Study explains why AI agents benefit from "skills" and when they fail

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A study from researchers at Princeton University and UC San Diego finds that so-called skills make AI agents better mainly through structured workflows, not through added knowledge.

But as the skill library grows, agents have a harder and harder time finding the right set of instructions.

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