most citedExternalization in LLM Agents: A Unified Review of Memory, Skills, Protocols and Harness Engineering

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cs.AI2026

LabCompiler: A Framework for Verifiable Human-Machine Laboratory Execution from Imperfect Protocols

Jingyuan Li, Dongzhan Zhou, Minting Pan +10

Closing the loop of AI-driven science requires reliably translating natural-language protocols into executable laboratory workflows despite protocol defects and heterogeneous hardw…

cs.RO2026

Embodied Skill Bench: Benchmarking How Well Agents with Embodied Skills Perform on Physical Tasks

Zhi Han, Zihan Guo, Chenxi Zeng +6

LLM agents increasingly control robots using VLA policies, perception models, and procedural knowledge. These modules are difficult to reuse because their interfaces, embodiment as…

cs.AI2026

MCPDisCo: Seesaw-Mitigated Tuning for MCP-Native Agents

Kounianhua Du, Jianxing Liu, Shuai Shao +3

The Model Context Protocol provides a shared interaction substrate for the agentic web, allowing heterogeneous services to expose capabilities through a standardized interface. Lea…

cs.CL2026

Skill2Query: Exploiting Skill Structure to Generate Pseudo-Queries for Agent Skill Retrieval

Lihui Ding, Zihan Guo, Bingwei Lu +5

Pseudo-query generation can alleviate the supervision bottleneck for agent skill retrieval, but existing document-level approaches typically leave the rich internal relations among…

cs.LG2026

Autoregressive Diffusion World Models for Off-Policy Evaluation of LLM Agents

Kaixuan Liu, Guojun Xiong, Weinan Zhang +1

Evaluating large language model (LLM) agents in multi-turn interactive environments is expensive and risky, as it requires online environment interaction. We propose ADWM (Autoregr…

cs.LG2026

Social Networks of LLM Agents

Kaixuan Liu, Guojun Xiong, Weinan Zhang +1

Large language model (LLM) agents are increasingly deployed in interacting populations, raising the question of what such populations come to believe collectively. Whether a popula…

cs.AI2026

Clarus: Coordinating Autonomous Research Agents toward Web-Scale Scientific Collaboration

Zihan Guo, Zeyi Chen, Zhiyu Chen +15

Existing autonomous research agents can support parts of the research process, but most systems still treat research as either an isolated assistant task or a closed workflow. Ther…

cs.AI2026

SubtleMemory: A Benchmark for Fine-Grained Relational Memory Discrimination in Long-Horizon AI Agents

Wenxuan Wang, Haoyu Sun, Fukuan Hou +4

Persistent AI assistants, such as OpenClaw, accumulate large collections of related memories over long-term interactions. As these memories grow, they may reinforce one another, di…

cs.CL2026

Agent Planning Benchmark: A Diagnostic Framework for Planning Capabilities in LLM Agents

Haoyu Sun, Wenxuan Wang, Mingyang Song +5

Planning is central to LLM agents: before acting, an agent must decompose goals, select tools, reason over constraints, and decide when a task is infeasible. Yet existing agent eva…

cs.CL2026

LatentSkill: From In-Context Textual Skills to In-Weight Latent Skills for LLM Agents

Aofan Yu, Chenyu Zhou, Tianyi Xu +8

Agent systems increasingly use textual skills to encode reusable task procedures, but injecting these skills into the prompt at every step incurs substantial context overhead and e…

cs.SE2026★ 6 cited

Externalization in LLM Agents: A Unified Review of Memory, Skills, Protocols and Harness Engineering

Chenyu Zhou, Huacan Chai, Wenteng Chen +18

Large language model (LLM) agents are increasingly built less by changing model weights than by reorganizing the runtime around them. Capabilities that earlier systems expected the…

cs.MA2026

SW--Bench: Benchmarking Autonomous Software Agent Generation for Agentic Web

Linyao Chen, Bo Huang, Qinlao Zhao +13

The Agentic Web is emerging as a paradigm in which autonomous software agents interact with online resources and with each other to accomplish user goals. However, the capacity of…

cs.AI2026

Holos: A Web-Scale LLM-Based Multi-Agent System for the Agentic Web

Xiaohang Nie, Zihan Guo, Zicai Cui +20

As large language models (LLM)-driven agents transition from isolated task solvers to persistent digital entities, the emergence of the Agentic Web, an ecosystem where heterogeneou…

cs.CR2026

SkillProbe: Security Auditing for Emerging Agent Skill Marketplaces via Multi-Agent Collaboration

Zihan Guo, Zhiyu Chen, Xiaohang Nie +3

With the rapid evolution of Large Language Model (LLM) agent ecosystems, centralized skill marketplaces have emerged as pivotal infrastructure for augmenting agent capabilities. Ho…

cs.NI2026

AWCP: A Workspace Delegation Protocol for Deep-Engagement Collaboration across Remote Agents

Xiaohang Nie, Zihan Guo, Youliang Chen +2

The rapid evolution of Large Language Model (LLM)-based autonomous agents is reshaping the digital landscape toward an emerging Agentic Web, where increasingly specialized agents m…

cs.MA2026

MonoScale: Scaling Multi-Agent System with Monotonic Improvement

Shuai Shao, Yixiang Liu, Bingwei Lu +1

In recent years, LLM-based multi-agent systems (MAS) have advanced rapidly, using a router to decompose tasks and delegate subtasks to specialized agents. A natural way to expand c…

cs.AI2025★ 1 cited

Your Agent May Misevolve: Emergent Risks in Self-evolving LLM Agents

Shuai Shao, Qihan Ren, Chen Qian +8

Advances in Large Language Models (LLMs) have enabled a new class of self-evolving agents that autonomously improve through interaction with the environment, demonstrating strong c…