arXiv:2607. 18785v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: As large language model agents gain access to increasingly large skill libraries, retrieving the right skill becomes critical to reliable capability selection and execution.
By Jinying Xiao, Bin Ji, Shasha Li, Xiaodong Liu, Ma Jun, Jiacheng Jie, Chao Wang, Nyima Tashi, Jie Yu
arXiv:2606. 03056v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: As LLM agents adopt large skill libraries, selecting the right subset becomes a structural problem rather than a similarity-matching one: skills depend on, conflict with, specialize, or duplicate one another, a structure invisible to both full enumeration and embedding similarity.
By Tong Bai, Zhenglin Wan, Pengfei Zhou, Xingrui Yu, Wangbo Zhao, Yang You, Ivor W. Tsang
Large language model agents increasingly rely on reusable skills to extend their capabilities beyond parametric knowl- edge. However, retrieving the appropriate skill from a large- scale library remains challenging because realistic user re- quests are often concise and underspecified, stating only the task goal while leaving the required capabilities and execu- tion steps implicit.
arXiv:2607. 18785v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: As large language model agents gain access to increasingly large skill libraries, retrieving the right skill becomes critical to reliable capability selection and execution.
By Jinying Xiao, Bin Li, Xiaopeng Li, Jianling Li, Jiacheng Jie, Xiaodong Liu, Ma Jun, Chao Wang, Nyima Tashi, Jie Yu
arXiv:2608. 08640v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Large language model agents increasingly rely on reusable skills to extend their capabilities beyond parametric knowl- edge.
By Donghong Jiang, Endian Lin, Luoping Cui, Hanqing Liu, Mingjie Liu, Fan Yang, Hong Wang, Zhao Yang, Chuang Zhu
arXiv:2603. 22455v5 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Reusable skills let LLM agents package task-specific procedures, tool affordances, and execution guidance into modular building blocks.
By YanZhao Zheng, ZhenTao Zhang, Chao Ma, YuanQiang Yu, JiHuai Zhu, Yong Wu, Tianze Xu, Baohua Dong, Hangcheng Zhu, Ruohui Huang, Gang Yu
arXiv:2604. 24594v3 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: As large language models (LLMs) evolve into agentic problem solvers, they increasingly rely on external, reusable skills to handle tasks beyond their native parametric capabilities.
By Weihang Su, Jianming Long, Qingyao Ai, Qiaozhi He, Yichen Tang, Changyue Wang, Yiteng Tu, Yingbo Wang, Yiqun Liu
arXiv:2608. 09168v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Agent skills are increasingly used to equip large language model (LLM) agents with reusable procedural knowledge.
By Liang He, Jingbo Wen, Hongyu Gu, Hao Li, Haoyu Wang, Yixiong Chen, Kangning Cui, Xilu Wang
Agent skills are increasingly used to equip large language model (LLM) agents with reusable procedural knowledge. Although recent work has substantially improved skill retrieval due to the increasing skill libraries, retrieving a plausible skill bundle does not guarantee that executing it is worthwhile.
arXiv:2608. 06196v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Agents backed by large skill libraries must decide which skills to load and in what order.
By Indivara Kolluru, Nathan Sportsman
Field-Aware Agent Skill Retrieval explores how keeping the distinct fields of skill documents—such as name, description, and body—separate can improve retrieval performance. By computing sparse and dense similarities for each field independently and combining them with either uniform weights or a small MLP, the authors achieve higher Recall@10 scores on two benchmarks, SkillRet and SRA-Bench. The study shows that the advantage of field-aware representation grows as the skill bank expands, indicating its importance for large-scale lifelong learning agents.
By Paimon Goulart, Liang Wu, Kelly Wan, Evangelos E. Papalexakis, Liangjie Hong
arXiv:2606. 00822v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Skill-based LLM agents increasingly rely on long procedural documents, but full-document prompting wastes tokens and dilutes information critical to execution.
By Zicai Cui, Zihan Guo, Weiwen Liu, Weinan Zhang