The papers

Most central to this idea first, not most recent.

• Chinese Techcs.CL

  Verified workflow training gives language models reusable procedural skills

  East China Normal University, Shanghai AI Laboratory · Sept 2026

• Independentcs.AI

  Reusable code skills help language agents progress farther at lower cost

  Sept 2026

• Independentcs.AI

  Reusable code skills help language agents act and learn efficiently

  Sept 2026

• Top Universitycs.SE

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

  Lingnan University, The Hong Kong Polytechnic University · Sept 2026

• Independentcs.AI

  Compiling agent skills into state machines improves reliable task execution

  Sept 2026

• Top Universitycs.AIcode

  Bandit-guided skill evolution cuts LLM agent optimization costs

  The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Shenzhen, Tianjin University · Sept 2026

• Chinese Techcs.AI

  Adam-inspired updates make agent skill evolution steadier and more efficient

  Renmin University of China, Tencent · Sept 2026

• Industrycs.AI

  Distilled repository skills improve agents conducting machine-learning research

  Beijing Academy of Artificial Intelligence, University of Science and Technology of China · Sept 2026

• Top Universitycs.AI

  Selecting complementary LLM skills improves success while reducing context use

  Tsinghua University · Aug 2026

• Chinese Techcs.CL

  Self-play with evolving skills boosts LLM benchmarks

  Alibaba, The Chinese University of Hong Kong · July 2026

• Big Techcs.AI

  Skill evolution improves agent performance in image generation workflows

  University of Pennsylvania, Nvidia · July 2026

• Top Universitycs.RO

  Visual action rehearsal helps language models control robot manipulation

  HKUST(GZ), CUHK · Sept 2026

• Industrycs.LGcode

  Reusing agent trajectories cuts token use on repeated tool tasks

  China Telecom Cloud · Sept 2026

• Top Universitycs.AI

  Treating memory management as a trainable cognitive skill boosts LLM performance 2x–4x in long-horizon tasks

  Stanford University · July 2026

• Chinese Techcs.CV

  Unified visual-generation agentic model outperforms larger closed-source models

  Tencent Hunyuan, Hong Kong University of Science and Technology · Mar 2026

• Independentcs.AI

  Closed-loop development improves mobile agents across planning and tool use

  Sept 2026

• Top Universitycs.AI

  Attribution-guided skill graphs improve targeted repairs for frozen language models

  National Key Laboratory for Novel Software Technology, Nanjing University · Sept 2026

• Industrycs.AIcode

  Memory lets traffic-simulation agents build reusable skills without retraining

  Jilin University · Sept 2026

• Chinese Techcs.AI

  Checkpoint testing reveals hidden weaknesses in self-evolving agent memories

  Zhejiang University, Alibaba Group · Sept 2026

• Chinese Techcs.CLcode

  Self-retiring distillation improves reinforcement learning for multi-turn agents

  Zhejiang University, Alibaba Group · Sept 2026

• Top Universitycs.LGcode

  Graph-structured skills improve LLM agents through evolutionary optimization

  City University of Hong Kong, National University of Singapore · Sept 2026

• Independentcs.AI

  TROVE edits agent workflows only when runtime evidence demands it

  Sept 2026

• Big Techcs.AI

  Persistent Wikis Help AI Agents Build Better Transferable Skills

  Google Research, Virginia Tech · Aug 2026

• Chinese Techcs.AI

  Process-level tests expose distinct mathematical agent capabilities in LLMs

  Sun Yat-sen University, Tencent Youtu Lab · Aug 2026

• Independentcs.AI

  DSA orchestrates evidence-aware stock research across six regional markets

  Aug 2026

• Big Techcs.AI

  Post-training can replace prompt-time schema injection for enterprise coding agents

  Amazon Advertising Foundations, Amazon Web Services Agentic AI · June 2026

• Big Techcs.CV

  Agent framework auto-tunes video diffusion for 2x speedup

  NVIDIA Research · June 2026

• Top Universitycs.AI

  Evolved agent harnesses lift enterprise performance without retraining models

  ServiceNow, Mila · Aug 2026

• AI Startupcs.CV

  Multi-agent orchestration generates 3D scenes from single images

  Nanyang Technological University, University of Oxford · June 2026

• Big Techcs.AI

  Self-supervised method improves agent harnesses using past trajectories

  City University of Hong Kong, Microsoft Research Asia · June 2026

• Top Universitycs.AIcode

  Re-evaluation shows harness evolution for agents may not outperform simple test-time scaling

  Allen Institute for AI, University of Washington · July 2026