arXiv AI By Tanay Arora, Cong Liu

AutoOnboarder: Autonomously Onboarding LLM Agents

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AutoOnboarder is an autonomous system that adapts large language model agents to specific tasks by iteratively refining the agent’s foundation model, prompt, and harness code under the guidance of an intelligent coding agent called the Onboarder. The Onboarder operates with only a few examples and evaluates performance on a separate virtual machine to avoid data leakage. In experiments on genomic‑sequencing prior authorization form submission, autonomously onboarded agents matched or surpassed a Gemini 3.5 Flash baseline while reducing costs up to 29×, though performance varied and the agents were not perfect.

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arXiv AI
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Don't Prompt Your Agents. Equip Them: Skillware as a Modular Standard for Sovereign, Auditable, and Deterministic Capability Execution for Logical Systems

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By Vladimiros Peilivanidis (ARPA Hellenic Logical Systems)
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CoEvoSkills: Self-Evolving Agent Skills via Co-Evolutionary Verification

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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