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. SkillWiki: A Living Knowledge Infrastructure for Agent Skills

    Jun 15, 2026Dingcheng Huang, Yuda Ding, Bingshuo Liu +8Reusable Agent SkillsSkills

  2. Not All Skills Help: Measuring and Repairing Agent Knowledge

    Jun 13, 2026Yixuan Wang, Yiyang Zhou, Yiming Liang +4SkillsData-Curation

  3. Benign in Isolation, Harmful in Composition: Security Risks in Agent Skill Ecosystems

    Jun 13, 2026Yi Xie, Jiawei Du, Yu Cheng +2Agent Skill RetrievalSecurity

  4. Are Online Skill and Memory Modules Always Worth Their Tokens? A Budget-Constrained Study of Web Agents

    Jun 12, 2026Sina Hajimiri, Masih Aminbeidokhti, Jose Dolz +4Token Budget AllocationSkills

  5. SkillAudit: Ground-Truth-Free Skill Evolution via Paired Trajectory Auditing

    Jun 12, 2026Haowen Gao, Haoran Chen, Can Wang +5Skill EvolutionSkills

  6. Notes2Skills: From Lab Notebooks to Certainty-Aware Scientific Agent Skills

    Jun 10, 2026Shi Liu, Jiayao Chen, Chengwei Qin +3Scientific AgentsScientific Workflows

  7. SkillJuror: Measuring How Agent Skill Organization Changes Runtime Behavior

    Jun 10, 2026Zhiyu Chen, Zihan Guo, Bo Huang +4Agent Skill RetrievalSkills

  8. Skill Coverage: A Test Adequacy Metric for Agent Skills

    Jun 9, 2026Boyin Tan, Xiaowei Huang, Youcheng SunReusable Agent SkillsAgent Skill Retrieval

  9. SkillAxe: Sharpening LLM-Authored Agent Skills Through Evaluation-Guided Self-Refinement

    Jun 9, 2026Srishti Gautam, Arjun Radhakrishna, Sumit GulwaniSkillsInstruction

  10. Anything2Skill: Compiling External Knowledge into Reusable Skills for Agents

    Jun 8, 2026Qianjun Pan, Yutao Yang, Junsong Li +5Reusable Agent SkillsSkills

  11. Co-Evolving Skill Generation and Policy Optimization

    Jun 7, 2026Zhiwei Zhang, Yudi Lin, Nikki Lijing Kuang +4Skills

  12. SkillHone: A Harness for Continual Agent Skill Evolution Through Persistent Decision History

    Jun 7, 2026Zhiwei Li, Yong HuSkillsEvolutionary Optimization Methods

  13. Bayesian-Agent: Posterior-Guided Skill Evolution for LLM Agent Harnesses

    Jun 6, 2026Xiaojun Wu, Cehao Yang, Honghao Liu +7Large Language Model AgentsSkill Evolution

  14. CLASP: Language-Driven Robot Skill Selection and Composition using Task-Parameterized Learning

    Jun 6, 2026Markus Knauer, Valentin Gieraths, Tai Mai +4Robot SystemsSkills

  15. Continual Quadruped Robots Coordination via Semantic Skill Discovery

    Jun 6, 2026Daoqing Wang, Yuchen Xiao, Weixuan Huang +5Multi-Robot SystemsLegged Robots

  16. Efficient Skill Grounding via Code Refactoring with Small Language Models

    Jun 6, 2026Sera Choi, Wonje Choi, Saehun Chun +4Embodied AgentsHuman-To-Robot Transfer

  17. POISE: Position-Aware Undetectable Skill Injection on LLM Agents

    Jun 6, 2026Haochang Hao, Dehai Min, Zhifang Zhang +4PoisoningMalicious Agents

  18. Socratic-SWE: Self-Evolving Coding Agents via Trace-Derived Agent Skills

    Jun 5, 2026Chuan Xiao, Zhengbo Jiao, Shaobo Wang +5Self-Evolving AgentsCoding Agents

