Study: Self-generated Agent Skills are useless

Computer Science > Artificial Intelligence arXiv:2602.12670 (cs) [Submitted on 13 Feb 2026] Title:SkillsBench: Benchmarking How Well Agent Skills Work Across Diverse Tasks Authors:Xiangyi Li, Wenbo Chen, Yimin Liu, Shenghan Zheng, Xiaokun Chen, Yifeng He, Yubo Li, Bingran You, Haotian Shen, Jiankai Sun, Shuyi Wang, Qunhong Zeng, Di Wang, Xuandong Zhao, Yuanli Wang, Roey Ben Chaim, Zonglin Di, Yipeng Gao, Junwei He, Yizhuo He, Liqiang Jing, Luyang Kong, Xin Lan, Jiachen Li, Songlin Li, Yijiang Li, Yueqian Lin, Xinyi Liu, Xuanqing Liu, Haoran Lyu, Ze Ma, Bowei Wang, Runhui Wang, Tianyu Wang, Wengao Ye, Yue Zhang, Hanwen Xing, Yiqi Xue, Steven Dillmann, Han-chung Lee View a PDF of the paper titled SkillsBench: Benchmarking How Well Agent Skills Work Across Diverse Tasks, by…

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