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An Empirical Study of Agent Skills' Downstream Utility
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Hugging Face Trending Papers
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arXiv AI
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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.
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SkillFlow: Scalable and Efficient Agent Skill Retrieval System
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arXiv AI
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SkillsVote: Lifecycle Governance of Agent Skills from Collection, Recommendation to Evolution
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arXiv Computation and Language
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Signal or Noise? A Benchmark Study of Agent Skills in Web Development
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