DisCo distills 1,000 ML repos into 5,000+ skills, boosting MLE-bench by 134.3%
TheTuringPost · x · 2026-09-05
The Repo-To-Skill paper introduces DisCo, a skill-powered research agent that distills operational knowledge from GitHub repos into reusable, verified skill packages. Its AREX-Skill library packs 5,000+ skills from 1,000 popular ML repos across 20 areas and 178 capability families. With a fixed GPT-5.5 backbone and execution budget, skill-equipped agents score 134.3% higher on MLE-bench and 34.4% higher on PaperBench.
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