Demystifying Agent Skills: Why They Work-Until They Don't
arXiv:2608. 14036v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Skills have emerged as a practical and effective approach for enhancing LLM agents at inference time through structured packages of knowledge.
arXiv:2605. 16283v3 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Large-scale AI deployment data and controlled learning experiments characterize different consequences of the same technology.
arXiv:2608. 14036v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Skills have emerged as a practical and effective approach for enhancing LLM agents at inference time through structured packages of knowledge.
arXiv:2606. 09833v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: AI agents are reshaping the workspace, leading to drastic change of how humans work.
arXiv:2604. 24594v3 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: As large language models (LLMs) evolve into agentic problem solvers, they increasingly rely on external, reusable skills to handle tasks beyond their native parametric capabilities.
arXiv:2606. 26118v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: We work towards measuring both AI adoption and the capability of AI to perform discrete labor tasks across various occupations.
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.
arXiv:2412. 19754v4 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Artificial Intelligence (AI) is transforming the nature of work, yet there is limited empirical evidence on how it affects demand for human skills.
arXiv:2604. 01363v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: We propose that AI automation is a continuum between: (i) crashing waves where AI capabilities surge abruptly over small sets of tasks, and (ii) rising tides where the increase in AI capabilities is more continuous and broad-based.
arXiv:2606. 13734v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Recent evidence reported by Tully, Longoni, and Appel (2025) suggests that lower artificial intelligence (AI) literacy predicts greater receptivity toward AI.
arXiv:2608. 16544v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Agents increasingly rely on reusable skills to encode task knowledge, tool-use procedures, and validation rules.
arXiv:2606. 07489v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Frontier AI systems are bridging the gap between intelligence and utility by shifting from conversational assistants to autonomous agents that execute tasks end to end.
arXiv:2607. 07504v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Product data scientists often ask LLM-based agents to help with recurring execution tasks such as cleaning data, writing SQL, choosing statistical tests, and formatting results.
arXiv:2608. 07779v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Artificial intelligence is changing the task composition of computing work faster than curricula and training typically adapt.