arXiv:2606. 03056v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: As LLM agents adopt large skill libraries, selecting the right subset becomes a structural problem rather than a similarity-matching one: skills depend on, conflict with, specialize, or duplicate one another, a structure invisible to both full enumeration and embedding similarity.
By Tong Bai, Zhenglin Wan, Pengfei Zhou, Xingrui Yu, Wangbo Zhao, Yang You, Ivor W. Tsang
SkillFlow is an open, multi-stage retrieval system that helps AI agents selectively load relevant skills from a large library of community-contributed SKILL.md definitions. The pipeline uses dense retrieval, two rounds of cross-encoder reranking, and LLM-based selection to balance recall and precision. Evaluations on SkillsBench and Terminal-Bench show that SkillFlow improves performance when high-quality skills are available, but retrieval alone does not help if the corpus lacks executable skills for the target domain.
By Fangzhou Li, Pagkratios Tagkopoulos, Ilias Tagkopoulos
arXiv:2609.08228v1 Announce Type: new
Abstract: Modern LLM agents increasingly rely on reusable skills, yet as skill libraries scale to thousands of entries, effective retrieval becomes a bottleneck....
By Dawei Fu, Cheng Jiang, Sitian Qian, Huainan Wang, Zhongkai Hao
arXiv:2605.05726v2 Announce Type: replace
Abstract: As LLM agents are increasingly deployed with large libraries of reusable skills, selecting the right skill for a user request has become a critical...
By Hongcheol Cho, Ryangkyung Kang, Youngeun Kim
Large language model agents increasingly rely on reusable skills to extend their capabilities beyond parametric knowl- edge. However, retrieving the appropriate skill from a large- scale library remains challenging because realistic user re- quests are often concise and underspecified, stating only the task goal while leaving the required capabilities and execu- tion steps implicit.
SkillGym is an automatic pipeline that generates verifiable environments for training skill-use agents. It crawls internet skills, filters for reproducible workflows, and uses a builder‑reviewer process to create difficulty‑controlled tasks with reference solutions and verifiers. The system builds 6.8k environments, collects 19k successful trajectories, and fine‑tunes LLMs from 2B to 122B parameters, improving performance and skill invocation rates.
By Renxi Wang, Mingshan Hee, Fajri Koto, Timothy Baldwin, Haonan Li
arXiv:2608. 09168v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Agent skills are increasingly used to equip large language model (LLM) agents with reusable procedural knowledge.
By Liang He, Jingbo Wen, Hongyu Gu, Hao Li, Haoyu Wang, Yixiong Chen, Kangning Cui, Xilu Wang
arXiv:2607. 18785v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: As large language model agents gain access to increasingly large skill libraries, retrieving the right skill becomes critical to reliable capability selection and execution.
By Jinying Xiao, Bin Li, Xiaopeng Li, Jianling Li, Jiacheng Jie, Xiaodong Liu, Ma Jun, Chao Wang, Nyima Tashi, Jie Yu
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.
By Boyin Tan, Xiaowei Huang, Youcheng Sun
Agent skills are increasingly used to equip large language model (LLM) agents with reusable procedural knowledge. Although recent work has substantially improved skill retrieval due to the increasing skill libraries, retrieving a plausible skill bundle does not guarantee that executing it is worthwhile.
arXiv:2608. 08640v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Large language model agents increasingly rely on reusable skills to extend their capabilities beyond parametric knowl- edge.
By Donghong Jiang, Endian Lin, Luoping Cui, Hanqing Liu, Mingjie Liu, Fan Yang, Hong Wang, Zhao Yang, Chuang Zhu
arXiv:2607. 18785v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: As large language model agents gain access to increasingly large skill libraries, retrieving the right skill becomes critical to reliable capability selection and execution.
By Jinying Xiao, Bin Ji, Shasha Li, Xiaodong Liu, Ma Jun, Jiacheng Jie, Chao Wang, Nyima Tashi, Jie Yu