arXiv AI

Knowledge Activation: AI Skills as the Institutional Knowledge Primitive for Agentic Software Development

arXiv:2603. 14805v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Enterprise software organizations accumulate critical institutional knowledge - architectural decisions, deployment procedures, compliance policies, incident playbooks - yet this knowledge remains trapped in formats designed for human interpretation.

arXiv AI
Aug 28

Knowledge Cards: Structured Knowledge for AI Systems

The paper introduces Knowledge Cards, a new structured artefact designed to capture validated knowledge about specific concepts that AI systems use to make decisions. Unlike existing model, data, and system cards, Knowledge Cards focus on the layer between inputs and outputs, documenting entities, relationships, reasoning patterns, conditions for validity, and provenance, all grounded in a formal domain ontology and signed off by a domain expert. Prototype cards have been created in the energy and pharmaceutical domains, and the schema is released as a public draft for community engagement.

By Liliana Ferreira
arXiv AI
Aug 24

SDAD: Spec-Driven Agentic Development for the AI-Native SDLC

The paper introduces Spec-Driven Agentic Development (SDAD), a framework that leverages large language models to ingest extensive functional requirement documents and repository context in a single workflow, turning specification quality into the engine for autonomous software delivery. SDAD blends disciplined upfront formalisation with rapid implementation, encompassing intent capture, machine‑readable specifications, agentic synthesis, and multi‑agent verification with human sign‑off. It positions AI‑code as a fourth production paradigm, compares it to traditional Waterfall and Agile approaches, and extends the model to team role evolution, quantitative governance metrics, and a staged migration blueprint for practical adoption.

By Vu Hung Nguyen, Thanh Nguyen
arXiv AI
6d ago

What Will Remain Human in Software Architecture? A Focus Group Report

The report examines how software architects view the growing use of AI development agents in their field. A focus group of 22 industry and academic participants discussed current practices, trust, validation, governance, and educational implications, concluding that decision‑making, accountability, and guardrail authoring remain human responsibilities. They introduced the concept of harness engineering—building systems that govern AI‑assisted creation—and identified criticality and cognitive debt as key factors for calibrating human oversight.

By Uwe van Heesch, Olaf Zimmermann, Christian Kohls
arXiv AI
Sep 3

Repo-To-Skill: Distilling GitHub Repositories Into AI4AI Skills

The paper introduces Repo-To-Skill, a method for converting GitHub repositories into reusable AI skills. By distilling operational knowledge from over 1,000 machine‑learning repositories, the authors build the AREX‑Skill Library with more than 5,000 verified skills across 20 areas. Integrating these skills into a research agent—DisCo—yields significant performance boosts on multiple benchmarks, demonstrating the value of reusable, task‑agnostic knowledge.

By Jianlyu Chen, Yuyang Hu, Hongjin Qian, Jiawei Liu, Wenqing Wei, Xiaolong Chen, Defu Lian, Zhicheng Dou, Chaozhuo Li, Qiwei Ye, Zheng Liu
arXiv AI
Aug 3

Unanticipated Effects of Generative AI on Expertise Pathways and Performance Perception in System Administration

arXiv:2607. 28650v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: While industry discourse often emphasizes immediate productivity gains and frames GenAI primarily as a tool for automation, the integration of GenAI into system administration may involve deeper shifts in professional practice that are not yet fully understood.

By Rana Abou Khamis, Hala Assal, Ashraf Matrawy
Hugging Face Trending Papers
Sep 2

Repo-To-Skill: Distilling GitHub Repositories Into AI4AI Skills

Repo-To-Skill: Distilling GitHub Repositories Into AI4AI Skills introduces DisCo, a research agent that extracts and verifies operational knowledge from GitHub repositories to create reusable AI skills. The agent produces both task‑agnostic skills—compiled into the AREX‑Skill Library of over 5,000 verified skills from 1,000 repositories—and task‑oriented skills tailored to specific research tasks. When equipped with these skills, the agent achieves significant performance gains across multiple benchmarks, outperforming a skill‑free version by 134.3% on MLE‑bench, 34.4% on PaperBench, 9.2% on FrontierCS, and 14.0% on PassNet.