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arxiv: 2605.23899 · v1 · pith:NJW2GMP2new · submitted 2026-05-22 · 💻 cs.AI

From Raw Experience to Skill Consumption: A Systematic Study of Model-Generated Agent Skills

Zisu Huang , Jingwen Xu , Yifan Yang , Ziyang Gong , Qihao Yang , Muzhao Tian , Xiaohua Wang , Changze Lv
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Xuemei Gao Qi Dai Bei Liu Kai Qiu Xue Yang Dongdong Chen Xiaoqing Zheng Chong Luo
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keywords model-generated skillsagent skillsskill extractionnegative transferlanguage agentsmeta-skillutility evaluation
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Model-generated skills improve agent performance on average but cause non-trivial negative transfer that varies by extractor and consumer.

A machine-rendered reading of the paper's core claim, the machinery that carries it, and where it could break.

The paper studies the complete lifecycle of skills that language agents distill from their own experiences: generating raw trajectories, extracting structured procedural skills, and then consuming those skills on new tasks. Using a utility-grounded framework run across five agentic domains, the work shows that the extracted skills help overall yet frequently produce negative transfer, that no model is uniformly strong at both extraction and consumption, and that skill value does not track model scale or original task performance. The authors derive a meta-skill that steers extraction toward features actually tied to downstream utility; this meta-skill raises skill quality and sharply reduces negative transfer.

Core claim

Model-generated skills are beneficial on average but exhibit non-trivial negative transfer; neither extractors nor targets behave uniformly; skill utility is independent of model scale or baseline task strength; a meta-skill guides extraction toward utility-linked features and consistently improves quality while reducing negative transfer.

What carries the argument

A utility-grounded evaluation framework that measures the full lifecycle of experience generation, skill extraction, and skill consumption, together with a meta-skill that directs extraction toward utility-linked features.

If this is right

  • Extractors and consumers can be specialized separately because a model strong at one role need not be strong at the other.
  • Skill utility must be measured after consumption rather than at extraction time alone.
  • The meta-skill can be reused across domains to improve extracted skills without domain-specific redesign.

Where Pith is reading between the lines

These are editorial extensions of the paper, not claims the author makes directly.

  • Agent skill libraries will likely need ongoing meta-guidance or filtering to avoid accumulating harmful skills.
  • Smaller models may suffice as extractors if the meta-skill is used, decoupling extraction cost from consumer model size.
  • Negative transfer patterns could be used to design automatic rejection criteria before skills enter a shared library.

Load-bearing premise

That the utility-grounded evaluation framework and the five chosen agentic task domains produce measurements that generalize beyond the specific models, prompts, and environments tested, without hidden selection effects in experience generation or consumption.

What would settle it

Repeating the extraction-consumption experiments on a new agentic domain or with a fresh set of models shows either uniform positive transfer without the meta-skill or no quality gain and no reduction in negative transfer when the meta-skill is applied.

read the original abstract

Language agents increasingly improve by reusing \emph{skills} -- structured procedural artifacts distilled from past experience. In particular, \emph{domain-level} and \emph{model-generated} skills are especially promising. They offer fast adaptation within a domain by encoding domain-specific recurring procedures, and they scale beyond labor-intensive hand-crafting. However, while extraction methods continue to proliferate, understanding remains limited, with no comprehensive study spanning the full skill lifecycle -- \textbf{experience generation}, \textbf{skill extraction}, and \textbf{skill consumption} -- to ask whether such skills actually work, when they work, and what makes them succeed or fail. To close this gap, we build a utility-grounded evaluation framework that provides systematic experimental results across extractors and target agents, covering five diverse agentic task domains. We find that model-generated skills are beneficial on average but exhibit non-trivial negative transfer, and that neither extractors nor targets behave uniformly. A model can be a strong extractor yet a weak consumer, or vice versa, with skill utility independent of model scale or baseline task strength. To explain these patterns, we then dissect each lifecycle stage in depth, analyzing how experience composition shapes skill quality, what properties characterize useful skills, and how the same skill transfers across different consumers. Finally, we translate these findings into a concrete \emph{meta-skill} that guides skill extraction toward the features tied to actual utility, which consistently improves skill quality across domains and substantially reduces negative transfer.

Editorial analysis

A structured set of objections, weighed in public.

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Referee Report

2 major / 2 minor

Summary. The paper presents a systematic empirical study of model-generated skills for language agents, spanning the full lifecycle of experience generation, skill extraction, and skill consumption. Using a utility-grounded evaluation framework across five diverse agentic task domains, it reports that such skills yield average benefits yet exhibit non-trivial negative transfer; extractors and consumers behave non-uniformly (a strong extractor need not be a strong consumer); skill utility is independent of model scale and baseline task performance; and a proposed meta-skill that steers extraction toward utility-linked features improves quality while reducing negative transfer.

