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SkillJuror: Measuring How Agent Skill Organization Changes Runtime Behavior

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SkillJuror: Measuring How Agent Skill Organization Changes Runtime Behavior

arXiv:2606.11543v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Agent Skills augment large language model (LLM) agents with procedural knowledge at inference time, but current benchmarks rarely distinguish what a Skill says from how it is organized. We study this distinction through Progressive Disclosure, where a concise root file points agents to supporting resources on demand, and compare it with a normalized flat baseline. We present SkillJuror, a framework for evaluating Skill writing paradigms through semantically controlled variants, matched multi-trial evaluations, and trajectory evidence while holdin

Why this matters
Why now

The rapid development and deployment of LLM agents necessitate better methods for evaluating their performance and understanding how skill organization impacts their effectiveness.

Why it’s important

Improving the skill organization of AI agents directly translates to more efficient and capable autonomous systems, accelerating their integration into various industries.

What changes

This research provides a framework (SkillJuror) to methodically evaluate different paradigms of agent skill organization, allowing developers to optimize agent design beyond mere skill content.

Winners
  • · AI Agent developers
  • · LLM companies
  • · Autonomous system integrators
  • · Robotics
Losers
  • · Inefficient AI agent development pipelines
  • · Organizations relying on brute-force LLM prompting without structured skill desi
Second-order effects
Direct

More sophisticated and reliable AI agents become deployable across a wider range of tasks.

Second

This improved agent capability drives further automation in white-collar work and complex operational environments.

Third

The enhanced efficiency and reliability of AI agents could significantly accelerate the development of general artificial intelligence by providing better tools for self-improvement and complex problem-solving.

Editorial confidence: 90 / 100 · Structural impact: 60 / 100
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