skillfed

Frontier & other 5 papers

a skillfed research direction

Work that doesn't sit in a single direction yet — the field's unclaimed edges.

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  1. A skill-specific LoRA beats prompting the full SKILL.md by 5.2 points and cuts token cost 6.6%

    2026-06-15 — Skill-to-LoRA (S2L) treats a SKILL.md file as training data, not runtime cargo. Offline, a teacher model reads the full skill document and generates synthetic task-response pairs that demonstrate…

  2. SKIM cuts agent skills to 30-60% of their length for a 1-2 point accuracy hit

    2026-06-10 — SKIM (SKIll coMpression) replaces a reusable agent skill's full instructions with a small set of learned soft tokens , so the skill no longer has to be pasted into every prompt in full. A compressor…

  3. Typed contracts + call templates: 82 vs. 47 ALFWorld wins, −23% tokens per game

    2026-05-27 — Skill-as-Pseudocode (SaP) rewrites markdown skill libraries into typed pseudocode, so agents stop re-deriving schemas and call syntax from prose on every retrieval. The pipeline clusters similar…

  4. Conditioning the perception latent on the text skill card cuts cross-modal redundancy 9x — and gets 2.3x the step-consistency of 5-sample self-consistency at roughly the same latency as 1 sample

    2026-05-08 — Agents built on vision-language models rarely repeat themselves. Ask the same policy to complete the same web task twice and the click sequences drift, even though the underlying reasoning hasn't…

  5. Compiling a skill for its model drops regressions from 15% to 4.5%

    2026-04-03 — Scale first: two public catalogs hold 118,000 agent skills between them — 28,990 on clawhub.ai, 89,280 on skills.sh. Running that catalog against eight LLMs and three harnesses (BareAgent, OpenCode,…

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