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  1. VeriSkill: A Self-Evolution Framework for Program Verification Skills

    Jul 30, 2026Changguo Jia, Tianqi Zhao, Zhiyou Xiao +2Skill EvolutionSkills

    Peking University, Beijing, China · Zhongguancun Laboratory, Beijing, China · Shanghai Jiao Tong University, Shanghai, China

  2. SkillSmith: Learning to Compose Parametric Skills and Textual Knowledge

    Jul 29, 2026Lucio M. Dery, Benedict Aaron Tjandra, Siavash Samiei +4Skills

    Google DeepMind

  3. Skill Use or Skill Theater? Evaluating the Reasoning Backroom in Skill-Augmented Language Agents

    Jul 29, 2026Jinwei Hu, Yi Qi, Xinmiao Huang +3SkillsReasoning Skills

    School of Computer Science and Informatics, University of Liverpool, UK · Department of Computer Science, University of Leeds, UK · Department of Computer Science, Mohamed bin Zayed University of Artificial Intelligence, UAE

  4. SkillMentor: LLM Agent Self-Evolution via Learning Blind-Spot Diagnosis

    Jul 29, 2026Xiaoyi Bao, Yuanzhen Xie, Yunzhi Tan +5Self-Evolving AgentsAgentic Learning

    The Hong Kong Polytechnic University · Work done during an internship at Tencent. · Platform and Content Group, Tencent +1

  5. SkillRise: Agentic Reinforcement Learning for Cross-Task Skill Evolution

    Jul 29, 2026Zhiyuan Yao, Yuxin Chen, Zhengxi Lu +13Self-Evolving Skill LibrariesSkills

    1Zhejiang University · 2National University of Singapore · 3Shanghai Jiao Tong University +1

  6. Rethinking Self-Evolution: A Constrained Exploration-Exploitation Process for Mitigating Skill Overfitting

    Jul 29, 2026Hongqiang Lin, Chao Liu, Xiaofan Bai +4Skill EvolutionSkills

    Zhejiang University · Alibaba Group

  7. Authoring Agent Skills: A Software-Engineering Approach

    Jul 27, 2026Giuseppe DestefanisReusable Agent SkillsSkills

    Department of Computer Science, University College London

  8. Skill Self-Play: Pushing the Frontier of LLM Capability with Co-Evolving Skills

    Jul 24, 2026Siyuan Huang, Pengyu Cheng, Haotian Liu +10Self-EvolutionSelf-Play

    Qwen Large Model Application Team, Alibaba · The Chinese University of Hong Kong · Renmin University of China +5

  9. The Regression Tax: Decomposing Why Skills Help and Hurt LLM Agents

    Jul 24, 2026Darshan Tank, Baran NamaReusable Agent SkillsSkills

    Sentient Labs

  10. Emergent Compositional Skills in Mixture-of-Experts VLAs

    Jul 22, 2026Shlok Shah, Rhiaan Jhaveri, Tharun Kumar Tiruppali Kalidoss +3Robot PoliciesMixture-Of-Experts

    Department of Computer Science, Princeton University, Princeton, NJ, USA · Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Princeton University, Princeton, NJ, USA

  11. OpenSkillRisk: Benchmarking Agent Safety When Using Real-World Risky Third-Party Skills

    Jul 22, 2026Qiyuan Liu, Tingfeng Hui, Kun Zhan +2Reusable Agent SkillsSkills

    Department of Data Science, City University of Hong Kong · Hong Kong Institute of AI for Science, City University of Hong Kong · Beijing University of Posts and Telecommunications +1

  12. Extreme-RGMT: Continual Learning of Highly Dynamic Skills for Robust Generalist Humanoid Control

    Jul 22, 2026Yubiao Ma, Han Yu, Kai Guo +5Full-Body Humanoid ControlWhole-Body

    School of Automation, Beijing Institute of Technology, Beijing 100081, China. · Humanoid Robotics (Shanghai) Co., Ltd., Shanghai 201203, China. · School of Mechanical Engineering, Shandong University, Jinan 250061, China.

