Reusable skills improve smart-contract audits, but model choice dominates

Across 83 audit skills and seven agent–model configurations, performance gains depended chiefly on the underlying model and whether the agent activated the skill.

Top University
Cuifeng Gao · Juantao Zhong · Jiachi Chen · Shuai Wang · Daoyuan Wu

Lingnan University · The Hong Kong Polytechnic University · State Key Laboratory of Blockchain and Data Security · Zhejiang University · Hangzhou High-Tech Zone (Binjiang) Institute of Blockchain and Data Security

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The authors collected smart-contract auditing skills used in the wild and evaluated them on EVMBench while analyzing how they changed agent execution.

The authors systematically collected 83 reusable smart-contract audit skills, examining their structure, encoded security knowledge, workflows, and tool dependencies.

Why this paper

From Zhejiang University and 5 others · Part of Skill Selection for Agents, now 14 papers

In one line

Smart contract audit skills improve vulnerability detection by up to 22.8% but effectiveness depends primarily on the underlying model.

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Concepts

agent skillssmart contract auditingvulnerability detectionskill triggeringaudit workflowmodel capability
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