arXiv:2609.08228v1 Announce Type: new
Abstract: Modern LLM agents increasingly rely on reusable skills, yet as skill libraries scale to thousands of entries, effective retrieval becomes a bottleneck....
By Dawei Fu, Cheng Jiang, Sitian Qian, Huainan Wang, Zhongkai Hao
arXiv:2605.05726v2 Announce Type: replace
Abstract: As LLM agents are increasingly deployed with large libraries of reusable skills, selecting the right skill for a user request has become a critical...
By Hongcheol Cho, Ryangkyung Kang, Youngeun Kim
SkillFlow is an open, multi-stage retrieval system that helps AI agents selectively load relevant skills from a large library of community-contributed SKILL.md definitions. The pipeline uses dense retrieval, two rounds of cross-encoder reranking, and LLM-based selection to balance recall and precision. Evaluations on SkillsBench and Terminal-Bench show that SkillFlow improves performance when high-quality skills are available, but retrieval alone does not help if the corpus lacks executable skills for the target domain.
By Fangzhou Li, Pagkratios Tagkopoulos, Ilias Tagkopoulos
arXiv:2608. 06196v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Agents backed by large skill libraries must decide which skills to load and in what order.
By Indivara Kolluru, Nathan Sportsman
arXiv:2608. 02356v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Large language model agents increasingly solve complex tasks by composing reusable skills from a library.
By Yue Yao, Shengyuan Wang, Xin Chen, Minke Zhang, Jia He, Bingjun Luo, Tom Gedeon
CaSKG introduces a counterfactual‑causal skill graph framework that calibrates procedural relations before retrieval, building a high‑recall directed candidate graph from semantic, lexical, input/output, and structural evidence and refining it with repair evidence and optional LLM judgment. The framework applies direction‑conditioned textual counterfactual probes—removing, substituting, and reordering skill pairs—to aggregate evidence with Bayesian smoothing, producing a state‑filtered weighted graph for task‑conditioned expansion. Evaluated across six LLM backbones on ALFWorld and ScienceWorld, CaSKG outperforms existing Graph‑of‑Skills methods, improving macro‑average scores and reducing mean environment steps while preserving essential skill dependencies.
By Zhiyuan Li, Linyuan Gao, Xuechun Ding, Hongwei Chen, Yuan Wu, Yi Chang
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:2608. 09168v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Agent skills are increasingly used to equip large language model (LLM) agents with reusable procedural knowledge.
By Liang He, Jingbo Wen, Hongyu Gu, Hao Li, Haoyu Wang, Yixiong Chen, Kangning Cui, Xilu Wang
arXiv:2606. 17645v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Large language model (LLM) web agents are usually deployed as tool callers: each turn, the model reads a fresh page observation and emits one structured tool action.
By Shiqi He, Yue Cui, Feijie Wu, Xinyu Ma, Jiaheng Lu, Yaliang Li, Bolin Ding, Mosharaf Chowdhury
arXiv:2609.38822v1 Announce Type: cross
Abstract: Anthropic's Agent Skills package reusable procedural know-how for an LLM agent into SKILL.md directories, and open-source aggregations have grown pas...
By Guanqun Yang, Wenlong Zhang, Tian Shi, Ping Wang
arXiv:2608. 12720v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: While Large Language Model (LLM) agents increasingly rely on long-term memory for persistent interactions, the retrieval mechanisms governing this memory are rarely treated as evolvable components.
By Haolong Chen, Liang Zhang, Zhuo Li, Lei Xue, Guanrxu Zhu
arXiv:2603. 22455v5 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Reusable skills let LLM agents package task-specific procedures, tool affordances, and execution guidance into modular building blocks.
By YanZhao Zheng, ZhenTao Zhang, Chao Ma, YuanQiang Yu, JiHuai Zhu, Yong Wu, Tianze Xu, Baohua Dong, Hangcheng Zhu, Ruohui Huang, Gang Yu