arXiv:2605.08693v3 Announce Type: replace
Abstract: Skills provide an effective mechanism for improving LLM agents on complex tasks, yet in existing agent frameworks, their creation, refinement, and...
By Min Yang, Jinghua Piao, Xu Xia, Xiaochong Lan, Jiaju Chen, Yongshun Gong, Yong Li
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: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:2606. 01311v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Large language model (LLM) agents increasingly rely on reusable external skills to solve long-horizon interactive tasks.
By Zhuoyun Yu, Xin Xie, Wuguannan Yao, Chenxi Wang, Lei Liang, Xiang Qi, Shumin Deng
arXiv:2609.36746v1 Announce Type: new
Abstract: Agent skills provide a lightweight mechanism for self-evolving agents to accumulate reusable procedural knowledge without updating model parameters. Ho...
By Zhen Xiong, Qiaoyu Tan
arXiv:2608. 15071v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Learning from experience is critical for developing capable, self-improving large language model (LLM) agents.
By Tianxin Wei, Zhan Shi, Minhua Lin, Bing He, Zewen Liu, Yisi Sang, Yuanchen Bei, Xuying Ning, Jiaru Zou, Ting-Wei Li, Xiao Lin, Yanjun Zhao, Chi Wang, Benoit Dumoulin, Dakuo Wang, Jingrui He, Hanqing Lu
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: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.
By Zhiyuan Jiang, Fangrui Huang, Hanwen Xing, Xander Wu, Yipeng Gao, Rui Cao, Mengdi Wang, Shilong Liu, Yijiang Li
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
SCAFFOLD is a self‑improving framework for visual web agents that automatically induces parametric, executable skills from successful trajectories and organizes them into a recursively composed hierarchy. It compresses the skill library using a minimum‑description‑length criterion and behavioral equivalence checks, and periodically distills these skills back into model weights to internalize the abstractions. Experiments on WebArena, VisualWebArena, and Online‑Mind2Web show that SCAFFOLD raises success rates by 11.1–17.2 absolute points over the best skill‑augmented baseline and continues to improve across five self‑improvement iterations without collapsing the library.
By Bowei He, Xiaokun Zhang, Meng Ding, Xue Liu
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. 03874v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Modern agent frameworks equip large language models with external skill libraries to solve complex tasks.
By Tianyi Guan, Yiding Wang, Haotong Yang, Siyuan Cao, Shirui Liu, Yi Hu, Jiaqi Li, Muhan Zhang