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Organizing, Orchestrating, and Benchmarking Agent Skills at Ecosystem Scale

arXiv 2603.02176 ↗First posted 2 Mar 2026cs.CLcited by 65

On the map: LLM agents and tool use → Agent skill learning and evolution

Abstract (arXiv)

The rapid proliferation of Claude agent skills has raised the central question of how to effectively leverage, manage, and scale the agent skill ecosystem. In this paper, we propose AgentSkillOS, the first principled framework for skill selection, orchestration, and ecosystem-level management. AgentSkillOS comprises two stages: (i) Manage Skills, which organizes skills into a capability tree via node-level recursive categorization for efficient discovery; and (ii) Solve Tasks, which retrieves, orchestrates, and executes multiple skills through DAG-based pipelines. To evaluate the agent's ability to invoke skills, we construct a benchmark of 30 artifact-rich tasks across five categories: data computation, document creation, motion video, visual design, and web interaction. We assess the quality of task outputs using LLM-based pairwise evaluation, and the results are aggregated via a Bradley-Terry model to produce unified quality scores. Experiments across three skill ecosystem scales (200 to 200K skills) show that tree-based retrieval effectively approximates oracle skill selection, and that DAG-based orchestration substantially outperforms native flat invocation even when given the identical skill set. Our findings confirm that structured composition is the key to unlocking skill potential. Our GitHub repository is available at:https://github.com/ynulihao/AgentSkillOS.

Key facts. Cited by 65 papers in the map (data through 7 Oct 2026). Placed in Agent skill learning and evolution, one of 16 directions in LLM agents and tool use. Builds on 25 of its 27 references that are in the map. First posted on arXiv 2 Mar 2026.

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  1. 2026SkillsBench: Benchmarking How Well Agent Skills Work Across Diverse Tasks13 Feb
  2. 2026Agent Skills for Large Language Models: Architecture, Acquisition, Security, and the Path Forward12 Feb
  3. 2026Agent Skills: A Data-Driven Analysis of Claude Skills for Extending Large Language Model Functionality8 Feb

