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FormCraft is a research framework for storing operations an agent or system has acquired as reusable, directly callable capabilities, with a verification step before they enter a persistent library. The paper's main contribution is formal: it defines recursive composition over a uniform capability space and reports reuse experiments across continuous, discrete, propositional, and sequence domains. For AI readers, the practical question is whether this reduces the search cost of reusing learned skills, and the reported results are preliminary and would need to be tested against established library-learning and program-synthesis baselines.
Recursive Formation and First-Class Reuse of Compositional Capabilities
arXiv:2610.19414v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: We introduce FormCraft, a framework for representing acquired operations as first-class capabilities that can be recursively composed, directly invoked, and selectively retained in a persistent library through domain-specific verification. The framework separates capability well-formedness and public callability from later admission to persistent storage while preserving formation provenance and operational identity. We formalize recursive compositional closure over a uniform capability space and show that formed composites can be reused through the same public interface without re-forming their historical derivation. Experiments across continuous, discrete, propositional, and sequence domains demonstrate instance-independent reuse, independent checking, persistent acquisition, and reduced reuse-time search work under first-class exposure.
Abstract:We introduce FormCraft, a framework for representing acquired operations as first-class capabilities that can be recursively composed, directly invoked, and selectively retained in a persistent library through domain-specific verification. The framework separates capability well-formedness and public callability from later admission to persistent storage while preserving formation provenance and operational identity. We formalize recursive compositional closure over a uniform capability space and show that formed composites can be reused through the same public interface without re-forming their historical derivation. Experiments across continuous, discrete, propositional, and sequence domains demonstrate instance-independent reuse, independent checking, persistent acquisition, and reduced reuse-time search work under first-class exposure.
Programming Languages (cs.PL); Artificial Intelligence (cs.AI)
arXiv:2610.19414 [cs.PL]
(or arXiv:2610.19414v1 [cs.PL] for this version)
https://doi.org/10.48550/arXiv.2610.19414 Focus to learn more arXiv-issued DOI via DataCite
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