The paper introduces an online skill‑evolution framework that transforms interaction traces and evaluator feedback into a persistent, versioned library of reusable procedures for computer‑use agents. By executing each iteration against a frozen library snapshot, the system updates skills without altering the underlying model parameters. Experiments across four OSWorld domains show that the evolving library consistently outperforms an empty‑library baseline, with gains ranging from 5.7 to 18.6 percentage points, while also revealing domain‑specific temporal stability and challenges in skill retrieval and revision.
By Longtao Hu, Xiao Liang, Linchao Zhu
SkillNEO introduces a non‑elitist evolutionary framework for refining agent skills, allowing lower‑reward versions to receive further edits and preserve useful partial repairs. By separating the selection of a version to use from the selection of versions to improve, the method identifies which steps to keep and which failures to fix, even revisiting earlier versions with new evidence. Experiments on 86 SkillsBench tasks across eight domains show significant reward gains for GPT‑5.4 Mini and substantial improvements when the evolved skills are reused by stronger models such as GPT‑5.5 and GPT‑5.6 Luna.
By Enze Ma, Chunyu Miao, Yankai Chen, Jie Yang, Liancheng Fang, Kening Zheng, Hanrong Zhang, Muyao Xu, Xinle Yu, Chengze Li, Wei-Chieh Huang, Ziwei Ren, Yunhao Du, Zhixiang Shen, Xue Liu, Philip S. Yu, Zhen Wang
arXiv:2607. 20999v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Agent Skills package reusable procedural knowledge as external artifacts for frozen language-model agents, yet existing optimizers do not jointly resolve where a failure occurs in a workflow, which mechanism caused it, and how relevant knowledge from third-party Skills should be reused locally.
By Zibin Lin, Shengli Zhang, Taotao Wang, Yihan Xia, Deen Ma, Guofu Liao
arXiv:2607. 05297v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Recent LLM agents tackle increasingly long-horizon, open-ended tasks, and external skills, reusable procedural knowledge supplied to the agent, further extend this capability.
By Zefeng Wang, Minxi Yan, Jinhe Bi, Sikuan Yan, Volker Tresp, Yunpu Ma
MetaExp is a framework that trains language‑model agents to learn reusable experience across tasks by using verifiable cross‑task environment scaling. It introduces two designs—Shared‑Tool families that keep black‑box tools constant and Shared‑Workflow families that preserve latent procedures—allowing agents to acquire operational and procedural experience respectively. After fine‑tuning Qwen3.5‑122B‑A10B on thousands of trajectories from 1,000 task families, MetaExp achieves significant performance gains on benchmarks such as SpreadsheetBench, APEX‑Agents, and AutomationBench, with improvements persisting even when domain‑excluded training is applied.
By Renhao Li, Xinjie Shen, Yang Su, Jianhong Tu, Derek F. Wong, Dayiheng Liu, Min Yang
arXiv:2608. 08466v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Modern LLM agents are often improved by modifying prompts, tools, or workflows manually, while the executable scaffold surrounding the model---the \emph{harness}---is typically treated as a fixed artifact after deployment.
By Tailin Zhou