arXiv AI
Jul 7
Builder, Defender, Breaker: The Case Against Removing the Human from the AI-Driven Security Lifecycle
arXiv:2607. 03215v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Artificial intelligence has spread across the whole of the security lifecycle.
Competitive and Complementary Tools
arXiv:2607. 18460v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Humans have always externalized thought onto tools, from the tally and the abacus to the map and, now, large language models.
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arXiv Machine Learning
Aug 4
CurveShift: Is Agent Progress Scalar? Separating Level from Shape
arXiv:2608. 00355v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Progress in large language models is often summarized using a single scalar measure, such as a time horizon, a latent ability estimate, or an aggregate benchmark score.
arXiv AI
Jun 4
Parthenon Law: A Self-Evolving Legal-Agent Framework
arXiv:2606. 04602v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: As agents grow more capable, legal-domain LLM agents promise to turn document-heavy matters into reviewable work products -- yet reliable deployment faces three obstacles: no large-scale evidence on how today's strongest model-and-harness combinations behave on end-to-end legal matters; no agent architecture adapted to the legal vertical, only general-purpose harnesses; and, in a setting that keeps shifting with new facts, authorities, and deadlines, no mechanism for systems to learn from their own outcomes.
arXiv AI
Jun 4
The Digital Apprentice: A Framework for Human-Directed Agentic AI Development
arXiv:2606. 04321v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Agentic AI deployments face a recurring design tension: heavy human oversight limits scale, while broad autonomy outruns accountability.
arXiv AI
Jun 3
Agent Skills for Large Language Models: Architecture, Acquisition, Security, and the Path Forward
arXiv:2602. 12430v4 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: The transition from monolithic language models to modular, skill-equipped agents marks a defining shift in how large language models (LLMs) are deployed in practice.
arXiv AI
Jun 2
SkillSmith: Co-Evolving Skills and Tools for Self-Improving Agent Systems
arXiv:2606. 01314v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Recent self-evolving agents have shown that skills can be discovered, refined, and accumulated through execution.
arXiv AI
Jun 16
FORTIS: Benchmarking Over-Privilege in Agent Skills
arXiv:2605. 09163v3 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Large language model agents increasingly operate through an intermediate skill layer that mediates between user intent and concrete task execution.
arXiv AI
Jul 29
Authoring Agent Skills: A Software-Engineering Approach
arXiv:2607. 25032v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Agent Skills are an emerging way to extend large language model agents with reusable procedural knowledge that the agent loads on demand.
arXiv AI
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IACDM: Interactive Adversarial Convergence Development Methodology -- A Structured Framework for AI-Assisted Software Development
arXiv:2604. 16399v3 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Adoption of AI-assisted development in 2025 exposed a tool-agnostic failure pattern: experienced developers using frontier models were measurably slower while believing they were faster, and 10.
arXiv AI
Aug 12
CoEvoSkills: Self-Evolving Agent Skills via Co-Evolutionary Verification
arXiv:2604. 01687v3 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Anthropic proposes the concept of skills for LLM agents to tackle multi-step professional tasks that simple tool invocations cannot address.
arXiv AI
Jul 8
Beyond the Leaderboard: A Synthesis of Tool-Use, Planning, and Reasoning Failures in Large Language Model Agents
arXiv:2607. 05775v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Large language model (LLM) agents are increasingly evaluated on their ability to use tools, plan multi-step tasks, coordinate with other agents, and operate over extended horizons.
arXiv AI
Jun 3
Solipsistic Superintelligence is Unlikely to be Cooperative
arXiv:2606. 03237v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: AI's central challenge is shifting from capability to coexistence.