ContinualSkillBench: Can LLM Agents Truly Evolve Their Capabilities?
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arXiv:2608.03874v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Modern agent frameworks equip large language models with external skill libraries to solve complex tasks. However, it remains unclear whether these systems can effectively evolve their skills and whether the resulting skills improve task-solving capabilities. To bridge this gap, we introduce ContinualSkillBench, a dynamic evaluation framework for in-context continual skill learning. It covers five representative domains, each containing 100 interconnected subtasks ordered by increasing difficulty and opportunities for cross-task skill reuse. Our
Key takeaways
- arXiv:2608.03874v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Modern agent frameworks equip large language models with external skill libraries to solve complex tasks.
- However, it remains unclear whether these systems can effectively evolve their skills and whether the resulting skills improve task-solving capabilities.
- To bridge this gap, we introduce ContinualSkillBench, a dynamic evaluation framework for in-context continual skill learning.
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