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  1. 2026Trace2Skill: Distill Trajectory-Local Lessons into Transferable Agent Skillscited by 161
  2. 2026SKILL0: In-Context Agentic Reinforcement Learning for Skill Internalizationcited by 82
  3. 2026Externalization in LLM Agents: A Unified Review of Memory, Skills, Protocols and Harness Engineeringcited by 68
  4. 2026SkillRouter: Skill Routing for LLM Agents at Scalecited by 57
  5. 2026Natural-Language Agent Harnessescited by 54
  6. 2026Graph-of-Skills: Dependency-Aware Structural Retrieval for Massive Agent Skillscited by 53
  7. 2026SkillRet: A Large-Scale Benchmark for Skill Retrieval in LLM Agentscited by 37
  8. 2026Skill1: Unified Evolution of Skill-Augmented Agents via Reinforcement Learningcited by 28
  9. 2026GraSP: Graph-Structured Skill Compositions for LLM Agentscited by 25
  10. 2026SkillAttack: Automated Red Teaming of Agent Skills through Attack Path Refinementcited by 24
  11. 2026From Context to Skills: Can Language Models Learn from Context Skillfully?cited by 19
  12. 2026SkillsVote: Lifecycle Governance of Agent Skills from Collection, Recommendation to Evolutioncited by 18
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  1. 2026From Raw Experience to Skill Consumption: A Systematic Study of Model-Generated Agent Skillscited by 18
  2. 2026A Comprehensive Survey on Agent Skills: Taxonomy, Techniques, and Applicationscited by 17
  3. 2026SkillGenBench: Benchmarking Skill Generation Pipelines for LLM Agentscited by 17
  4. 2026Toward Scalable Terminal Task Synthesis via Skill Graphscited by 16
  5. 2026Skill-R1: Agent Skill Evolution via Reinforcement Learningcited by 12
  6. 2026SkillEvolver: Skill Learning as a Meta-Skillcited by 12
  7. 2026JIT-Agent: Scaling Harness Intelligence via Just-in-Time Harness Evolutioncited by 10
  8. 2026HarmfulSkillBench: How Do Harmful Skills Weaponize Your Agents?cited by 9
  9. 2026Group of Skills: Group-Structured Skill Retrieval for Agent Skill Librariescited by 9
  10. 2026SkillRAE: Agent Skill-Based Context Compilation for Retrieval-Augmented Executioncited by 8
  11. 2026ABSTRAL: Automatic Design of Multi-Agent Systems Through Iterative Refinement and Topology Optimizationcited by 6
  12. 2026SKILLC: Learning Autonomous Skill Internalization in LLM Agents via Contrastive Credit Assignmentcited by 6
  13. 2026Skill Is Not Document: Query-Conditioned Compatibility for LLM Agent Skill Routingcited by 6
  14. 2026Agent Skill Evaluation and Evolution: Frameworks and Benchmarkscited by 6
  15. 2026Dynamic Agent Skills: A Lifecycle Survey and Taxonomy of Evolving Skill Librariescited by 6
  16. 2026Skill-Use: Can LLMs Actually Use Skills in Agentic Harnesses?cited by 6
  17. 2026Skill0.5: Joint Skill Internalization and Utilization for Out-of-Distribution Generalization in Agentic Reinforcement Learningcited by 5
  18. 2026Seeing Is Not Screening: Multimodal Hidden Instruction Attacks on Agent Skill Scannerscited by 5
  19. 2026Task Decomposition-Guided Reranking for Adaptive Agent Skill Retrievalcited by 4
  20. 2026Skill-RM: Unifying Heterogeneous Evaluation Criteria via Agent Skillcited by 3
  21. 2026S1-DeepResearch: Beyond Search, Toward Real-World Long-Horizon Research Agentscited by 3
  22. 2026Bilevel Optimization of Agent Skills via Monte Carlo Tree Searchcited by 2
  23. 2026MIND-Skill: Quality-Guaranteed Skill Generation via Multi-Agent Induction and Deductioncited by 2
  24. 2026Unsupervised Skill Discovery for Agentic Data Analysiscited by 2
  25. 2026Hierarchical Experimentalist Agentscited by 2
  26. 2026SkillReason: Reasoning-Enhanced Agent Skill Retrieval for Implicit User Requestscited by 2
  27. 2026Optimal Skill Selection for LLM Agents with Provable Bicriteria Guaranteescited by 2
  28. 2026Skill-CMIB: Multimodal Agent Skill for Consistent Action via Conditional Multimodal Information Bottleneckcited by 1
  29. 2026Workflow Closure Is Not Scientific Closure in Auto-Research Systemscited by 1
  30. 2026Harnessing Agent Skills: Architectural Patterns and a Reference Architecture for Skill-Mediated LLM Agentscited by 1
  31. 2026Inside the Skill Market: From Software Engineering Activities to Reusable Agent Skillscited by 1
  32. 2026HiSkill: Empowering LLM Agents with Hierarchical Skill Graphscited by 1
  33. 2026Rethinking Self-Evolution: A Constrained Exploration-Exploitation Process for Mitigating Skill Overfittingcited by 1
  34. 2026SkillTrace: Traversing a Query-Skill Graph for Composable LLM Agentscited by 1
  35. 2026SkillZip: Contract-Preserving Graph Compression for Scalable Agent Skill Librariescited by 1
  36. 2026Grounded Checklist Partial Credit for Agent Skill Trajectoriescited by 1
  37. 2026SearchSkill: Teaching LLMs to Use Search Tools with Evolving Skill Bankscited by 0
  38. 2026Skill-3D: Evolving Scene-Aware Skills for Agentic 3D Spatial Reasoningcited by 0

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