SCOPE: Prompt Evolution for Enhancing Agent Effectiveness

Large Language Model (LLM) agents are increasingly deployed in environments that generate massive, dynamic contexts. However, a critical bottleneck remains: while agents have access to this context, their static prompts lack the mechanisms to manage it effectively, leading to recurring Corrective and Enhancement failures. To address this capability gap, we introduce Self-evolving Context Optimization via Prompt Evolution (SCOPE). SCOPE frames context management as an textitonline optimization problem, synthesizing guidelines from execution traces to automatically evolve the agent's prompt. We propose a Dual-Stream mechanism that routes guidelines between tactical memory (immediate error correction) and strategic memory, which is continuously refined through conflict resolution, subsumption pruning, and consolidation. To maximize strategy coverage, Perspective-Driven Exploration evolves multiple parallel prompts guided by distinct optimization perspectives. Experiments on the HLE benchmark show that SCOPE improves task success rates from 14.23% to 38.64% without human intervention. We make our code publicly available at https://github.com/JarvisPei/SCOPE.