self-evolving agents
2 published articles
AI Agents4 min read
AI Research
Stop copy-pasting skills: SkillZip's evaluation-free fix for bloated agents
Self-evolving agents append fixes until the same rule appears across several branches. SkillZip compresses their skills without evaluation rollouts, by finding the shortest faithful structural explanation. One-shot and Zip-on-Write modes, and what the abstract leaves unproven.
2026-08-15
AI Agents4 min read
AI Agents
When agent skills backfire, SkillProx prunes them like gradient descent
Skills were supposed to make agents smarter, but every fix they accumulate can make them dumber. SkillProx runs a proximal-gradient-inspired forward-backward loop that diagnoses, rolls back, and deletes. Result: a 3.0 point average accuracy gain over the strongest gradient-based baseline.
2026-08-14