arXiv AI
Jun 3

SkillDAG: Self-Evolving Typed Skill Graphs for LLM Skill Selection at Scale

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
arXiv AI
Sep 12

COBRA-Skills: Contextual Bandit-Guided Evolution for Agent Skill Optimization

COBRA‑Skills is a new framework that treats skill optimization for large language model agents as a budgeted sequential problem over a dynamically evolving candidate set. It uses contextual‑bandit prioritization to focus evaluations on promising or informative candidates and refines the skill population based on execution feedback. In experiments across six agent benchmarks and three target models, COBRA‑Skills outperforms existing methods, cuts optimization cost by 55–58 % compared to SkillOpt, and requires only 50 unique optimization examples per benchmark.

By Pingchen Lu, Xiangyi Wang, Xiang Li, Jie Mao, Zikun Qu, Junfeng Luo, Yao Shu, Bryan Kian Hsiang Low, Zhongxiang Dai
arXiv AI
Sep 28

SkillFlow: Scalable and Efficient Agent Skill Retrieval System

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