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cs.AIcs.SEEmpiricalRecentJun 21, 2026

Hypothesis-Driven Skill Optimization for LLM Agents

Fangxin Shang, Yehui Yang

This paper proposes Hypothesis-Driven Skill Optimization (HDSO), a train-free framework for improving action-oriented LLM agents with external skills while preserving their frozen inference endpoints.

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cs.ROcs.AIcs.MAEmpiricalRecentJun 30, 2026

ASPIRE: Agentic /Skills Discovery for Robotics

Runyu Lu, Yubo Wu, Ethan Kou, Letian Fu +10 more

ASPIRE is a continual learning system that autonomously writes and refines robot control programs in a code-as-policy paradigm, discovering transferable skills and surpassing prior methods on various…

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cs.CLRecentMay 29, 2026

Skill is Not One-Size-Fits-All: Model-Aware Skill Alignment for LLM Agents

Jianxiang Yu, Jiapeng Zhu, Bochen Lin, Qier Cui +2 more

The paper introduces MASA, a model-aware skill alignment framework that adaptively rewrites general and task-specific skills for LLM agents, achieving superior performance across diverse backbones and…

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cs.AIEmpiricalRecentJul 8, 2026

SkillCenter: A Large-Scale Source-Grounded Skill Library for Autonomous AI Agents

Tianming Sha, Yue Zhao, Lichao Sun, Yushun Dong

The paper introduces SkillCenter, a large open skill library for AI agents, with over 216,000 skills from various sources, and presents an end-to-end framework for acquiring, filtering, generating, gr…

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cs.AIcs.CLcs.LGRecentMay 29, 2026

COLLEAGUE.SKILL: Automated AI Skill Generation via Expert Knowledge Distillation

Tianyi Zhou, Dongrui Liu, Leitao Yuan, Jing Shao +1 more

COLLEAGUE.SKILL introduces an automated system that distills heterogeneous traces of human expertise and role-specific knowledge into portable, inspectable, and usable AI skill packages.

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cs.CLEmpiricalRecentJun 30, 2026

Generative Skill Composition for LLM Agents

Xinyu Zhao, Zhen Tan, Vaishnav Tadiparthi, Nakul Agarwal +4 more

This paper introduces SkillComposer, a method for structured skill composition in LLM agents, which predicts an executable skill plan that jointly specifies the activated subset, count, and execution…

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cs.AIRecentMay 31, 2026

SkillSmith: Co-Evolving Skills and Tools for Self-Improving Agent Systems

Yangbo Wei, Zhen Huang, Shaoqiang Lu, Junhong Qian +3 more

SkillSmith is a synergy-aware framework that jointly co-evolves skills and tools, significantly improving self-improving agent systems by modeling skill-tool interactions and diagnosing failures.

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cs.CLcs.AIcs.LGRecentJun 1, 2026

MMG2Skill: Can Agents Distill In-the-Wild Guides into Self-Evolving Skills?

Xinyu Che, Junqi Xiong, Yunfei Ge, Xinping Lei +9 more

The paper introduces MMG2Skill, a closed-loop framework that converts noisy, human-oriented web guides into editable, executable skills, significantly improving agent performance across diverse tasks.

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cs.AIRecentMay 31, 2026

SkillRevise: Improving LLM-Authored Agent Skills via Trace-Conditioned Skill Revision

Yuxuan Liu, Zhaochen Su, Lingyun Xie, Yuhao Zhang +10 more

SkillRevise is an execution-grounded framework that iteratively refines initial, imperfect LLM agent skills by diagnosing defects from execution evidence and applying empirically validated edits, sign…

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cs.AIRecentMay 27, 2026

You Live More Than Once: Towards Hierarchical Skill Meta-Evolving

Xujun Li, Kehan Zheng, Mingyuan Zhao, Yize Geng +6 more

The paper proposes HiSME, a lightweight hierarchical skill meta-evolving solution that jointly optimizes skills and the skill evolving strategy by learning meta-skills from task execution traces, lead…

