Report: Progressive Disclosure of Agent Skills
Workday’s agent-skills report says lazy-loading improved retrieval quality, with only a small latency cost.
The paper looks at LLM-based agents using named procedures, or “skills,” to handle user requests. As those skill libraries grow, the authors say keeping everything in context raises operational cost. Their empirical test finds progressive disclosure, loading skills only when needed, improves skill retrieval while marginally degrading overall latency. ArXiv · AI/CL/LG's note
The paper looks at LLM-based agents using named procedures, or “skills,” to handle user requests. As those skill libraries grow, the authors say keeping everything in context raises operational cost. Their empirical test finds progressive disclosure, loading skills only when needed, improves skill retrieval while marginally degrading overall latency. ArXiv · AI/CL/LG's note
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