Skill evolution improves agent performance in image generation workflows

COMFYCLAW uses a region-level VLM verifier and a progressively disclosed skill library to outperform baselines without skill evolution.

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Zongxia Li · Dawei Liu · Fuxiao Liu · Yuhang Zhou · Xiyang Wu · Jingxi Chen · +3 more

University of Pennsylvania · Nvidia · Lehigh University · University of Maryland

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Self-evolving skill libraries improve agent reliability in recurring image generation workflow construction.

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The paper introduces COMFYCLAW, a system that helps AI agents build and refine image generation workflows in ComfyUI. It treats workflow construction as editing a typed graph, with tools organized by stage and automatic rollback of invalid edits. A region-level verifier detects visual failures and suggests repairs.

The key innovation is a self-evolving skill library: trajectories, errors, and verifier feedback from previous runs are distilled into reusable . Across multiple benchmarks and models, COMFYCLAW outperforms systems without skill evolution, and human annotators prefer its outputs. The work shows that evolving a library of reusable skills from past experience improves agent performance on recurring visual workflows.

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