Paper Citation Record · LEDGER

When Self-Evolution Backfires: Pre-Commit Gating against Skill Contamination in LLM Agents

As of 20 August 2026, this Paper Citation Record lists 17 of 17 outbound references and 0 inbound Pith citation observations for arXiv:2608.05810.

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measured 17 of 17 reference resolution

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17 of 17 outbound references displayed

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Outbound references

Observation 9ad517b6-bfb9-418d-b382-5b118be7ddcf · outbound

This paper cites SearchArt: Training Long-Horizon Search Agent with Scalable Synthetic and Verified Task.

When Self-Evolution Backfires: Pre-Commit Gating against Skill Contamination in LLM Agents SearchArt: Training Long-Horizon Search Agent with Scalable Synthetic and Verified Task

Reference 4

Resolution: verified exact; local_arxiv, observed 2026-08-07T23:10:39.134765Z

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Observation ba537a68-8e11-4d5c-861a-cceeb33b97be · outbound

This paper cites Terminal-Bench: Benchmarking Agents on Hard, Realistic Tasks in Command Line Interfaces.

When Self-Evolution Backfires: Pre-Commit Gating against Skill Contamination in LLM Agents Terminal-Bench: Benchmarking Agents on Hard, Realistic Tasks in Command Line Interfaces

Reference 5

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Observation 72d89b2b-3374-4314-afd6-f4f73c77ef62 · outbound

This paper cites SkillOps: Managing LLM Agent Skill Libraries as Self-Maintaining Software Ecosystems.

When Self-Evolution Backfires: Pre-Commit Gating against Skill Contamination in LLM Agents SkillOps: Managing LLM Agent Skill Libraries as Self-Maintaining Software Ecosystems

Reference 7

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Observation 999a5744-8d29-40d0-afdc-b722e29ca0f2 · outbound

This paper cites Schick, T.; Dwivedi-Yu, J.; Dessì, R.; Raileanu, R.; Lomeli, M.;Hambro,E.;Zettlemoyer,L.;Cancedda,N.;andScialom, T.2023.

When Self-Evolution Backfires: Pre-Commit Gating against Skill Contamination in LLM Agents Schick, T.; Dwivedi-Yu, J.; Dessì, R.; Raileanu, R.; Lomeli, M.;Hambro,E.;Zettlemoyer,L.;Cancedda,N.;andScialom, T.2023

Reference 8

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Observation c744167e-26ee-44e0-9413-cb5d0730f8d3 · outbound

This paper cites Voyager: An Open-Ended Embodied Agent with Large Language Models.

When Self-Evolution Backfires: Pre-Commit Gating against Skill Contamination in LLM Agents Voyager: An Open-Ended Embodied Agent with Large Language Models

Reference 10

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Observation a05401d0-7e55-4a3b-bdb8-d239ab8fb842 · outbound

This paper cites Agent Workflow Memory.

When Self-Evolution Backfires: Pre-Commit Gating against Skill Contamination in LLM Agents Agent Workflow Memory

Reference 11

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Observation 33e5d1a3-3696-41af-824f-90d3d1b26b02 · outbound

This paper cites arXiv preprint arXiv:2603.17187.

When Self-Evolution Backfires: Pre-Commit Gating against Skill Contamination in LLM Agents arXiv preprint arXiv:2603.17187

Reference 13

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Observation 5d9bcc31-296c-484d-aefa-c05e2d2e7a4f · outbound

This paper cites RouteGuard: Internal-Signal Detection of Skill Poisoning in LLM Agents.

When Self-Evolution Backfires: Pre-Commit Gating against Skill Contamination in LLM Agents RouteGuard: Internal-Signal Detection of Skill Poisoning in LLM Agents

Reference 14

Resolution: metadata mismatch; local_arxiv, observed 2026-08-07T23:10:38.815106Z

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Observation 41b43499-56f9-46e7-be4a-ecfadf973250 · outbound

This paper cites arXiv preprint arXiv:2606.19348.

When Self-Evolution Backfires: Pre-Commit Gating against Skill Contamination in LLM Agents arXiv preprint arXiv:2606.19348

Reference 15

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Observation 5bfdfe30-f42a-44c5-af3a-edc5ab6539d7 · outbound

This paper cites Agentic Context Engineering: Evolving Contexts for Self-Improving Language Models.

When Self-Evolution Backfires: Pre-Commit Gating against Skill Contamination in LLM Agents Agentic Context Engineering: Evolving Contexts for Self-Improving Language Models

Reference 17

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Observation 8fbb0974-4860-484c-97d6-116238759481 · outbound

This paper cites Submodular meets Spectral: Greedy Algorithms for Subset Selection, Sparse Approximation and Dictionary Selection.

When Self-Evolution Backfires: Pre-Commit Gating against Skill Contamination in LLM Agents Submodular meets Spectral: Greedy Algorithms for Subset Selection, Sparse Approximation and Dictionary Selection

Reference 2011

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Observation 478b513b-cc6c-41ed-b953-fdc17d707e4f · outbound

This paper cites Lazier Than Lazy Greedy.

When Self-Evolution Backfires: Pre-Commit Gating against Skill Contamination in LLM Agents Lazier Than Lazy Greedy

Reference 2014

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Observation 1fff28b5-9e51-46c3-9a60-b5146c9ddf92 · outbound

This paper cites InNeurIPS 2022 Foundation Models for Decision Making Workshop.

When Self-Evolution Backfires: Pre-Commit Gating against Skill Contamination in LLM Agents InNeurIPS 2022 Foundation Models for Decision Making Workshop

Reference 2022

Resolution: verified fuzzy; raw_fallback, observed 2026-08-07T23:10:39.176328Z

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Observation ebb4ad37-6d17-49e2-8cb3-3f91a9fd32ba · outbound

This paper cites Reinforced Self-Training (ReST) for Language Modeling.

When Self-Evolution Backfires: Pre-Commit Gating against Skill Contamination in LLM Agents Reinforced Self-Training (ReST) for Language Modeling

Reference 2023

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Observation c0f4db71-e4d3-4f47-86ba-bcc9ae9f1964 · outbound

This paper cites A Survey on Self-Evolution of Large Language Models.

When Self-Evolution Backfires: Pre-Commit Gating against Skill Contamination in LLM Agents A Survey on Self-Evolution of Large Language Models

Reference 2024

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Observation 6a205536-9b54-4801-bae7-b4dee11f77e0 · outbound

This paper cites EvolveR: Self-Evolving LLM Agents through an Experience-Driven Lifecycle.

When Self-Evolution Backfires: Pre-Commit Gating against Skill Contamination in LLM Agents EvolveR: Self-Evolving LLM Agents through an Experience-Driven Lifecycle

Reference 2025

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Observation 0d249c83-2173-4533-9f0d-382d3d0117c1 · outbound

This paper cites Agentic Harness Engineering: Observability-Driven Automatic Evolution of Coding-Agent Harnesses.

When Self-Evolution Backfires: Pre-Commit Gating against Skill Contamination in LLM Agents Agentic Harness Engineering: Observability-Driven Automatic Evolution of Coding-Agent Harnesses

Reference 2026

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