arXiv:2606. 26669v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Agents often repeatedly solve similar task instances from scratch, leading to unnecessary reasoning cost and long execution traces.
By Zhongxin Guo, Danrui Qi, Hanwen Gu, Peng Cheng, Yongqiang Xiong
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.
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:2609.33772v2 Announce Type: replace
Abstract: Executable environments are critical for post-training agents on tasks that require tool use and multi-step interaction, but constructing executabl...
By Weiyi Xu, Xiaowen Yang, Wen Da, Hang Xu, Canwei Li, Hongjie You, Pusen Dong, Yucheng Zeng, Zhaokai Luo, Mu Chuan
arXiv:2608. 09253v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: LLM agents are increasingly equipped with skills to perform complex tasks through multi-step reasoning and tool use.
By You Lu, Xinyu Huang, Bihuan Chen, Xin Peng
arXiv:2609.27717v1 Announce Type: new
Abstract: Human-written agent skills encode rich workflows for real-world problem solving, but are typically used as external inference-time instructions rather...
By Zhilong Ge, Yuting Shao, Yutao Yang, Yuxuan Cai, Jie Zhou, Kai Chen, Bo Zhang, Qin Chen, Liang He
arXiv:2606. 08049v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: AI agents increasingly turn past experience into reusable artifacts such as code, workflows, and procedural memories.
By Amine El Hattami, Nicolas Chapados, Christopher Pal
arXiv:2606. 01139v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Agent skills are procedural artifacts that enable LLM agents to execute workflows, verify constraints, and recover from failures.
By Yuxuan Liu, Zhaochen Su, Lingyun Xie, Yuhao Zhang, Qing Zong, Jiahe Guo, Zhongwei Xie, Yiyan Ji, Yauwai Yim, Hongyu Luo, Xiyu Ren, Ruan Chenyu, Haoran Li, Yangqiu Song
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:2607. 11388v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Recent advances in large language models (LLMs) and vision-language models (VLMs) have enabled increasingly capable digital agents for computer use.
By Wenyi Wu, Sibo Zhu, Kun Zhou, Aayush Salvi, Zixuan Song, Biwei Huang
arXiv:2605. 16986v2 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Additional test-time compute can give LLM agents access to more past experience, yet expanding the context or adding rollouts does not necessarily yield greater agent capability.
By Jingxing Wang, Chenyu Zhou, Zhihui Fu, Jun Wang, Weiwen Liu, Weinan Zhang, Jianghao Lin
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