Agent skill for plugin migration shows reward gains but hides grading errors

A retrospective study of a shipped plugin-upgrade skill found that while mean reward increased from 93.83 to 98.75, detailed contract inspection revealed grading errors including a containment predicate that accepted the parent directory.

Chinese Tech

Tsinghua University · Fudan University · PetroChina Southwest Oil & Gasfield Company · Jilin University · The Frederick Gunn School

Research Digest··3 min read
The authors studied 64 reports on 16 static migration tasks, with two attempts per condition and 328 criterion decisions, evaluating a shipped plugin-upgrade skill.

The authors performed a retrospective evaluation of a plugin-upgrade skill designed for coding agents.

Why this paper

From University of Chinese Academy of Sciences and 18 others

In one line

Version-specific agent skills raised plugin-migration scores, but concentrated gains and grading errors made aggregate reward unreliable evidence of contract-correct advice.

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