CompSkill: Compiling Execution Experience for Skill Retrieval

Abstract:LLM agents increasingly rely on skill documents, yet most retrievers rank them by description alone and ignore what earlier executions revealed, even though a relevant skill can hurt execution. We present CompSkill, which indexes skills with learned 512-d keys and compiles matched same-task comparisons into skill offsets and capped key residuals (KeyOpt), so experience changes which document the executor receives, never its text. Under a logistic outcome model with unknown task difficulty, matched comparisons cancel that difficulty and only discordant ones carry information; on support executions, predictions improve with each discordant task. An experience hypergraph keeps each comparison with its executor and document versions, recalls missed skills and grounds a cited review. Compact keys raise SkillRet NDCG@10 from 64.0 to 70.9 at one eighth of the dimension. With one document, CompSkill completes 256 and 260 of 332 ToolQA tasks with GPT-5.6-luna and DeepSeek-V4.1-Flash, respectively, more than every baseline, and stays on par with the strongest baselines on AppWorld and ALFWorld. On 332 newly generated ToolQA tasks, it completes 256 with GPT-5.6-luna, significantly more than BM25, SkillRet-8B, Tool2Vec and RankGPT; over all 844 ToolQA tasks, it completes 24 more than the strongest baseline. Selection matters beyond relevance: pairing the right guide with a same-database sibling instead of another database's guide costs 8 of 96 tasks. Code, models and support data: this https URL

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Computation and Language (cs.CL)

arXiv:2611.01115 [cs.CL]

(or arXiv:2611.01115v1 [cs.CL] for this version)

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