Agentic AI Networking

    Jul 31, 2026Yayu Gao, Yong Xiao, Hao Hu +5Trustworthy Artificial IntelligenceAI Trustworthiness

  51. SemAnCorr: Semantic Anchored Correspondence for Zero-Shot Manipulation Skill Transfer

    Jul 30, 2026Xiaoxiang Dong, William Baron, Hongyi Chen +3Object-Centric RepresentationsSkills

  52. Tycho: Active Abstraction with Programmatic World Models for ARC-AGI-3

    Jul 30, 2026Jens Lehmann, Andrei Aioanei, Sahar VahdatiCoding AgentsWorld Models

  53. UniCross: Unified Cross-Skill Dexterous Manipulation Synthesis

    Jul 30, 2026Hui Zhang, Julian Ferchow, Jie Song +1Dexterous ManipulationLong-Horizon Manipulation