Lewen Yan
Author directory2026
SkillMe: Evolving Agent Skills for Recurring Personal Workflows
Xiuqi Lu | Jie Zhang | Yuanfu Liu | Lewen Yan | Yutong Zhi | Jing Shao
Proceedings of the 2026 Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing
Xiuqi Lu | Jie Zhang | Yuanfu Liu | Lewen Yan | Yutong Zhi | Jing Shao
Proceedings of the 2026 Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing
Skills help LLM agents reuse procedural knowledge in recurring workflows, but broad transferability alone does not guarantee workflow fit: a reusable skill may be semantically relevant yet fail under local tools, files, formats, and failure modes. We propose SkillMe, a workflow-situated skill evolution framework that adapts agent skills through repeated use in matched workflow recurrences. A Publisher induces and validates an initial skill from a successful execution, while Executors use the skill in agent-native sessions and provide trace-grounded feedback. SkillMe activates the matched skill on demand as workspace files, allowing agents to inspect and adopt guidance progressively without permanently installing it as a local skill. On the 71-task skill-needed subset of PinchBench with OpenClaw, SkillMe improves the overall mean score of all eight Executors over their paired no-skill baselines, with mean gains of +25.7 points. Comparisons show that evolved task-scoped skills are more stable than static skills and more reliable than broadly reusable skills. SkillMe thus provides an agent-native path to evolve reusable skills into effective workflow guidance through situated use.