arXiv AI

Do Personalized Skills Help Coding Agents? An Empirical Study of Developer Interaction Histories

arXiv:2608. 10319v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Large language model (LLM)-powered agents have rapidly evolved from code-completion tools into solvers of complex software engineering tasks.

arXiv Computation and Language
Sep 23

WatchPoint: Executable User Feedback for Real-World Agentic Web Development

WatchPoint is a simulated‑user system that generates and runs diagnostic scripts against a live web application, producing structured observations to guide coding model retries. Unlike prior methods that rely on screenshots or non‑executable metrics, WatchPoint operates on Web‑Bench—a benchmark of 50 multi‑file web projects with 1,000 sequential tasks verified by deterministic end‑to‑end tests. It recovers 57.6% of diagnosed tasks, matching a human tester’s 54.5% recovery rate, and identifies when such simulated feedback is beneficial or should be withheld.

By Guanqun Yang, Wei Yang, Xueqing Liu
arXiv AI
Aug 25

SkillAlchemy: Open-World Agent Skill Creation

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
arXiv Computation and Language
Sep 25

An Empirical Study of Automating Agent Evaluation

The paper presents EvalAgent, an AI assistant that automates agent evaluation by encoding domain expertise into evaluation skills such as procedural instructions, reusable code, and dynamic API retrieval. EvalAgent constructs a trace-based pipeline that outputs metrics, executable code, and reports, and is evaluated using a new meta-evaluation framework and AgentEvalBench. Results show that EvalAgent improves the Eval@1 metric from 17.5% to 65% and receives 79.5% human expert preference, while ablation studies confirm the importance of evaluation skills.

By Kang Zhou, Sangmin Woo, Haibo Ding, Kiran Ramnath, Subramanian Chidambaram, Aosong Feng, Vinayak Arannil, Muhyun Kim, Ishan Singh, Darren Wang, Zhichao Xu, Megha Gandhi, Nirmal Prabhu, Soumya Smruti Mishra, Smeet Dhakecha, Vivek Singh, Gouri Pandeshwar, Lin Lee Cheong
arXiv AI
Jun 17

A Framework for Evaluating Agentic Skills at Scale

arXiv:2606. 17819v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Agent skills -- structured, reusable knowledge artifacts that augment LLM agent capabilities -- have been rapidly adopted in industry, yet their cross-domain impact and use across commercial and open-source models remain under-studied, and no reusable methodology exists for evaluating an individual skill.

By Maksim Shaposhnikov, Nicolas Fortuin, Simon Stipcich, Maria I. Gorinova, Amy Heineike, Rob Willoughby