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Coding agents produce rich trajectories while solving software-engineering tasks. To enable agent self-evolution, these trajectories can be distilled into reusable procedural skills that compactly encode experience to guide future behavior.…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2026-05-26 Yanzhou Li , Yiran Zhang , Xiaoyu Zhang , Xiaoxia Liu , Yang Liu

Reusable skills play a key role in improving LLM-based agents, but existing skill-evolution methods often fail to ensure that evolved skills both cover the knowledge required by the task and remain aligned with the target task. As a result,…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2026-05-27 Dingzirui Wang , Xuanliang Zhang , Keyan Xu , Qingfu Zhu , Wanxiang Che , Yang Deng

Anthropic proposes the concept of skills for LLM agents to tackle multi-step professional tasks that simple tool invocations cannot address. A tool is a single, self-contained function, whereas a skill is a structured bundle of…

Skills, i.e., structured workflow instructions distilled for large language models (LLMs), are becoming an increasingly important mechanism for improving agent performance on real-world downstream tasks. However, as the open-source skill…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2026-05-29 Jiahao Ying , Boxian Ai , Wei Tang , Siyuan Liu , Yixin Cao

This paper proposes EvoAgent - an evolvable large language model (LLM) agent framework that integrates structured skill learning with a hierarchical sub-agent delegation mechanism. EvoAgent models skills as multi-file structured capability…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2026-04-27 Aimin Zhang , Jiajing Guo , Fuwei Jia , Chen Lv , Boyu Wang , Fangzheng Li

With AI agents increasingly deployed as long-running systems, it becomes essential to autonomously construct and continuously evolve customized software to enable interaction within dynamic environments. Yet, existing benchmarks evaluate…

Agent skills today are static artifact: authored once -- by human curation or one-shot generation from parametric knowledge -- and then consumed unchanged, with no mechanism to improve from real use. We propose \textbf{SkillEvolver}, a…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2026-05-12 Genrui Zhang , Erle Zhu , Jinfeng Zhou , Caiyan Jia , Hongning Wang

Autonomous web agents powered by large language models (LLMs) have shown promise in completing complex browser tasks, yet they still struggle with long-horizon workflows. A key bottleneck is the grounding gap in existing skill formulations:…

Code efficiency is a fundamental aspect of software quality, yet how to harness large language models (LLMs) to optimize programs remains challenging. Prior approaches have sought for one-shot rewriting, retrieved exemplars, or prompt-based…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2026-03-31 Zimu Wang , Yuling Shi , Mengfan Li , Zijun Liu , Jie M. Zhang , Chengcheng Wan , Xiaodong Gu

Most Large Language Model (LLM) agent memory systems rely on a small set of static, hand-designed operations for extracting memory. These fixed procedures hard-code human priors about what to store and how to revise memory, making them…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2026-05-26 Haozhen Zhang , Quanyu Long , Jianzhu Bao , Tao Feng , Weizhi Zhang , Haodong Yue , Wenya Wang

Large language model (LLM) agents rely on reusable skills to solve complex tasks. However, existing skill creation approaches treat skills as isolated and static artifacts, limiting their reusability, reliability, and long-term improvement.…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2026-05-27 Huawei Lin , Peng Li , Jie Song , Fuxin Jiang , Tieying Zhang

Embodied agents can benefit from skills that guide object search, action execution, and state changes across diverse environments. Since embodied environments vary across layouts, object states, and other execution factors, these skills…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2026-05-12 Ruofei Ju , Xinrui Wang , Xin Ding , Yifan Yang , Hao Wu , Shiqi Jiang , Qianxi Zhang , Hao Wen , Xiangyu Li , Weijun Wang , Kun Li , Yunxin Liu , Haipeng Dai , Wei Wang , Ting Cao

Agent skills today are hand-crafted, generated one-shot, or evolved through loosely controlled self-revision, none of which behaves like a deep-learning optimizer for the skill, and none of which reliably improves over its starting point…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2026-05-26 Yifan Yang , Ziyang Gong , Weiquan Huang , Qihao Yang , Ziwei Zhou , Zisu Huang , Yan Li , Xuemei Gao , Qi Dai , Bei Liu , Kai Qiu , Yuqing Yang , Dongdong Chen , Xue Yang , Chong Luo

The rise of powerful large language models (LLMs) has spurred a new trend in building LLM-based autonomous agents for solving complex tasks, especially multi-agent systems. Despite the remarkable progress, we notice that existing works are…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2025-03-11 Siyu Yuan , Kaitao Song , Jiangjie Chen , Xu Tan , Dongsheng Li , Deqing Yang

General-purpose computer-use agents have shown impressive performance across diverse digital environments. However, our new benchmark, OSExpert-Eval, indicates they remain far less helpful than human experts. Although inference-time scaling…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2026-03-10 Jiateng Liu , Zhenhailong Wang , Rushi Wang , Bingxuan Li , Jeonghwan Kim , Aditi Tiwari , Pengfei Yu , Denghui Zhang , Heng Ji

Multimodal agents can now tackle complex reasoning tasks with diverse tools, yet they still suffer from inefficient tool use and inflexible orchestration in open-ended settings. A central challenge is enabling such agents to continually…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2026-03-16 Guanyu Jiang , Zhaochen Su , Xiaoye Qu , Yi R. Fung

As the capability frontier of autonomous agents continues to expand, they are increasingly able to complete specialized tasks through plug-and-play external skills. Yet current benchmarks mostly test whether models can use provided skills,…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2026-04-21 Ziao Zhang , Kou Shi , Shiting Huang , Avery Nie , Yu Zeng , Yiming Zhao , Zhen Fang , Qishen Su , Haibo Qiu , Wei Yang , Qingnan Ren , Shun Zou , Wenxuan Huang , Lin Chen , Zehui Chen , Feng Zhao

The rapid proliferation of Claude agent skills has raised the central question of how to effectively leverage, manage, and scale the agent skill ecosystem. In this paper, we propose AgentSkillOS, the first principled framework for skill…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2026-03-03 Hao Li , Chunjiang Mu , Jianhao Chen , Siyue Ren , Zhiyao Cui , Yiqun Zhang , Lei Bai , Shuyue Hu

Skills are effective temporal abstractions established for sequential decision making, which enable efficient hierarchical learning for long-horizon tasks and facilitate multi-task learning through their transferability. Despite extensive…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-05-01 Jiayu Chen , Tian Lan , Vaneet Aggarwal

We argue that multi-agent test-time evolution is not single-agent evolution replicated N times. A single-agent learner can only evolve its own context and memory. A multi-agent system additionally evolves who collaborates, how they…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2026-05-13 Yaolun Zhang , Tianyi Xu , Shengyu Dai , Zhenwen Shao , Qingyun Wu , Huazheng Wang
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