Agentic systems increasingly improve themselves by editing skills: prompts, rubrics, plans, tool contracts, examples, validators, and traces. Skill edits are not independent coordinates in a vector space: they are local repairs to structured artifacts whose effects are observed only after rollout, validation, and critique.
arXiv:2606. 01993v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Abundant procedural knowledge on the Web holds great potential for helping agents solve long-horizon tasks.
By Xinyu Che, Junqi Xiong, Yunfei Ge, Xinping Lei, Shihao Li, Hang Yan, Han Li, Yuanxing Zhang, Zhiqi Bai, Jinhua Hao, Ming Sun, Han Li, Jiaheng Liu
arXiv:2607. 20999v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Agent Skills package reusable procedural knowledge as external artifacts for frozen language-model agents, yet existing optimizers do not jointly resolve where a failure occurs in a workflow, which mechanism caused it, and how relevant knowledge from third-party Skills should be reused locally.
By Zibin Lin, Shengli Zhang, Taotao Wang, Yihan Xia, Deen Ma, Guofu Liao
arXiv:2607. 03451v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: While skill optimization for autonomous agents has gained traction, existing methods rely on complex pipelines.
By Yifei Shen, Bo Li, Xinjie Zhang
arXiv:2606. 14239v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Agent skills are structured procedural packages that guide frozen LLM agents in specialized workflows.
By Haowen Gao, Haoran Chen, Can Wang, Shasha Guo, Liang Pang, Zhaoyang Liu, Huawei Shen, Xueqi Cheng
arXiv:2607. 05297v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Recent LLM agents tackle increasingly long-horizon, open-ended tasks, and external skills, reusable procedural knowledge supplied to the agent, further extend this capability.
By Zefeng Wang, Minxi Yan, Jinhe Bi, Sikuan Yan, Volker Tresp, Yunpu Ma
arXiv:2606. 11543v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Agent Skills augment large language model (LLM) agents with procedural knowledge at inference time, but current benchmarks rarely distinguish what a Skill says from how it is organized.
By Zhiyu Chen, Zihan Guo, Bo Huang, Bingwei Lu, Jianghao Lin, Yuanjian Zhou, Weinan Zhang
Agent Skills augment large language model (LLM) agents with procedural knowledge at inference time, but current benchmarks rarely distinguish what a Skill says from how it is organized. We study this distinction through Progressive Disclosure, where a concise root file points agents to supporting resources on demand, and compare it with a normalized flat baseline.
arXiv:2511. 05852v4 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Knowledge editing (KE) offers a lightweight alternative to retraining for updating large language models (LLMs).
By Yinjie Cheng, Paul Youssef, Christin Seifert, J\"org Schl\"otterer, Zhixue Zhao
arXiv:2608. 02636v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Self-evolving skill systems promise to improve agents by turning execution feedback into persistent skill updates without changing the underlying model.
By Yuxuan Liu, Zhaochen Su, Yuhao Zhang, Jiahe Guo, Zhongwei Xie, Huihao Jing, Lingyun Xie, Qing Zong, Yauwai Yim, Zhixiong Zhang, Haoran Li, Yangqiu Song
arXiv:2606. 20333v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Agent skills are commonly deployed as natural-language Markdown files that encode answer policies, evidence-use habits, and task procedures.
By Xijia Tao, Yihua Teng, Xinyu Fu, Ziru Liu, Kecheng Chen, Yuzhi Zhao, Suiyun Zhang, Rui Liu, Lingpeng Kong
arXiv:2606. 10457v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Decision rules that enterprise experts apply tacitly -- in auditing, compliance, and contract review -- can be systematically recovered and improved through iterative error analysis.
By Junli Zha, Jinbo Wang, Chao Zhou, Xiang Song