SkillDAG builds a self-evolving typed skill graph that LLM agents query and update at inference time, raising success on ALFWorld and SkillsBench by 12.8 and 8.6 points over graph baselines.
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SelSkill applies dual-granularity preference learning to selective skill-or-skip decisions, improving task success by 10.9 points and execution precision by 29.1 points on ALFWorld with Qwen3-8B.
RS-Claw enables remote sensing agents to actively explore tools via hierarchical skill trees, achieving up to 86% token compression and outperforming flat registration and RAG baselines on Earth-Bench.
DataPRM is an environment-aware generative process reward model that improves LLM data analysis agents by 7-11% on benchmarks via active verification and reflection-aware ternary rewards.
SkillFlow benchmark shows lifelong skill evolution yields modest gains for some models like Claude Opus 4.6 but limited or negative utility for others despite high skill usage.
LLM-native figures embed provenance and enable direct LLM interaction with scientific visualizations to accelerate discovery and improve reproducibility.
SkillAxe is an unsupervised framework that decomposes LLM skill quality into four dimensions to generate improvement briefs, raising pass rates 28% relative on SkillsBench and from 16% to 52% on SpreadsheetBench.
SkillPyramid introduces a hierarchical skill consolidation framework with self-evolution, reporting 38% higher average reward and 27.7% fewer execution steps on ALFWorld, WebShop, and ScienceWorld across four models.
SkillAdaptor introduces step-level failure attribution and targeted skill updates for LLM agents, yielding performance gains on WebShop, PinchBench, and Claw-Eval benchmarks.
Catalogs ten patterns and synthesizes a four-layer reference architecture for skill harnessing in LLM agents, evaluated via cross-instantiation on eight systems.
SynLearner lets LLMs improve synthetic data generation on later tasks in a stream by learning reusable patterns and balancing quality with diversity from feedback on earlier tasks.
SPARK generates environment-verified trajectories to compute PDI, enabling posterior skill distillation that outperforms no-skill baselines and human-written skills across 86 tasks with up to 1000x cheaper inference.
GoSkills converts flat skill lists into role-labeled execution contexts via anchor-centered groups and graph expansion, preserving coverage and improving rewards on SkillsBench and ALFWorld under small skill budgets.
Ctx2Skill uses a self-evolving multi-agent loop with Challenger, Reasoner, Judge, and Cross-time Replay to discover context-specific skills, improving task-solving rates on CL-bench benchmarks across models.
SkillSynth uses a scenario-mediated skill graph to sample workflow paths and generate executable terminal tasks, enabling controlled diversity in training trajectories for agents.
SSL representation disentangles skill scheduling, structure, and logic using an LLM normalizer, improving skill discovery MRR@50 from 0.649 to 0.729 and risk assessment macro F1 from 0.409 to 0.509 over text baselines.
MedSkillAudit is a new domain-specific audit framework for medical research agent skills that achieved moderate agreement with expert reviews (ICC 0.449), exceeding the human inter-rater baseline (ICC 0.300).
Agent-World autonomously synthesizes verifiable real-world tasks and uses continuous self-evolution to train 8B and 14B agents that outperform proprietary models on 23 benchmarks.
SkillGraph jointly evolves agent skills and collaboration topologies in multi-agent vision-language systems using a multimodal graph transformer and a skill designer, yielding consistent performance gains on benchmarks.
Pomona automates discovery and repair of small code quality issues via agent skills, achieving 15 of 17 PRs merged with median close time under 2 hours in a one-month Bloomberg team deployment.
OpenSkill bootstraps LLM agent self-evolution by pulling grounded knowledge and anchors from open-world sources, synthesizing transferable skills, and refining them on self-generated virtual tasks, achieving top benchmark pass rates without supervision.
DataCOPE uses verifier-guided contrastive distillation from agent trajectories to discover skills, yielding average gains of 9.71% on report-style and 32.30% on reasoning-style data analysis tasks across four model settings.
Survey of auto-research systems identifies objective, validation, and acceptance collapses, concluding that workflow closure does not equal scientific closure and advocating non-autonomous epistemic control.
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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SkillDAG: Self-Evolving Typed Skill Graphs for LLM Skill Selection at Scale
SkillDAG builds a self-evolving typed skill graph that LLM agents query and update at inference time, raising success on ALFWorld and SkillsBench by 12.8 and 8.6 points over graph baselines.
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Skill or Skip? Learning Selective Skill Invocation in Agentic Tasks via Dual-Granularity Preference Learning
SelSkill applies dual-granularity preference learning to selective skill-or-skip decisions, improving task success by 10.9 points and execution precision by 29.1 points on ALFWorld with Qwen3-8B.
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RS-Claw: Progressive Active Tool Exploration via Hierarchical Skill Trees for Remote Sensing Agents
RS-Claw enables remote sensing agents to actively explore tools via hierarchical skill trees, achieving up to 86% token compression and outperforming flat registration and RAG baselines on Earth-Bench.
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Rewarding the Scientific Process: Process-Level Reward Modeling for Agentic Data Analysis
DataPRM is an environment-aware generative process reward model that improves LLM data analysis agents by 7-11% on benchmarks via active verification and reflection-aware ternary rewards.
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SkillFlow:Benchmarking Lifelong Skill Discovery and Evolution for Autonomous Agents
SkillFlow benchmark shows lifelong skill evolution yields modest gains for some models like Claude Opus 4.6 but limited or negative utility for others despite high skill usage.
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Figures as Interfaces: Toward LLM-Native Artifacts for Scientific Discovery
LLM-native figures embed provenance and enable direct LLM interaction with scientific visualizations to accelerate discovery and improve reproducibility.
