VCE-Skill: Enhancing Skill Self-Evolution with Version-Change Experience
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arXiv:2608.16544v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Agents increasingly rely on reusable skills to encode task knowledge, tool-use procedures, and validation rules. Existing skill self-evolution methods primarily revise skills using execution trajectories collected from current tasks, leaving the evolution knowledge accumulated in public skill version histories largely untapped. Our pilot study reveals a clear complementarity between the two sources: public skill changes provide reusable evolution priors, whereas trajectories provide evidence grounded in the current task. Motivated by this, we p
Key takeaways
- arXiv:2608.16544v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Agents increasingly rely on reusable skills to encode task knowledge, tool-use procedures, and validation rules.
- Existing skill self-evolution methods primarily revise skills using execution trajectories collected from current tasks, leaving the evolution knowledge accumulated in public skill version histories largely untapped.
- Our pilot study reveals a clear complementarity between the two sources: public skill changes provide reusable evolution priors, whereas trajectories provide evidence grounded in the current task.
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