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Life sciences · Preprint
arXiv · August 7, 2026
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SkillAligner is a training-free framework for adapting retrieved procedural skills to task-specific execution contexts in language agents. The abstract reports improvements in task performance, reduced skill-induced failure, and lower inference cost across benchmarks, but provides no quantitative results, confidence intervals, or statistical tests, and the work has not undergone peer review.
Empirical comparative evaluation across multiple agent benchmarks. Language agents evaluated on diverse agent benchmarks; specific task domains, model architectures, and benchmark names not detailed in abstract. Intervention: SkillAligner: training-free execution-time skill adaptation framework that performs joint adaptation of retrieved skills to task requirements, execution interface, and skill composition. Compared with: Existing skill-use baselines (not named or specified in abstract).
SkillAligner substantially improves task performance over existing skill-use baselines Framework reduces skill-induced regressions at the instance level Total inference cost is lowered compared to baseline approaches
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General-purpose skills promise reusable procedural knowledge for language agents, yet semantic relevance does not guarantee execution utility: a retrieved skill may encode assumptions that conflict with the current task, execution environment, or other retrieved skills. We formalize this problem as the skill--execution misfit. To address it, we propose SkillAligner, a training-free execution-time skill adaptation framework that treats retrieved skills as adaptable drafts rather than fixed instructions. Before execution, SkillAligner performs a one-time joint adaptation that specializes useful skill fragments to task requirements, aligns their procedural assumptions with the available execution interface, and composes the resulting guidance by resolving dependencies, conflicts, and redundancy across skills. The adapted content is consolidated into a compact execution guide and reused throughout the subsequent trajectory. Extensive experiments across diverse agent benchmarks and model backbones show that SkillAligner substantially improves task performance over existing skill-use baselines, reduces skill-induced regressions at the instance level, and lowers total inference cost.
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