Distilling Agent Experience into SKILL.md Beats Memory by 6 Points

A new study shows that distilling an agent's past trajectories into a concise SKILL.md outperforms Workflow Memory by 6 percentage points, explaining why agent skills work by turning messy experience into executable procedures.

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