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Dynamic Agent Skills: A Lifecycle Survey and Taxonomy of Evolving Skill Libraries

Large language model agents increasingly store reusable procedures outside the model. These reusable procedures are often called \emph{skills}: they may be code functions, natural-language instructions, SKILL.md packages, workflow graphs, or learned adapters that a future agent can retrieve and invoke. This taxonomy-driven survey asks how such skill libraries change over time. Across a $124$-paper $2023$--$2026$ audit set, we synthesize dynamic skill systems as \emph{lifecycle-managed, verified,

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Published: 11 July 2026
Source: arXiv
Category: Research
Topics: Agents & autonomy · Transparency
Retrieved: 14 July 2026

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ethics.ai (11 July 2026), “Dynamic Agent Skills: A Lifecycle Survey and Taxonomy of Evolving Skill Libraries,” evidence record 53, https://ethics.ai/record/53 (originally published by arXiv).

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