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SkillOpt: Agent skills as trainable parameters 

June 30, 2026
AI agents often fail because their instructions, or skills, are manually modified with no guarantee of improvement. Learn how SkillOpt turns skill editing into a training process, making agent behavior more reliable without changing model weights.

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    SkillOpt: Agent skills as trainable parameters 

    June 30, 2026

    AI agents often fail because their instructions, or skills, are manually modified with no guarantee of improvement. Learn how SkillOpt turns skill editing into a training process, making agent behavior more reliable without changing model weights.

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