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cs.LGcs.CLRecentJun 2, 2026

Skill-RM: Unifying Heterogeneous Evaluation Criteria via Agent Skill

Tao Chen, Gangwei Jiang, Pengyu Cheng, Siyuan Huang +9 more

The paper proposes Skill-RM, a unified framework that treats reward modeling as an agentic task to consistently integrate diverse evaluation criteria, achieving superior performance over traditional m…

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cs.CRcs.AIRecentApr 8, 2026

SkillTrojan: Backdoor Attacks on Skill-Based Agent Systems

Yunhao Feng, Yifan Ding, Yingshui Tan, Boren Zheng +5 more

SkillTrojan introduces a novel backdoor attack targeting the composition of reusable skills in agent systems, demonstrating high attack success rates with minimal impact on normal system functionality…

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cs.CLEmpiricalRecentJul 24, 2026

Skill Self-Play: Pushing the Frontier of LLM Capability with Co-Evolving Skills

Siyuan Huang, Pengyu Cheng, Haotian Liu, Tao Chen +9 more

This paper introduces Skill Self-Play (Skill-SP), a co-evolutionary framework for LLM training that bridges the gap between structured verification and open-ended exploration.

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cs.SEcs.AIcs.LGEmpiricalRecentJul 3, 2026

SkillOpt-Lite: Better and Faster Agent Self-evolution via One Line of Vibe

Yifei Shen, Bo Li, Xinjie Zhang

This paper proposes SkillOpt-Lite, a minimal viable pipeline for skill optimization in autonomous agents, which accelerates convergence and outperforms full SkillOpt.

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cs.CLcs.AIcs.IRRecentMay 28, 2026

SkillBrew: Multi-Objective Curation of Skill Banks for LLM Agents

Wentao Hu, Zhendong Chu, Yiming Zhang, Junda Wu +5 more

The paper introduces SkillBrew, a multi-objective framework that treats skill bank curation as a constrained optimization problem to build efficient and well-curated skill repositories for LLM agents.

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cs.CRcs.AIRecentMar 28, 2026

SkillTester: Benchmarking Utility and Security of Agent Skills

Leye Wang, Zixing Wang, Anjie Xu

SkillTester is a comprehensive tool and framework designed to benchmark both the functional utility and the security robustness of agent skills, providing standardized scores and status labels.

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cs.CLcs.AIcs.LGRecentMay 31, 2026

SkillAdaptor: Self-Adapting Skills for LLM Agents from Trajectories

Zhuoyun Yu, Xin Xie, Wuguannan Yao, Chenxi Wang +3 more

SkillAdaptor is a novel, training-free framework that enables stable, step-level adaptation of external skills for LLM agents by precisely attributing failures to specific skills.

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cs.CRRecentApr 5, 2026

SkillAttack: Automated Red Teaming of Agent Skills through Attack Path Refinement

Zenghao Duan, Yuxin Tian, Zhiyi Yin, Liang Pang +5 more

SkillAttack is a red-teaming framework that dynamically tests the exploitability of latent vulnerabilities in LLM agent skills using adversarial prompting, demonstrating that even benign skills pose s…

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cs.AIcs.LGstat.MLRecentJun 1, 2026

ReSkill: Reconciling Skill Creation with Policy Optimization in Agentic RL

Zelin He, Haotian Lin, Boran Han, Wei Zhu +5 more

ReSkill is an RL-in-the-loop framework that reconciles skill creation and policy optimization by automatically creating, testing, and refining modular skills alongside the agent's policy learning, lea…

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cs.AIEmpiricalRecentJul 24, 2026

The Regression Tax: Decomposing Why Skills Help and Hurt LLM Agents

Darshan Tank, Baran Nama

This paper measures the impact of procedural skills on LLM agents, distinguishing between improvements and regressions, and identifies causes of regression.

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