  19. Workflow-to-Skill: Skill Creation via Routing-Workflow-Semantics-Attachments Decomposition

    Jun 5, 2026Yuyang Zhang, Xinyuan Han, Xudong Jiang +1SkillsAgentic Workflow Design

  20. Unsupervised Skill Discovery for Agentic Data Analysis

    Jun 4, 2026Zhisong Qiu, Kangqi Song, Shengwei Tang +4Data Science AgentsUnsupervised Skill Discovery

  21. LatentSkill: From In-Context Textual Skills to In-Weight Latent Skills for LLM Agents

    Jun 4, 2026Aofan Yu, Chenyu Zhou, Tianyi Xu +8SkillsLarge Language Model Agents

  22. SkillComposer: Learning to Evolve Agent Skills for Specification and Generalization

    Jun 4, 2026Qi Zhang, Zhaopeng Feng, Xiaonan Shi +8SkillsAgentic Inference

  23. Learning While Acting: A Skill-Enhanced Test-Time Co-Evolution Framework for Online Lifelong Learning Agents

    Jun 3, 2026Bo Mao, Jie Zhou, Yutao Yang +5Offline Reinforcement LearningSkills

  24. Online Skill Learning for Web Agents via State-Grounded Dynamic Retrieval

    Jun 3, 2026Jiaxi Li, Ke Deng, Yun Wang +5Web AgentsSkills

  25. SkillPyramid: A Hierarchical Skill Consolidation Framework for Self-Evolving Agents

    Jun 2, 2026Yuan Xiong, Ziqi Miao, Qian Chen +5Unsupervised Skill DiscoverySelf-Evolving Agents

  26. SkillHarness: Harnessing Safe Skills for Computer-Use Agents

    Jun 2, 2026Yurun Chen, Biao Yi, Keting Yin +1SkillsComputer-Use Agents

  27. FederatedSkill: Federated Learning for Agentic Skill Evolution

    Jun 2, 2026Jingbo Yang, Guanyu Yao, Yang Zhang +3Skill EvolutionSelf-Evolving Agents

  28. SkillDAG: Self-Evolving Typed Skill Graphs for LLM Skill Selection at Scale

    Jun 2, 2026Tong Bai, Zhenglin Wan, Pengfei Zhou +3Unsupervised Skill DiscoverySkills

  29. Tracking the Behavioral Trajectories of Adapting Agents

    Jun 1, 2026Jonah Leshin, Manish Shah, Ian TimmisAgentic EvaluationsSkills

  30. MMG2Skill: Can Agents Distill In-the-Wild Guides into Self-Evolving Skills?

    Jun 1, 2026Xinyu Che, Junqi Xiong, Yunfei Ge +10Skill EvolutionSkills

  31. ReSkill: Reconciling Skill Creation with Policy Optimization in Agentic RL

    Jun 1, 2026Zelin He, Haotian Lin, Boran Han +6Agentic Reinforcement LearningSkills

  32. Agent Skills Should Go Beyond Text: The Case for Visual Skills

    May 31, 2026Binxiao Xu, Ruichuan An, Bocheng Zou +1Multimodal AgentsReusable Agent Skills

  33. SkillSmith: Co-Evolving Skills and Tools for Self-Improving Agent Systems

    May 31, 2026Yangbo Wei, Zhen Huang, Shaoqiang Lu +4Skill EvolutionSelf-Evolving Agents

  34. SkillAdaptor: Self-Adapting Skills for LLM Agents from Trajectories

    May 31, 2026Zhuoyun Yu, Xin Xie, Wuguannan Yao +4SkillsLarge Language Model Agents

  35. "Skill Issues'': Data-Centric Optimization of Lakehouse Agents

    May 31, 2026Nicole Rose Schneider, Davide Ghilardi, Giacomo Piccinini +1Data Science AgentsAgentic Optimization

