arXiv AI

HEXIS: Compiling Skills into Extended Finite State Machines

HEXIS is a system that compiles agent skills into extended finite state machines, separating skill knowledge from control flow. It uses local instructions within states to guide reasoning and generation, while explicit transition conditions manage execution progress. The incremental compiler maps skill clauses and tool interfaces to state operations, aligns development traces to identify missing operations, and updates are validated through static checks and replay of traces, resulting in improved success rates and reduced execution tokens across benchmarks.

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Jun 25

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

Agents often repeatedly solve similar task instances from scratch, leading to unnecessary reasoning cost and long execution traces. Prior work has explored workflow reuse and executable skill induction, but it remains unclear which task scenarios admit procedural skills and how the shared procedural structure should be represented across successful traces.

arXiv AI
Aug 28

SKILL.state: Scalable Long-Horizon Agent Skills

SKILL.state is a new runtime architecture for large language model agents that replaces the traditional append‑only conversational history with an explicit, mutable execution state. At each step the model receives only the immutable skill specification, the current structured state, and the latest observation, discarding intermediate reasoning after validating state updates. Experiments across datasets, models, and environments show that SKILL.state improves task accuracy and significantly reduces cumulative token consumption, proving that explicit execution state is a scalable, architecture‑agnostic abstraction for long‑horizon agent skills.

By Sanket Badhe, Priyanka Tiwari, Jonghyun Chung
arXiv AI
Jun 24

LemonHarness Technical Report

arXiv:2606. 24311v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: As large language model (LLM) agents are applied to longer tasks, they increasingly modify workspace state across multiple rounds of iteration.

By Kailong Ren, Fubo Sun, Jiachen Liu, Liu Yang, Zimo Yin, Jiaying Li, Congli Yin, Ming He, Yu Huo, Jiawei Liu, Zeping Chen, Yubin Huangfu, Ronghua Li, Yixuan Wu, Xing Su, Yanzhi Xu, Likang Wu, Hongke Zhao, Lei Zhang, Xiaohui Geng, Jianping Fan
arXiv AI
Sep 3

SkillGLoW: Procedural-Family Skill Consolidation for Self-Improving Agents on Long-Horizon Task Streams

SkillGLoW introduces a new way for large language model agents to self‑improve by consolidating procedural skills shared across related tasks. Instead of storing all skills in a single global document or a flat per‑task pool, SkillGLoW aggregates local skills into procedural families, compresses them into de‑instantiated global priors, and regenerates instance‑specific details on demand. Experiments on four diverse benchmarks show that these priors improve performance by an average of 17.2 points over a no‑skill baseline, are more compact than per‑task pools, and enable better transfer to unseen tasks.

By Ao Yan, Xin Zhang, Jiawei Du, Joey Tianyi Zhou