arXiv Computation and Language By Daniel Chalef, Peter Evans, Pavlo Paliychuk, Mehul Patel, Preston Rasmussen, Jack Ryan

Learning by Doing: Autonomously Compiling and Curating Agent Skills from Verified Traces

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The paper introduces Zep Agent Skills, a production service that autonomously compiles and curates procedural memory for large language model agents by converting verified execution traces into versioned skills. It records each task attempt as a trace, uses a compiler with Reflector and Curator roles to transform verified traces into skills, and applies admission gates and search ranking based on verified outcomes. The open Agent Skills format, originally from Anthropic, allows any host to load compiled skills, and evaluation on several benchmarks shows significant performance gains for weaker executor models without additional training.

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