Agents often repeatedly solve similar task instances from scratch, leading to unnecessary reasoning cost and long execution traces. Prior work has explored workflow reuse and executable skill induction, but it remains unclear which task scenarios admit procedural skills and how the shared procedural structure should be represented across successful traces.
arXiv:2606. 06893v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Large language model agents increasingly rely on Skills to encode procedural knowledge, yet high-quality Skills remain costly to hand-write.
By Yuyang Zhang, Xinyuan Han, Xudong Jiang, Run Wang
arXiv:2607. 25853v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Skills have become an important abstraction for enabling large language model (LLM) agents to reuse past experience in long-horizon interactive tasks.
By Yu Hao, Jinxuan Cai, Qi Zhang, Yawen Li, Zhiqiang Zhang, Chuan Shi, Cheng Yang
arXiv:2606. 01139v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Agent skills are procedural artifacts that enable LLM agents to execute workflows, verify constraints, and recover from failures.
By Yuxuan Liu, Zhaochen Su, Lingyun Xie, Yuhao Zhang, Qing Zong, Jiahe Guo, Zhongwei Xie, Yiyan Ji, Yauwai Yim, Hongyu Luo, Xiyu Ren, Ruan Chenyu, Haoran Li, Yangqiu Song
arXiv:2608. 05604v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Large Language Models (LLMs) increasingly act as agents whose procedural knowledge is stored in reusable skill packages and loaded at inference time.
By Xingyu Tan, Xiaoyang Wang, Qing Liu, Xiwei Xu, Xin Yuan, Liming Zhu, Wenjie Zhang
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:2608. 09253v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: LLM agents are increasingly equipped with skills to perform complex tasks through multi-step reasoning and tool use.
By You Lu, Xinyu Huang, Bihuan Chen, Xin Peng
arXiv:2608. 10039v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Agentic workflows have become an important abstraction for building reliable LLM-based automation systems by organizing large language models (LLMs), tools, and control logic into explicit execution structures.
By Shuo Hao, You Lu, Bihuan Chen, Xin Peng
arXiv:2604. 01687v3 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Anthropic proposes the concept of skills for LLM agents to tackle multi-step professional tasks that simple tool invocations cannot address.
By Hanrong Zhang (Steve), Shicheng Fan (Steve), Henry Peng Zou (Steve), Yankai Chen (Steve), Zhenting Wang (Steve), Jiayu Zhou (Steve), Chengze Li (Steve), Wei-Chieh Huang (Steve), Yifei Yao (Steve), Kening Zheng (Steve), Xue (Steve), Liu, Xiaoxiao Li, Philip S. Yu
arXiv:2607. 25560v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Agent skills package reusable procedures that improve downstream performance.
By Jianing Geng, Ruiqi He, Zekun Fei, Biao Yi, Ruijie Wang, Zheli Liu, Xia Hu, Xuansheng Wu, Qingkai Zeng
arXiv:2603. 25158v5 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Large Language Model (LLM) agents increasingly rely on domain-specific skills, yet manually authoring such skills does not scale, and skills generated purely from parametric knowledge often miss critical operational pitfalls.
By Jingwei Ni, Yihao Liu, Xinpeng Liu, Yutao Sun, Mengyu Zhou, Pengyu Cheng, Dexin Wang, Erchao Zhao, Xiaoxi Jiang, Guanjun Jiang
arXiv:2608. 11079v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Self-evolving agents accumulate reusable skills by appending successful procedures and failure fixes.
By Xiaofan Bai, Hongqiang Lin, Chao Liu, Yantao Zhang, Xuan Jin, Xipeng Cao, Yuhong Li