  13. Robots Acquire Manipulation Skills in Seconds from a Single Human Video

    Jul 22, 2026Guangyan Chen, Meiling Wang, Te Cui +9Human-To-Robot TransferRobot Systems

    Beijing Institute of Technology · X SQUARE ROBOT · Tsinghua University

  14. TalentCLEF at CLEF2026: Skill and Job Title Intelligence for Human Capital Management

    Jul 22, 2026Luis Gasco, Hermenegildo Fabregat, Laura García-Sardiña +5JobsNatural Language Processing

    Avature Machine Learning, Spain · NLP & IR Group at UNED, Madrid, Spain

  15. Unified Prediction and Planning via Conflict-Aware Disjoint Parameter Training

    Jul 22, 2026Taewon Seo, Seonae Jeon, Giwon Lee +2Robot NavigationObject Goal Navigation

    DGIST, Republic of Korea · KAIST, Republic of Korea

  16. Verifiable Self-Evolution for Open-Ended Dialogue Skills via Future-Feedback Prediction

    Jul 21, 2026ChaoJin Zhao, Xuan JiangSelf-Evolving Skill LibrariesSelf-Evolution

    ByteDance

  17. Skillware: A Software Ontology and Engineering Lifecycle for Persistent Behavioral Artifacts

    Jul 21, 2026Haodi Fan, Zucong LanReusable Agent SkillsSkills

  18. SkillSight: Calibrating Generic Content Bias for Skill Retrieval

    Jul 21, 2026Jinying Xiao, Bin Li, Xiaopeng Li +7SkillsRetrievers

    1National University of Defense Technology · 2Qinghai Normal University · 3Xizang University

  19. From Memory to Skills: Evidence-Grounded Co-Evolution Governance for Long-Horizon LLM Agents

    Jul 18, 2026Bo Tang, Yang Zhang, Guomian Zhuang +8Co-EvolutionSkills

    MemTensor · Hong Kong Polytechnic University · Fuzhou University +2

  20. SkillNav: Score-Level Skill Intervention for Zero-Shot Object Goal Navigation

    Jul 17, 2026Ruijie Sang, Yiqun Duan, Pinhan Fu +3Vision-Language NavigationNavigation

    D-Robotics · HAI Center, University of Technology Sydney · School of Computer Science, Wuhan University

  21. Who Grades the Grader? Co-Evolving Evaluation Metrics and Skills for Self-Improving LLM Agents

    Jul 14, 2026Xing Zhang, Guanghui Wang, Yanwei Cui +4Agentic EvaluationsEvaluation Metrics

    1AWS Generative AI Innovation Center · 2HSBC Holdings Plc., HSBC Technology Center, China

  22. SLVMBench: Skill Learning from Video Memory

    Jul 13, 2026Yudong Yang, Guangzhi Sun, Yixuan Li +1Streaming Video UnderstandingSkills

    Tsinghua University · University of Cambridge

  23. Dynamic Agent Skills: A Lifecycle Survey and Taxonomy of Evolving Skill Libraries

    Jul 11, 2026Yubo LiReusable Agent SkillsSkills

    Carnegie Mellon University

  24. Inside the Skill Market: From Software Engineering Activities to Reusable Agent Skills

    Jul 10, 2026Jialun Cao, Xinru Yan, Songqiang Chen +3Software EngineeringAgent Skill Retrieval

    The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology · University of Chinese Academy of Sciences · Institute of Software, Chinese Academy of Sciences +1

  25. SkillPlug: Unsupervised Skill Mining for Few-Shot Adaptation in Robotic Manipulation

    Jul 9, 2026Zi-han Ding, Ziwei WangHuman-To-Robot TransferRobotic Manipulation

    School of Electrical and Electronic Engineering, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore

  26. SkillCenter: A Large-Scale Source-Grounded Skill Library for Autonomous AI Agents

    Jul 8, 2026Tianming Sha, Yue Zhao, Lichao Sun +1Reusable Agent SkillsSkills

    1Stony Brook University · University of Southern California · 3Lehigh University +1

  27. Do LLM-Generated Skills Make Better AI Data Scientists? A Component Ablation Across Data-Science Workflows

    Jul 8, 2026Wei-Jung HuangData Science AgentsSkills

    Independent Researcher United States

  28. The Blind Curator: How a Biased Judge Silently Disables Skill Retirement in Self-Evolving Agents

    Jul 8, 2026Xing Zhang, Yanwei Cui, Guanghui Wang +4Self-Evolving AgentsJudges

    1AWS Generative AI Innovation Center · 2HSBC Holdings Plc., HSBC Technology Center, China

  29. Diagnosing Semantic Handoff Failures in Agent-Orchestrated Vision-Language-Action Skill Composition

    Jul 7, 2026Ke Rui, Yushen Zuo, Jiawei Wang +4Human-To-Robot TransferRobot State

    SimpleAI

  30. TypeGo: An OS Runtime for Embodied Agents

    Jul 6, 2026Guojun Chen, Alex Schott, Lin ZhongEmbodied AgentsClassical Planning

    Yale University

  31. SkillFuzz: Fuzzing Skill Composition for Implicit Intents Discovery in Open Skill Marketplaces

    Jul 2, 2026Jinwei Hu, Yi Dong, Youcheng Sun +1SkillsFuzzing

    School of Computer Science and Informatics, University of Liverpool, Liverpool, United Kingdom · Mohamed bin Zayed University of Artificial Intelligence, Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates

  32. SkillCoach: Self-Evolving Rubrics for Evaluating and Enhancing Agentic Skill-Use

    Jul 2, 2026Jiayin Zhu, Kelong Mao, Yudong Guo +4SkillsRubrics

    1HKUST(GZ), 2JD.COM · ∗Yutao Yue is also affiliated with Institute of Deep Perception Technology, JITRI, Wuxi, China.

