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Agent Skills Can Be Harmful: An Empirical Study of Skill-Induced Failures in LLM Agents

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This paper cites SkillsBench: Benchmarking How Well Agent Skills Work Across Diverse Tasks.

Agent Skills Can Be Harmful: An Empirical Study of Skill-Induced Failures in LLM Agents SkillsBench: Benchmarking How Well Agent Skills Work Across Diverse Tasks

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Agent Skills Can Be Harmful: An Empirical Study of Skill-Induced Failures in LLM Agents Swe-skills- bench: Do agent skills actually help in real-world software engineering?

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Agent Skills Can Be Harmful: An Empirical Study of Skill-Induced Failures in LLM Agents Lost in the middle: How language models use long contexts,

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Agent Skills Can Be Harmful: An Empirical Study of Skill-Induced Failures in LLM Agents Large language models can be easily distracted by irrelevant context,

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Agent Skills Can Be Harmful: An Empirical Study of Skill-Induced Failures in LLM Agents Quantifying language models’ sensitivity to spurious features in prompt design or: How i learned to start worrying about prompt formatting,

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This paper cites More doc- uments, same length: Isolating the challenge of multiple documents in rag,.

Agent Skills Can Be Harmful: An Empirical Study of Skill-Induced Failures in LLM Agents More doc- uments, same length: Isolating the challenge of multiple documents in rag,

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This paper cites Differential testing for software,.

Agent Skills Can Be Harmful: An Empirical Study of Skill-Induced Failures in LLM Agents Differential testing for software,

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Agent Skills Can Be Harmful: An Empirical Study of Skill-Induced Failures in LLM Agents Equipping agents for the real world with agent skills,

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Agent Skills Can Be Harmful: An Empirical Study of Skill-Induced Failures in LLM Agents OpenCode: The open source coding agent,

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Agent Skills Can Be Harmful: An Empirical Study of Skill-Induced Failures in LLM Agents Introducing claude opus 4.6,

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Agent Skills Can Be Harmful: An Empirical Study of Skill-Induced Failures in LLM Agents Introducing gpt-5.5,

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Agent Skills Can Be Harmful: An Empirical Study of Skill-Induced Failures in LLM Agents Ensemble methods in machine learning,

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Agent Skills Can Be Harmful: An Empirical Study of Skill-Induced Failures in LLM Agents Self-Consistency Improves Chain of Thought Reasoning in Language Models

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

Agent Skills Can Be Harmful: An Empirical Study of Skill-Induced Failures in LLM Agents Voyager: An Open-Ended Embodied Agent with Large Language Models

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This paper cites Executable code actions elicit better llm agents,.

Agent Skills Can Be Harmful: An Empirical Study of Skill-Induced Failures in LLM Agents Executable code actions elicit better llm agents,

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Agent Skills Can Be Harmful: An Empirical Study of Skill-Induced Failures in LLM Agents Gpt4tools: Teaching large language model to use tools via self-instruction,

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Agent Skills Can Be Harmful: An Empirical Study of Skill-Induced Failures in LLM Agents ReAct: Synergizing Reasoning and Acting in Language Models

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This paper cites Same task, more tokens: the impact of input length on the reasoning performance of large language models,.

Agent Skills Can Be Harmful: An Empirical Study of Skill-Induced Failures in LLM Agents Same task, more tokens: the impact of input length on the reasoning performance of large language models,

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Agent Skills Can Be Harmful: An Empirical Study of Skill-Induced Failures in LLM Agents Why do multi-agent llm systems fail?

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Agent Skills Can Be Harmful: An Empirical Study of Skill-Induced Failures in LLM Agents Agentless: Demystifying LLM-based Software Engineering Agents

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Agent Skills Can Be Harmful: An Empirical Study of Skill-Induced Failures in LLM Agents Swe-agent: Agent-computer interfaces enable automated software engineering,

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Agent Skills Can Be Harmful: An Empirical Study of Skill-Induced Failures in LLM Agents Swe-bench: Can language models resolve real-world github issues?

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Agent Skills Can Be Harmful: An Empirical Study of Skill-Induced Failures in LLM Agents OpenHands: An Open Platform for AI Software Developers as Generalist Agents

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Agent Skills Can Be Harmful: An Empirical Study of Skill-Induced Failures in LLM Agents Multi-swe-bench: A multilingual benchmark for issue resolving,

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Agent Skills Can Be Harmful: An Empirical Study of Skill-Induced Failures in LLM Agents SWE-Lancer: Can Frontier LLMs Earn $1 Million from Real-World Freelance Software Engineering?

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Agent Skills Can Be Harmful: An Empirical Study of Skill-Induced Failures in LLM Agents Measuring ai ability to complete long software tasks,

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Agent Skills Can Be Harmful: An Empirical Study of Skill-Induced Failures in LLM Agents Understanding and detecting real-world performance bugs,

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Agent Skills Can Be Harmful: An Empirical Study of Skill-Induced Failures in LLM Agents Discovering, reporting, and fixing perfor- mance bugs,

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Agent Skills Can Be Harmful: An Empirical Study of Skill-Induced Failures in LLM Agents Performance issues and optimizations in javascript: an empirical study,

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Agent Skills Can Be Harmful: An Empirical Study of Skill-Induced Failures in LLM Agents Understanding performance problems in deep learning systems,

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Agent Skills Can Be Harmful: An Empirical Study of Skill-Induced Failures in LLM Agents A comprehensive study on deep learning bug characteristics,

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Agent Skills Can Be Harmful: An Empirical Study of Skill-Induced Failures in LLM Agents Taxonomy of real faults in deep learning systems,

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Agent Skills Can Be Harmful: An Empirical Study of Skill-Induced Failures in LLM Agents An empirical study on tensorflow program bugs,

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Agent Skills Can Be Harmful: An Empirical Study of Skill-Induced Failures in LLM Agents An empirical study on configuration errors in commercial and open source systems,

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Agent Skills Can Be Harmful: An Empirical Study of Skill-Induced Failures in LLM Agents Hey, you have given me too many knobs!: Understanding and dealing with over-designed configuration in system software,

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Agent Skills Can Be Harmful: An Empirical Study of Skill-Induced Failures in LLM Agents An empirical study on performance bugs for highly config- urable software systems,

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