SkillSmith is a boundary-first compiler-runtime system that turns skill packages into minimal executable interfaces, cutting token usage 57%, thinking iterations 43%, and solve time 51% versus raw skill injection on SkillsBench.
SkVM: Revisiting Language VM for Skills across Heterogenous LLMs and Harnesses
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LLM agents increasingly adopt skills as a reusable unit of composition. While skills are shared across diverse agent platforms, current systems treat them as raw context, causing the same skill to behave inconsistently for different agents. This fragility undermines skill portability and execution efficiency. To address this challenge, we analyze 118,000 skills and draw inspiration from traditional compiler design. We treat skills as code and LLMs as heterogeneous processors. To make portability actionable, we decompose a skill's requirements into a set of primitive capabilities, and measure how well each model-harness pair supports them. Based on these capability profiles, we propose SkVM, a compilation and runtime system designed for portable and efficient skill execution. At compile time, SkVM performs capability-based compilation, environment binding, and concurrency extraction. At runtime, SkVM applies JIT code solidification and adaptive recompilation for performance optimization. We evaluate SkVM across eight LLMs of varying scales and three agent harnesses, covering SkillsBench and representative skill tasks. Results demonstrate that SkVM significantly improves task completion rates across different models and environments while reducing token consumption by up to 40%. In terms of performance, SkVM achieves up to 3.2x speedup with enhanced parallelism, and 19-50x latency reduction through code solidification.
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SKIM is an adaptive multi-resolution soft-token framework that compresses procedural skills while aiming to preserve logical dependencies and task performance better than prior compression methods.
Across 56 tasks, 9 model configurations, and 10,584 runs, LLM-generated skill files provided no reliable performance improvement over task-only prompting for data-science workflows.
SkillsVote is a governance system for agent skills that profiles corpora, recommends via search, and gates updates on successful reusable outcomes, yielding benchmark gains without model changes.
SLIM dynamically optimizes the active external skill set in agentic RL via leave-one-skill-out marginal contribution estimates and lifecycle operations, delivering a 7.1% average gain over baselines on ALFWorld and SearchQA while showing some skills remain externally useful.
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SkillSmith: Compiling Agent Skills into Boundary-Guided Runtime Interfaces
SkillSmith is a boundary-first compiler-runtime system that turns skill packages into minimal executable interfaces, cutting token usage 57%, thinking iterations 43%, and solve time 51% versus raw skill injection on SkillsBench.
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Adaptive Multi-Resolution Procedural Knowledge Compression for Large Language Models
SKIM is an adaptive multi-resolution soft-token framework that compresses procedural skills while aiming to preserve logical dependencies and task performance better than prior compression methods.
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Do LLM-Generated Skills Make Better AI Data Scientists? A Component Ablation Across Data-Science Workflows
Across 56 tasks, 9 model configurations, and 10,584 runs, LLM-generated skill files provided no reliable performance improvement over task-only prompting for data-science workflows.
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SkillsVote: Lifecycle Governance of Agent Skills from Collection, Recommendation to Evolution
SkillsVote is a governance system for agent skills that profiles corpora, recommends via search, and gates updates on successful reusable outcomes, yielding benchmark gains without model changes.
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Dynamic Skill Lifecycle Management for Agentic Reinforcement Learning
SLIM dynamically optimizes the active external skill set in agentic RL via leave-one-skill-out marginal contribution estimates and lifecycle operations, delivering a 7.1% average gain over baselines on ALFWorld and SearchQA while showing some skills remain externally useful.