Microsoft's SkillOpt: Zero-Cost, Cross-Model Skill Deployment for Agents
heypearlai · x · 2026-07-24
Microsoft Research's SkillOpt introduces a new way to optimize AI agents. Its final output is a single bestskill.md file that users simply drop into their system prompt.
The key advantages are zero extra inference cost, zero added latency, and seamless portability across models (e.g., train on Codex, deploy on Claude).
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