  33. AutoMem: Automated Learning of Memory as a Cognitive Skill

    Jul 1, 2026Shengguang Wu, Hao Zhu, Yuhui Zhang +2Skills

    Stanford University

  34. Skills Are Not Islands: Measuring Dependency and Risk in Agent Skill Supply Chains

    Jul 1, 2026Changguo Jia, Tianqi Zhao, Runzhi He +1SkillsDependency Graph

    Peking University, Beijing, China · Zhongguancun Laboratory, Beijing, China

  35. Learning Generalizable Skill Policy with Data-Efficient Unsupervised RL

    Jul 1, 2026Jongchan Park, Seungjun Oh, Seungho Baek +1Unsupervised Skill DiscoveryGoal-Conditioned Value Function

    Department of Artificial Intelligence, Sungkyunkwan University, Suwon, Republic of Korea · Department of Computer Science and Engineering, Sungkyunkwan University, Suwon, Republic of Korea

  36. Generative Skill Composition for LLM Agents

    Jun 30, 2026Xinyu Zhao, Zhen Tan, Vaishnav Tadiparthi +5SkillsLarge Language Model Agents

    University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill · Arizona State University · Honda Research Institute USA

  37. Overview of the TalentCLEF 2026: Skill and Job Title Intelligence for Human Capital Management

    Jun 30, 2026Luis Gasco, Hermenegildo Fabregat, Laura García-Sardiña +8JobsSkills

    Avature Machine Learning, Spain · TechWolf, Belgium · NLP & IR Group at UNED, Madrid, Spain

  38. The Decomposition Is the Fingerprint: Per-Component Identity for Agent Skills

    Jun 30, 2026Hongliang Liu, Yuhao Wu, Tung-Ling LiSkillsFingerprint

    Palo Alto Networks

  39. Why Solve It Twice? Hierarchical Accumulation of Skills for Transfer-Efficient ML Engineering

    Jun 29, 2026Yongbin Kim, Yashar Talebirad, Osmar R. ZaianeMle-Bench LiteSkills

    Department of Computing Science, University of Alberta, Edmonton, Canada · Alberta Machine Intelligence Institute (Amii), Edmonton, Canada

  40. Parametric Skills

    Jun 29, 2026Xuan Zhao, Haonan He, Qingyu Yang +5Unsupervised Skill DiscoverySkills

    1Shanghai Artificial Intelligence Laboratory · University of Science and Technology of China · 3KTH Royal Institute of Technology +2

  41. AlgoSkill: Learning to Design Algorithms by Scheduling Human-Like Skills

    Jun 29, 2026Xinyuan Song, Zekun Cai, Liang ZhaoAutomated Heuristic DesignLlm-Driven Code Synthesis

    Emory University, Atlanta, GA, USA · The University of Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan · LocationMind, Tokyo, Japan

  42. RESOURCE2SKILL: Distilling Executable Agent Skills from Human-Created Multimodal Resources

    Jun 28, 2026Yijia Fan, Zonglin Di, Zimo Wen +8Reusable Agent SkillsMultimodal Agents

    Microsoft Research · University of California, Santa Cruz · Shanghai Jiao Tong University

  43. Translation as a Bridging Action: Transferring Manipulation Skills from Humans to Robots

    Jun 26, 2026Sijin Chen, Kaixuan Jiang, Haixin Shi +6Human-To-Robot TransferBimanual Manipulation

    1HKU-MMLab · 2ByteDance Seed

  44. OPID: On-Policy Skill Distillation for Agentic Reinforcement Learning

    Jun 25, 2026Shuo Yang, Jinyang Wu, Zhengxi Lu +8Agentic Reinforcement LearningUnsupervised Skill Discovery

    1Tsinghua University · 2Zhejiang University · 3The Chinese University of Hong Kong +2

