Agent skills are increasingly optimized by automated feedback loops, producing long structured artifacts whose internal value remains unclear. We study skill valuation: assigning credit to the internal units of a fixed skill, such as rules, examples, scripts, and heuristics, under a fixed agent and held-out task distribution.
arXiv:2608. 13173v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Agent skills are crucial external instructions that enable language agents to execute long procedural tasks such as coding or document processing.
By Chang Liu, Yuqi Zhang, Yiman Zhong, Boyi Liu, Hengjun Wang, Shuyue Wei
arXiv:2608. 06891v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Agent skills provide reusable procedural knowledge that helps agents solve specialized tasks.
By Jiahui Han, Qinuo Li, Ziheng Peng, Haotian Wu, Haoze Liu, Danfeng Shan, Guanchu Wang, Huiqi Deng, Ninghao Liu
arXiv:2606. 17819v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Agent skills -- structured, reusable knowledge artifacts that augment LLM agent capabilities -- have been rapidly adopted in industry, yet their cross-domain impact and use across commercial and open-source models remain under-studied, and no reusable methodology exists for evaluating an individual skill.
By Maksim Shaposhnikov, Nicolas Fortuin, Simon Stipcich, Maria I. Gorinova, Amy Heineike, Rob Willoughby
arXiv:2606. 20659v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Agent skills encode reusable procedural knowledge for large language model (LLM) agents, and existing benchmarks show that such skills can improve task-level performance.
By Boyin Tan, Xiaowei Huang, Youcheng Sun
arXiv:2607. 10113v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Large language model agents increasingly store reusable procedures outside the model.
By Yubo Li