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SkillAxe: Sharpening LLM-Authored Agent Skills Through Evaluation-Guided Self-Refinement
SkillAxe is an unsupervised framework that decomposes LLM skill quality into four dimensions to generate improvement briefs, raising pass rates 28% relative on SkillsBench and from 16% to 52% on SpreadsheetBench.
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SkillPyramid: A Hierarchical Skill Consolidation Framework for Self-Evolving Agents
SkillPyramid introduces a hierarchical skill consolidation framework with self-evolution, reporting 38% higher average reward and 27.7% fewer execution steps on ALFWorld, WebShop, and ScienceWorld across four models.
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SkillAdaptor: Self-Adapting Skills for LLM Agents from Trajectories
SkillAdaptor introduces step-level failure attribution and targeted skill updates for LLM agents, yielding performance gains on WebShop, PinchBench, and Claw-Eval benchmarks.
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Harnessing Agent Skills: Architectural Patterns and a Reference Architecture for Skill-Mediated LLM Agents
Catalogs ten patterns and synthesizes a four-layer reference architecture for skill harnessing in LLM agents, evaluated via cross-instantiation on eight systems.
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Make LLM Learn to Synthesize from Streaming Experiences through Feedback
SynLearner lets LLMs improve synthetic data generation on later tasks in a stream by learning reusable patterns and balancing quality with diversity from feedback on earlier tasks.
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Evidence Over Plans: Online Trajectory Verification for Skill Distillation
SPARK generates environment-verified trajectories to compute PDI, enabling posterior skill distillation that outperforms no-skill baselines and human-written skills across 86 tasks with up to 1000x cheaper inference.
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Group of Skills: Group-Structured Skill Retrieval for Agent Skill Libraries
GoSkills converts flat skill lists into role-labeled execution contexts via anchor-centered groups and graph expansion, preserving coverage and improving rewards on SkillsBench and ALFWorld under small skill budgets.
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From Context to Skills: Can Language Models Learn from Context Skillfully?
Ctx2Skill uses a self-evolving multi-agent loop with Challenger, Reasoner, Judge, and Cross-time Replay to discover context-specific skills, improving task-solving rates on CL-bench benchmarks across models.
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Toward Scalable Terminal Task Synthesis via Skill Graphs
SkillSynth uses a scenario-mediated skill graph to sample workflow paths and generate executable terminal tasks, enabling controlled diversity in training trajectories for agents.
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From Skill Text to Skill Structure: The Scheduling-Structural-Logical Representation for Agent Skills
SSL representation disentangles skill scheduling, structure, and logic using an LLM normalizer, improving skill discovery MRR@50 from 0.649 to 0.729 and risk assessment macro F1 from 0.409 to 0.509 over text baselines.
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MedSkillAudit: A Domain-Specific Audit Framework for Medical Research Agent Skills
MedSkillAudit is a new domain-specific audit framework for medical research agent skills that achieved moderate agreement with expert reviews (ICC 0.449), exceeding the human inter-rater baseline (ICC 0.300).
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Agent-World: Scaling Real-World Environment Synthesis for Evolving General Agent Intelligence
Agent-World autonomously synthesizes verifiable real-world tasks and uses continuous self-evolution to train 8B and 14B agents that outperform proprietary models on 23 benchmarks.
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SkillGraph: Self-Evolving Multi-Agent Collaboration with Multimodal Graph Topology
SkillGraph jointly evolves agent skills and collaboration topologies in multi-agent vision-language systems using a multimodal graph transformer and a skill designer, yielding consistent performance gains on benchmarks.
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Pomona: Continuous Code Quality Improvement via Small, Automated Changes at Bloomberg
Pomona automates discovery and repair of small code quality issues via agent skills, achieving 15 of 17 PRs merged with median close time under 2 hours in a one-month Bloomberg team deployment.
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OpenSkill: Open-World Self-Evolution for LLM Agents
OpenSkill bootstraps LLM agent self-evolution by pulling grounded knowledge and anchors from open-world sources, synthesizing transferable skills, and refining them on self-generated virtual tasks, achieving top benchmark pass rates without supervision.
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Unsupervised Skill Discovery for Agentic Data Analysis
DataCOPE uses verifier-guided contrastive distillation from agent trajectories to discover skills, yielding average gains of 9.71% on report-style and 32.30% on reasoning-style data analysis tasks across four model settings.
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Workflow Closure Is Not Scientific Closure in Auto-Research Systems
Survey of auto-research systems identifies objective, validation, and acceptance collapses, concluding that workflow closure does not equal scientific closure and advocating non-autonomous epistemic control.
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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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Skill1: Unified Evolution of Skill-Augmented Agents via Reinforcement Learning
Skill1 trains a single RL policy to co-evolve skill selection, utilization, and distillation in language model agents from one task-outcome reward, using low-frequency trends to credit selection and high-frequency variation to credit distillation, outperforming baselines on ALFWorld and WebShop.
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Red Skills or Blue Skills? A Dive Into Skills Published on ClawHub
Analysis of ClawHub shows language-based functional divides in agent skills, with over 30% flagged suspicious and submission-time documentation enabling 73% accurate risk prediction.
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"Skill issues'': data-centric optimization of lakehouse agents
Data-centric optimization of skills for agents on a branching lakehouse improves accuracy by 31.9% on 25 tasks via state-verification evaluation.
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A Comprehensive Survey on Agent Skills: Taxonomy, Techniques, and Applications
A survey that defines agent skills as reusable procedural artifacts and reviews methods, resources, and applications across their representation, acquisition, retrieval, and evolution stages.