Unifying Dynamic Tool Creation and Cross-Task Experience Sharing through Cognitive Memory Architecture
On the map: LLM agents and tool use → Agent memory systems
Abstract (arXiv)
Large Language Model agents face fundamental challenges in adapting to novel tasks due to limitations in tool availability and experience reuse. Existing approaches either rely on predefined tools with limited coverage or build tools from scratch without leveraging past experiences, leading to inefficient exploration and suboptimal performance. We introduce SMITH (Shared Memory Integrated Tool Hub), a unified cognitive architecture that seamlessly integrates dynamic tool creation with cross-task experience sharing through hierarchical memory organization. SMITH organizes agent memory into procedural, semantic, and episodic components, enabling systematic capability expansion while preserving successful execution patterns. Our approach formalizes tool creation as iterative code generation within controlled sandbox environments and experience sharing through episodic memory retrieval with semantic similarity matching. We further propose a curriculum learning strategy based on agent-ensemble difficulty re-estimation. Extensive experiments on the GAIA benchmark demonstrate SMITH's effectiveness, achieving 81.8% Pass@1 accuracy and outperforming state-of-the-art baselines including Alita (75.2%) and Memento (70.9%). Our work establishes a foundation for building truly adaptive agents that continuously evolve their capabilities through principled integration of tool creation and experience accumulation.
Key facts. Cited by 4 papers in the map (data through 13 Oct 2026). Placed in Agent memory systems, one of 16 directions in LLM agents and tool use. Builds on 26 of its 33 references that are in the map. First posted on arXiv 12 Dec 2025.
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26 of 33 references.
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- 2025Memento: Fine-tuning LLM Agents without Fine-tuning LLMs22 Aug
- 2025Mem0: Building Production-Ready AI Agents with Scalable Long-Term Memory28 Apr
Other references · 24
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Citing papers per year: 2026: 4.
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- 2026SkillsVote: Lifecycle Governance of Agent Skills from Collection, Recommendation to Evolution18 May 2026
- 2026A Survey of Agent Memory in the Second Half: Towards Self-Evolving and Long-Horizon Agents14 Jan 2026
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