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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.…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2026-04-14 Le Chen , Erhu Feng , Yubin Xia , Haibo Chen

LLM-based coding agents rely on \emph{skills}, pre-packaged instruction sets that extend agent capabilities, yet every token of skill content injected into the context window incurs both monetary cost and attention dilution. To understand…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2026-04-01 Yudong Gao , Zongjie Li , Yuanyuanyuan , Zimo Ji , Pingchuan Ma , Shuai Wang

Recently, skills have been widely adopted in large language model (LLM)-based agent systems across various domains. In existing frameworks, skills are typically injected into the agent reasoning loop as contextual guidance once matched to a…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2026-05-18 Duling Xu , Zheng Chen , Zaifeng Pan , Jiawei Guan , Dong Dong , Jialin Li , Bangzheng Pu

Structured LLM workflows, where specialized LLM sub-agents execute according to a predefined graph, have become a powerful abstraction for solving complex tasks. Optimizing such workflows, i.e., selecting configurations for each sub-agent…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2026-05-14 Junyan Li , Zhang-Wei Hong , Maohao Shen , Yang Zhang , Chuang Gan

As LLM agents are increasingly built around reusable skills, a central challenge is no longer only whether agents can use provided skills, but whether they can generate correct, reusable, and executable skills from repositories and…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2026-05-19 Yifan Zhou , Zhentao Zhang , Ziming Cheng , Shuo Zhang , Qizhen Lan , Zhangquan Chen , Zhi Yang , QianyuXu , Ronghao Chen , Huacan Wang , Sen Hu

Large language models (LLMs) are increasingly used as semantic encoders and decoders in semantic communication. However, current LLM based systems mostly remain monolithic: a single prompted model, or a tightly coupled transmitter/receiver…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-05-05 Jingwen Fu , Ming Xiao , Mikael Skoglund

The transition from monolithic language models to modular, skill-equipped agents marks a defining shift in how large language models (LLMs) are deployed in practice. Rather than encoding all procedural knowledge within model weights, agent…

Multiagent Systems · Computer Science 2026-02-18 Renjun Xu , Yang Yan

AI agents can extend their capabilities at inference time by loading reusable skills into context, yet equipping an agent with too many skills, particularly irrelevant ones, degrades performance. As community-driven skill repositories grow,…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2026-03-31 Fangzhou Li , Pagkratios Tagkopoulos , Ilias Tagkopoulos

Real-world tool-using agents operate over long-horizon workflows with recurring structure and diverse demands, where effective behavior requires not only invoking atomic tools but also abstracting, and reusing higher-level tool…

Agent skills provide a lightweight way to adapt LLM agents to specialized domains by storing reusable procedural knowledge in structured files. However, whether downloaded from third parties or self-generated, these skills are often…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2026-05-28 Hanyu Wang , Yifan Lan , Bochuan Cao , Lu Lin , Jinghui Chen

Generating performant executables from high level languages is critical to software performance across a wide range of domains. Modern compilers perform this task by passing code through a series of well-studied optimizations at…

Programming Languages · Computer Science 2026-04-07 Benjamin Mikek , Danylo Vashchilenko , Bryan Lu , Panpan Xu

Skills are a promising way to improve LLM agent capabilities without retraining, while keeping the added procedure reusable and controllable. However, high-quality skills are still largely written by hand. We introduce SkillGen, a…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-05-13 Yuchen Ma , Yue Huang , Han Bao , Haomin Zhuang , Swadheen Shukla , Michel Galley , Xiangliang Zhang , Stefan Feuerriegel

In recent years, various computing-in-memory (CIM) processors have been presented, showing superior performance over traditional architectures. To unleash the potential of various CIM architectures, such as device precision, crossbar size,…

Hardware Architecture · Computer Science 2024-05-09 Songyun Qu , Shixin Zhao , Bing Li , Yintao He , Xuyi Cai , Lei Zhang , Ying Wang

Large language model (LLM) agents increasingly rely on reusable skills: capability packages that combine instructions, control flow, constraints, and tool calls. In current agent systems, however, skills are still represented by text-heavy…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2026-05-05 Qiliang Liang , Hansi Wang , Zhong Liang , Yang Liu

Enforcing security requirements in networked information systems relies on security controls to mitigate the risks from increasingly dangerous threats. Configuring security controls is challenging; even nowadays, administrators must perform…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-01-14 Cataldo Basile , Gabriele Gatti , Francesco Settanni

Skills have become a practical packaging mechanism for agent instructions, workflows, scripts, and reference materials. In enterprise settings, however, a skill often needs to express more than task guidance: goals, input boundaries,…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2026-05-26 Ting Liu

LLM agents are evolving rapidly, powered by code execution, tools, and the recently introduced agent skills feature. Skills allow users to extend LLM applications with specialized third-party code, knowledge, and instructions. Although this…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2026-02-26 David Schmotz , Luca Beurer-Kellner , Sahar Abdelnabi , Maksym Andriushchenko

Reusable skills let LLM agents package task-specific procedures, tool affordances, and execution guidance into modular building blocks. As skill ecosystems grow to tens of thousands of entries, exposing every skill at inference time becomes…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-04-02 YanZhao Zheng , ZhenTao Zhang , Chao Ma , YuanQiang Yu , JiHuai Zhu , Yong Wu , Tianze Xu , Baohua Dong , Hangcheng Zhu , Ruohui Huang , Gang Yu

Large language models (LLMs) have democratized software development, reducing the expertise barrier for programming complex applications. This accessibility extends to malicious software development, raising significant security concerns.…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-07-04 Lu Yan , Zhuo Zhang , Xiangzhe Xu , Shengwei An , Guangyu Shen , Zhou Xuan , Xuan Chen , Xiangyu Zhang

Autonomous AI agents increasingly extend their capabilities through Agent Skills: modular filesystem packages whose SKILL.md files describe when and how agents should use them. While this design enables scalable, on-demand capability…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2026-05-13 Shoumik Saha , Kazem Faghih , Soheil Feizi
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