arXiv AI
Aug 13
Agent Skills Can Be Harmful: An Empirical Study of Skill-Induced Failures in LLM Agents
arXiv:2608. 11888v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Agent skills are the de facto mechanism for extending LLM agents with reusable guidance.
Skill Coverage: A Test Adequacy Metric for Agent Skills
arXiv:2606. 20659v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Agent skills encode reusable procedural knowledge for large language model (LLM) agents, and existing benchmarks show that such skills can improve task-level performance.
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arXiv AI
Jun 11
SkillJuror: Measuring How Agent Skill Organization Changes Runtime Behavior
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.
Hugging Face Trending Papers
Jun 10
SkillJuror: Measuring How Agent Skill Organization Changes Runtime Behavior
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 AI
Aug 11
SkillSentry: Reliable Skill Execution for LLM Agents via Runtime Assurance
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.
Hugging Face Trending Papers
Aug 12
Agent Skills Can Be Harmful: An Empirical Study of Skill-Induced Failures in LLM Agents
Agent skills are the de facto mechanism for extending LLM agents with reusable guidance. A skill can shape the agent's task execution, including planning, tool use, problem-solving, and validation.
arXiv AI
Aug 17
Demystifying Agent Skills: Why They Work-Until They Don't
arXiv:2608. 14036v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Skills have emerged as a practical and effective approach for enhancing LLM agents at inference time through structured packages of knowledge.
arXiv AI
Aug 10
SkillEval: Decomposing Agent Skill Quality into Interpretable Signals
arXiv:2608. 06891v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Agent skills provide reusable procedural knowledge that helps agents solve specialized tasks.
arXiv AI
Jun 9
Skill Retrieval Augmentation for Agentic AI
arXiv:2604. 24594v3 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: As large language models (LLMs) evolve into agentic problem solvers, they increasingly rely on external, reusable skills to handle tasks beyond their native parametric capabilities.
arXiv AI
Jun 15
SkillAudit: Ground-Truth-Free Skill Evolution via Paired Trajectory Auditing
arXiv:2606. 14239v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Agent skills are structured procedural packages that guide frozen LLM agents in specialized workflows.
arXiv AI
Aug 11
FailForge: Distilling Procedural Competence from Persistent Failures into Code Agents
arXiv:2608. 08570v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Rejection sampling fine-tuning (RFT) is widely used to train code agents by generating trajectories on verifiable software engineering tasks, retaining those that pass the tests, and fine-tuning on the successful rollouts.
arXiv AI
Jun 2
SkillRevise: Improving LLM-Authored Agent Skills via Trace-Conditioned Skill Revision
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.
arXiv Computation and Language
Sep 24
SkillGym: Internalizing Human Skills into LLMs for Real-World Problem Solving
arXiv:2609.27717v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Human-written agent skills encode rich workflows for real-world problem solving, but are typically used as external inference-time instructions rather...