2026

Skills are increasingly used to improve LLM agents on real-world tasks, yet it remains unclear how agents use skills, how skill quality should be evaluated, and how users should choose skills under cost-performance trade-offs. We present OpenSkillEval, an automatic framework for evaluating both skill-augmented agents and skills. OpenSkillEval dynamically constructs test cases from evolving real-world artifacts across five applications: presentation generation, front-end web design, poster generation, data visualization, and report generation. It also curates community skills for controlled comparison under unified settings. Using over 600 generated tasks and 30 open-source skills, we evaluate state-of-the-art models and agent frameworks. Results show that skill availability does not guarantee effective use, skill benefits depend strongly on the model and framework, and many popular skills fail to consistently outperform skill-free agents. These findings highlight the need for dynamic, task-grounded evaluation and offer practical guidance for skill design, selection, and deployment.