arXiv:2604. 08377v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Large language model (LLM) agents such as OpenClaw rely on reusable skills to perform complex tasks, yet these skills remain largely static after deployment.
By Ziyu Ma, Shidong Yang, Yuxiang Ji, Xucong Wang, Yong Wang, Yiming Hu, Tongwen Huang, Xiangxiang Chu
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. 01185v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Coding agents are becoming users of data infrastructure, but their success depends not only on model quality: it also depends on the skills and environment files that teach agents how to use a system.
By Nicole Rose Schneider, Davide Ghilardi, Giacomo Piccinini, Jacopo Tagliabue
arXiv:2602. 12430v4 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: The transition from monolithic language models to modular, skill-equipped agents marks a defining shift in how large language models (LLMs) are deployed in practice.
By Renjun Xu, Yang Yan
arXiv:2606. 01185v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Coding agents are becoming users of data infrastructure, but their success depends not only on model quality: it also depends on the skills and environment files that teach agents how to use a system.
By Nicole Rose Schneider, Davide Ghilardi, Giacomo Piccinini, Jacopo Tagliabue
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:2607. 18970v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Agent Skills have become persistent behavioral artifacts across independent AI agent systems.
By Haodi Fan, Zucong Lan
Under the current standard, Agent Skills are SKILL. md files that combine instructions with supporting resources, enabling Large Language Model (LLM) agents to reuse procedures beyond a single conversation.
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
arXiv:2607. 10113v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Large language model agents increasingly store reusable procedures outside the model.
By Yubo Li
arXiv:2608. 08453v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Under the current standard, Agent Skills are SKILL.
By Chi Zhang, Yimin Liu, Xinze Chen, Ping Ji
arXiv:2607. 16345v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Modern agentic systems increasingly rely on skills: installable packages of natural language and code that teach an LLM agent to perform a domain task.
By Tejas Singh Anand, Yuet Ying Christina Wang, Wanting Jiang, Steve Masson, Tian Zheng, Bingjie Zhou