Skill optimization improves itself to beat handcrafted agent skills

Tao et al. show that a meta agent which rewrites its own optimization procedure lifts pass rates on 83 agentic tasks, with the main gain coming from the self-improvement loop.

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Wangcheng Tao · Zhanglu Yan · Han Wu · Weng-Fai Wong

National University of Singapore · City University of Hong Kong

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Illustration: Skill optimization improves itself to beat handcrafted agent skills
Tao et al. present Skill∞, a framework that makes skill optimization recursively self-improving: a meta agent follows a meta-skill to optimize task skills, and the same procedure optimizes the meta-skill itself.

Skill∞ encodes the skill optimizer itself as a skill.

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