EconSkills: Studying Skill Transfer and Retrieval for Web Agents on Live Economic Data
Read the original on arXiv AI →EconSkills is a skill library and evaluation framework that transforms verified EconWebArena trajectories into parameterized standard operating procedures for retrieving live economic data. Each skill captures scope, navigation steps, site-specific guidance, verification checks, and recovery steps, replacing instance-specific values with placeholders. The framework evaluates skill transfer to new tasks and the effectiveness of library retrieval, showing that matched skills improve success rates and reduce steps compared to no-skill prompting, while abstraction outperforms raw trajectory replay. At scale, retrieval performs competitively overall, excelling on directly covered tasks and compensating for uncovered tasks through approximate matches.
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