Agent Skills Survey: How Process Knowledge Becomes Technical Debt

The recent arXiv survey on Agent Skills maps the full lifecycle of skills—representation, acquisition, retrieval, and evolution—and warns that unchecked growth can turn a valuable process asset into technical debt, urging teams to enforce admission quality, robust routing, versioning, testing, and retirement mechanisms.

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Agent Skills Survey: How Process Knowledge Becomes Technical Debt

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Apr 24, 2026 · Artificial Intelligence

How Hermes Agents Self‑Evolve: What Should Remain After a Task?

The article examines Hermes Agent’s three‑layer memory system—facts, session retrieval, and process assets—detailing how Skills are created, stored, patched, and secured at runtime, and argues that reliable self‑evolution requires disciplined versioning, evaluation, and access controls rather than unchecked automatic skill generation.

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How Hermes Agents Self‑Evolve: What Should Remain After a Task?