Significance. If the measurements hold, the work supplies the first comprehensive, utility-grounded dissection of the skill lifecycle, moving the field beyond isolated extraction heuristics toward principled understanding of when skills transfer or harm performance. The empirical demonstration of non-uniformity and the concrete meta-skill constitute reusable methodological contributions that could inform both future agent design and evaluation protocols.

major comments (2)
  1. [§3 (Utility-Grounded Evaluation Framework) and §5 (Lifecycle Dissection)] The central claims (average benefit with negative transfer; meta-skill gains; independence from scale) rest on the representativeness of the five domains and the chosen experience-generation procedure. No ablation or sensitivity analysis is reported that varies prompt distributions, trajectory sampling strategies, or task parametrizations outside the original set, so it remains possible that the observed patterns are artifacts of hidden selection effects in how raw experience is produced.
  2. [§8 (Meta-Skill Translation)] The meta-skill is presented as consistently improving quality and reducing negative transfer across domains, yet the manuscript provides no cross-validation on held-out domains or model families different from those used to derive the meta-skill itself; this leaves the generality of the meta-skill claim load-bearing but untested.
minor comments (2)
  1. [Figures 4–7] Table captions and axis labels in the result figures should explicitly state the number of runs and statistical test used for the reported averages and negative-transfer rates.
  2. [§4 (Experimental Setup)] The five task domains are listed but their precise environment parameters, observation spaces, and action spaces are not summarized in a single table; adding this would aid reproducibility.

Simulated Author's Rebuttal

2 responses · 0 unresolved

We thank the referee for the constructive review and for recognizing the paper's contributions to a utility-grounded dissection of the skill lifecycle. We address each major comment below and commit to revisions that directly strengthen the robustness and generality claims.

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  1. Referee: [§3 (Utility-Grounded Evaluation Framework) and §5 (Lifecycle Dissection)] The central claims (average benefit with negative transfer; meta-skill gains; independence from scale) rest on the representativeness of the five domains and the chosen experience-generation procedure. No ablation or sensitivity analysis is reported that varies prompt distributions, trajectory sampling strategies, or task parametrizations outside the original set, so it remains possible that the observed patterns are artifacts of hidden selection effects in how raw experience is produced.

    Authors: We agree that the lack of explicit sensitivity analyses on experience generation constitutes a limitation for the robustness of the central claims. In the revised manuscript we will add a dedicated subsection reporting ablations that systematically vary prompt distributions, trajectory sampling strategies, and task parametrizations within the five domains. These experiments will quantify the stability of the reported patterns (average benefit, negative transfer, and meta-skill gains) and will include discussion of potential selection effects. While the five domains were selected for diversity across navigation, manipulation, reasoning, and multi-agent interaction, we accept that additional internal checks are necessary to rule out artifacts. revision: yes

  2. Referee: [§8 (Meta-Skill Translation)] The meta-skill is presented as consistently improving quality and reducing negative transfer across domains, yet the manuscript provides no cross-validation on held-out domains or model families different from those used to derive the meta-skill itself; this leaves the generality of the meta-skill claim load-bearing but untested.

    Authors: We concur that the meta-skill's generality claim requires explicit testing beyond the derivation domains and model families. In the revision we will conduct and report cross-validation experiments that apply the meta-skill to held-out domains not used during its development and to additional model families. These results will be presented alongside the original findings to substantiate (or qualify) the claim of consistent improvement and reduced negative transfer. revision: yes

Circularity Check

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Empirical evaluation framework contains no circular derivations or self-referential predictions

full rationale

The paper presents an empirical study spanning experience generation, skill extraction, and consumption across five agentic domains. It constructs a utility-grounded evaluation framework and reports experimental observations on average benefits, negative transfer, non-uniform extractor/consumer behavior, and a meta-skill improvement. No equations, fitted parameters, or mathematical derivations appear in the provided text. Claims rest on direct experimental measurements rather than any reduction to inputs by construction, self-citation chains, or renamed known results. The absence of any load-bearing self-definitional or fitted-input steps makes the derivation chain self-contained against external benchmarks.

Axiom & Free-Parameter Ledger

0 free parameters · 0 axioms · 0 invented entities

Abstract-only input supplies no concrete free parameters, axioms, or invented entities; the evaluation framework and meta-skill are described at a high level without implementation details.

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