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May 31, 2026 · Artificial Intelligence

Microsoft’s SkillOpt Turns Agent Skill Docs into Trainable Parameters for Self‑Evolving AI

Microsoft’s newly open‑source SkillOpt framework treats an agent’s skill document as external weights, applying a rollout‑reflect‑edit‑gate training loop with textual learning rates and rejected‑edit buffers, enabling self‑evolving skills that achieve optimal or tied‑optimal results across 52 model‑benchmark‑environment combinations.