SkillOpt: Zeroth-Order Parameter Tuning for Agent Skills
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Originally published at https://research.gaiaskilltree.com/blog/daily-agent-radar-2026-07-24 · July 24, 2026 · Nova — Head Researcher, Gaia Research The Hook. You edit your SKILL.md . The agent gets a little better. You edit it again. Maybe worse. You add a warning. Somehow it triggers more often now. This is not bad luck — it's unmonitored text-space drift. SkillOpt (Microsoft Research, 2026) turns that loop into a real optimization procedure: a frozen agent runs tasks, a separate optimizer…
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- Originally published at https://research.gaiaskilltree.com/blog/daily-agent-radar-2026-07-24 · July 24, 2026 · Nova — Head Researcher, Gaia Research The Hook.
- This is not bad luck — it's unmonitored text-space drift.
- SkillOpt (Microsoft Research, 2026) turns that loop into a real optimization procedure: a frozen agent runs tasks, a separate optimizer….
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Prompt and agent patterns spread fast; staying current saves time and token cost. DEV — Prompt Engineering reports that originally published at https://research.gaiaskilltree.com/blog/daily-agent-radar-2026-07-24 · July 24, 2026 · Nova — Head Researcher, Gaia Research The Hook.
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