  45. SKILL-DISCO: Distilling and Compiling Agent Traces into Reusable Procedural Skills

    Jun 25, 2026Zhongxin Guo, Danrui Qi, Hanwen Gu +2SkillsProcedural

    Microsoft Research · Beijing Foreign Studies University

  46. EvoClawBench: Can Agents Learn Reusable Skills from Their Own Runs?

    Jun 23, 2026Zhiyuan Peng, Xin Yin, Chenhao Ying +5Agentic BenchmarksSkills

    1Shanghai Jiao Tong University · 2Zhejiang University · 3Hithink Research

  47. Detecting Malicious Agent Skills in the Wild using Attention

    Jun 22, 2026Bacem Etteib, Daniele Lunghi, Tégawendé F. BissyandéMalicious AgentsSkills

    University of Luxembourg

  48. Causal Reward World Models: Zero-shot Reward Design for Automated Skill Generation

    Jun 22, 2026Yang Yang, Yuchuang Tong, Zhengtao Zhang +6Skills

    Institute of Automation, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100049, China · Intelligent Manufacturing Institute, HFUT, Hefei 230051, China · School of Electrical Engineering and Automation, Anhui University, Hefei 230061, China +1

  49. ARP: Enhancing Quantized Skill Abstractions via Visual Alignment and Iterative Refinement for Robotic Manipulation

    Jun 21, 2026Yuntian Wang, Zesheng Jia, Yuhui Duan +5Robotic ManipulationAction Generation

    School of Future Science and Engineering, Soochow University · Key Laboratory of General Artificial Intelligence and Large Models in Provincial Universities, Soochow University · College of Mechanical and Electronic Engineering, China Jiliang University +2

  50. Hypothesis-Driven Skill Optimization for LLM Agents

    Jun 21, 2026Fangxin Shang, Yehui YangUnsupervised Skill DiscoverySkills

    AI Lab, Qifu Technology, Beijing, China

  51. Skills for the future software profession: beyond agentic AI!

    Jun 20, 2026Abhik Roychoudhury, Sungmin Kang, Baishakhi RaySoftware EngineeringCoding Agents

    National University of Singapore, Singapore · Columbia University, USA

  52. Task-Differentiated Atomic Skill Expansion and Routing for Continual Learning Across Highly Heterogeneous Tasks

    Jun 19, 2026Jiacheng Wang, Xinjia He, Qi Ding +5Replay-Based Continual LearningContinual Learning

    East China Normal University · Fudan University · Ocean University of China

  53. Automating SKILL.md Generation for Computer-Using Agents via Interaction Trajectory Mining

    Jun 18, 2026Yuexing Hao, Xiaomin LiSkillsComputer-Use Agents

    Massachusetts Institute of Technology · Harvard University

  54. Skill-MAS: Evolving Meta-Skill for Automatic Multi-Agent Systems

    Jun 17, 2026Hehai Lin, Qi Yang, Chengwei QinModel-Based Multi-Agent SystemsSkills

    The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology (Guangzhou) · Ant Group

  55. VISUALSKILL: Multimodal Skills for Computer-Use Agents

    Jun 16, 2026Ziyan Jiang, Li An, Yujian Liu +5Reusable Agent SkillsMultimodal Agents

    1UC Santa Barbara · 2MIT CSAIL · 3MIT-IBM Watson AI Lab

  56. RubricsTree: Scalable and Evolving Open-Ended Evaluation of Personal Health Agents across Health Memory and Medical Skills

    Jun 16, 2026Weizhi Zhang, Zechen Li, Hamid Palangi +16Task-Specific RubricsSkills

    1Google Research, 2University of Illinois Chicago, *Work done during an internship at Google, †Corresponding Author

  57. A Framework for Evaluating Agentic Skills at Scale

    Jun 16, 2026Maksim Shaposhnikov, Nicolas Fortuin, Simon Stipcich +3Large Language Model AgentsSkills

    Tessl London, United Kingdom

  58. SkillMoV: Mixture-of-View Routing with Prototype-Conditioned Gating for Unified Multi-View Proficiency Estimation

    Jun 16, 2026Edoardo Bianchi, Antonio LiottaMulti-ViewFine-Grained Video Understanding

    Free University of Bozen-Bolzano, Faculty of Engineering, Via Bruno Buozzi 1, Bozen-Bolzano, 39100, Italy

  59. ATOM-Bench: A Real-World Benchmark for Atomic Skills and Compositional Generalization in Manipulation Policies

    Jun 15, 2026Zenan Wu, Bingqing Wei, Lu Liu +8Robotic Manipulation PoliciesCompositional Generalization

    1Beijing Academy of Artificial Intelligence · 2Peking University

  60. OpenClaw-Skill: Collective Skill Tree Search for Agentic Large Language Models

    Jun 15, 2026Tianyi Lin, Chuanyu Sun, Jingyi Zhang +6SkillsOpenclaw

    The Hong Kong Polytechnic University · Nanyang Technological University · Tsinghua University +2