MIND-Skill: Quality-Guaranteed Skill Generation via Multi-Agent Induction and Deduction
On the map: LLM agents and tool use → Agent skill learning and evolution
Abstract (arXiv)
Large language model (LLM) powered AI agents have emerged as a promising paradigm for autonomous problem-solving, yet they continue to struggle with complex, multi-step real-world tasks that demand domain-specific procedural knowledge. Reusable agent skills, which encapsulate successful problem-solving strategies, offer a natural remedy by enabling agents to build on prior experience. However, curating such skills has largely remained a manual endeavor, requiring human experts to distill rich domain knowledge into actionable guidelines. In this work, we present Multi-agent INduction and Deduction for Skills (MIND-Skill), a framework that automatically induces generalizable skills from successful trajectories with robust quality guarantees. MIND-Skill consists of an induction agent which is tasked to abstract reusable skills from successful trajectories, and a deduction agent which aims to reconstruct trajectories by following the induced skills. To guarantee the quality of the generated skills, we introduce a reconstruction loss that compares input and reconstructed trajectories, an outcome loss that enforces the correctness of the reconstructed trajectories, and a rubric loss that assesses the documentation quality and regularizes the abstraction level of the generated skills according to predefined criteria. These textual losses are jointly optimized with TextGrad, and the resulting skills are evaluated on held-out tasks unseen during optimization. Experiments on AppWorld and BFCL-v3 show that MIND-Skill consistently outperforms concurrent skill generation methods.
Key facts. Cited by 2 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 21 of its 31 references that are in the map. First posted on arXiv 9 May 2026.
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- 2026Trace2Skill: Distill Trajectory-Local Lessons into Transferable Agent Skills26 Mar
- 2026EvoSkill: Automated Skill Discovery for Multi-Agent Systems3 Mar
- 2026Organizing, Orchestrating, and Benchmarking Agent Skills at Ecosystem Scale2 Mar
- 2026SoK: Agentic Skills -- Beyond Tool Use in LLM Agents24 Feb
- 2026SkillsBench: Benchmarking How Well Agent Skills Work Across Diverse Tasks13 Feb
- 2026Agent Skills for Large Language Models: Architecture, Acquisition, Security, and the Path Forward12 Feb
- 2026SkillRL: Evolving Agents via Recursive Skill-Augmented Reinforcement Learning9 Feb
- 2025Reinforcement Learning for Self-Improving Agent with Skill Library18 Dec
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