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:2608. 06880v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: General-purpose skills promise reusable procedural knowledge for language agents, yet semantic relevance does not guarantee execution utility: a retrieved skill may encode assumptions that conflict with the current task, execution environment, or other retrieved skills.
By Qinfeng Li, Dalin He, Yuntai Bao, Ying Yang, Ruoxi Chen, Xinyan Yu, Lizhou Liang, Ge Su, Wenqi Zhang, Xuhong Zhang
SkillGym is an automatic pipeline that generates verifiable environments for training skill-use agents. It crawls internet skills, filters for reproducible workflows, and uses a builder‑reviewer process to create difficulty‑controlled tasks with reference solutions and verifiers. The system builds 6.8k environments, collects 19k successful trajectories, and fine‑tunes LLMs from 2B to 122B parameters, improving performance and skill invocation rates.
By Renxi Wang, Mingshan Hee, Fajri Koto, Timothy Baldwin, Haonan Li
arXiv:2606. 09316v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Retrieval-augmented generation (RAG) enables agents to access external knowledge at inference time, but it primarily retrieves fragmented declarative evidence, leaving agents to repeatedly infer task procedures from passages, manuals, examples, logs, or trajectories.
By Qianjun Pan, Yutao Yang, Junsong Li, Jie Zhou, Kai Chen, Xin Li, Qin Chen, Liang He
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
Jev-LiteMAS is a multi‑agent framework that separates decision‑making from generative execution in large‑language‑model workflows. By using a lightweight decision model (Jev) to dynamically select experts and screen artifacts, it closes the planning and review gaps left by pure generative planners and reviewers. Experiments on four benchmarks show that Jev‑LiteMAS cuts generative‑LLM token usage by 12.7–54.6% while keeping accuracy within 1.34 percentage points and reducing latency in most settings.
By Kaixiang Wang, Zhaijiacheng Zhou, Jiong Lou, Jie Li
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:2609.07255v1 Announce Type: new
Abstract: Language-model agents increasingly rely on skills: reusable procedural knowledge for reasoning, tool use, and interaction. Existing work studies how sk...
By Shuo Ren, Xiaomian Kang, Jiajun Zhang
arXiv:2610.14918v1 Announce Type: new
Abstract: Evaluating an agent's ability to strictly satisfy diverse and procedurally complex requirements is essential to determining its practical reliability....
By Zhengxi Li, Junyi Zhou, Qiyuan Zhang, Chuhan Wu, Fuyuan Lyu, Le Tian, Xiao Zhou, Chen Ma, Yufei Wang
arXiv:2608.23417v1 Announce Type: new
Abstract: Agent skills are reusable procedural artifacts that extend language agents with specialized workflows, tool conventions, and domain behaviors at infere...
By Hengjun Wang, Shuyue Wei, Boyi Liu, Jun Yang, Yongxin Tong
SkillEffect is a checked‑lowering runtime that ensures agent tool calls stay within memory limits by verifying each proposed program against an immutable input before execution. It uses audited relation plugins to provide source recognition, bounded intermediate representation construction, and postconditions, while a shared runtime handles selection, bounded VM execution, and atomic capacity leasing. Experiments across six operator families show that bounded access significantly reduces peak memory usage and improves completion rates under fixed memory caps.
By Yinuo Wang, Yiyu Shi
arXiv:2608. 05604v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Large Language Models (LLMs) increasingly act as agents whose procedural knowledge is stored in reusable skill packages and loaded at inference time.
By Xingyu Tan, Xiaoyang Wang, Qing Liu, Xiwei Xu, Xin Yuan, Liming Zhu, Wenjie Zhang