Agents Learn While You Sleep: SkillOpt's Offline Self-Correction
heypearlai · x · 2026-07-24
Microsoft's SkillOpt-Sleep runs automated loops as nightly background jobs. It allows agents to learn from their daily failures and self-correct while the developer is asleep.
The process is fully offline and incurs no extra cost at inference. This mechanism is seen as how prompt engineering should have worked all along.
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