SkillContrast: Difference-Guided Text Selection for Agent Skill Reranking
Quick summary
arXiv:2610.11650v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Similar agent skills can share instructions but differ in their conditions of use. Query-based text selection may retain shared instructions and omit these distinctions. We introduce SkillContrast, a training-free selector that compares retrieved skills and retains their differing text with local context for a pretrained reranker. On 1,235 requests from SameCapRisk-Bench, it yields 54-72 more clean hits (requests that retrieve a helpful skill without its marked risky sibling) than TF-IDF query selection at identical per-candidate input lengths,
Key takeaways
- arXiv:2610.11650v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Similar agent skills can share instructions but differ in their conditions of use.
- Query-based text selection may retain shared instructions and omit these distinctions.
- We introduce SkillContrast, a training-free selector that compares retrieved skills and retains their differing text with local context for a pretrained reranker.
Why it matters
The importance of “SkillContrast: Difference-Guided Text Selection for Agent Skill Reranking” will be measured by what changes in practice. User behavior, access conditions, verifiable performance and responsible-use outcomes are the signals worth following.
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