  36. SkillRevise: Improving LLM-Authored Agent Skills via Trace-Conditioned Skill Revision

    May 31, 2026Yuxuan Liu, Zhaochen Su, Lingyun Xie +11Reusable Agent SkillsSkills

  37. Benchmarking Security Risk Detection and Verification in Open Agentic Skill Ecosystems

    May 30, 2026Ismail Hossain, Sai Puppala, Zhuoran Lu +2Malicious AgentsReusable Agent Skills

  38. SkillPager: Query-Adaptive Intra-Skill Navigation via Semantic Node Retrieval

    May 30, 2026Zicai Cui, Zihan Guo, Weiwen Liu +1SkillsLarge Language Model Agents

  39. Skill or Skip? Learning Selective Skill Invocation in Agentic Tasks via Dual-Granularity Preference Learning

    May 30, 2026Chishui Chen, Jiaye Lin, Te Sun +6SkillsAgentic Reinforcement Learning

  40. When Safe Skills Collide: Measuring Compositional Risk in Agent Skill Ecosystems

    May 30, 2026Su Wang, Pin Qian, Yihang Chen +6SkillsExploitation

  41. Skill Availability and Presentation Granularity in Large-Language-Model Agents: A Controlled SkillsBench Study

    May 29, 2026Xiaonan Xu, Wenjing WuSkillsLarge Language Model Agents

  42. XLGoBench: Detecting cross-lingual skill gaps with algorithmic tasks

    May 29, 2026Purvam Jain, Preethi Jyothi, Vihari Piratla +1Cross-Lingual ConsistencyLarge Language Model Benchmarks

  43. Harnessing Agent Skills: Architectural Patterns and a Reference Architecture for Skill-Mediated LLM Agents

    May 29, 2026Boming Xia, Liming Zhu, Zhenchang Xing +3Agent Skill RetrievalSkills

  44. Skill is Not One-Size-Fits-All: Model-Aware Skill Alignment for LLM Agents

    May 29, 2026Jianxiang Yu, Jiapeng Zhu, Bochen Lin +3Self-Evolving Skill LibrariesSkills

  45. SkillsInjector: Dynamic Skill Context Construction for LLM Agents

    May 28, 2026Yanchao Li, Wanhao Liu, Ben Gao +5SkillsPlanner Agent

  46. SkillBrew: Multi-Objective Curation of Skill Banks for LLM Agents

    May 28, 2026Wentao Hu, Zhendong Chu, Yiming Zhang +6SkillsLarge Language Model Agents

  47. Learning Design Skills as Memory Policies for Agentic Photonic Inverse Design

    May 28, 2026Shengchao Chen, Ting Shu, Sufen RenNanophotonicInverse Design

  48. You Live More Than Once: Towards Hierarchical Skill Meta-Evolving

    May 27, 2026Xujun Li, Kehan Zheng, Mingyuan Zhao +7Self-Evolving Skill LibrariesSkills

  49. KLineage: Recovering the Missing When of Kernel Optimization by Deoptimizing Experts

    May 27, 2026Shuoming Zhang, Qiuchu Yu, Ruiyuan Xu +11Graphics Processing Unit KernelsCode Optimization

  50. Skill-as-Pseudocode: Refactoring Skill Libraries to Pseudocode for LLM Agents

    May 27, 2026Xinze Li, Yuhang Zang, Yixin Cao +1SkillsLarge Language Model Agents

  51. ESC-Skills: Discovering and Self-Evolving Skills for Emotional Support Conversations

    May 27, 2026Jie Zhu, Huaixia Dou, Shuo Jiang +5Emotional Support Conversation TaskSkill Evolution

  52. PEAM: Parametric Embodied Agent Memory through Contrastive Internalization of Experience in Minecraft

    May 26, 2026Yuchen Guo, Junli Gong, Weicheng Wang +3InternalizationSkills

  53. SkillGrad: Optimizing Agent Skills Like Gradient Descent

    May 26, 2026Hanyu Wang, Yifan Lan, Bochuan Cao +2SkillsLarge Language Model Agents