ReSkill: Reconciling Skill Creation with Policy Optimization in Agentic RL

• URL: http://arxiv.org/abs/2606.01619v2
• Date: Mon, 08 Jun 2026 06:27:26 GMT
• Title: ReSkill: Reconciling Skill Creation with Policy Optimization in Agentic RL
• Abstract summary: We introduce ReSkill, an RL-in-the-loop skill creation framework that reconciles skill evolution with policy learning.<n>ReSkill exploits the group-wise structure of GRPO to embed three mechanisms with only marginal additional overhead.<n>Across several domains, ReSkill consistently outperforms existing memory and skill-based RL methods.
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• License: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
• Abstract: Agentic reinforcement learning (RL) enables LLM agents to improve continuously from environment rewards, yet the resulting policies do not systematically accumulate reusable strategies that generalize across tasks. Modular skills can provide such reusable strategies, yet existing skill-augmented RL methods decouple skill creation from policy optimization, risking adopting skills that conflict with the evolving policy. Inspired by Anthropic's Skill Creator, we introduce ReSkill, an RL-in-the-loop skill creation framework that reconciles skill evolution with policy learning. ReSkill exploits the group-wise structure of GRPO to naturally embed three mechanisms with only marginal additional overhead: (1) an assertion-driven skill creator that diagnoses failures from past experience and proposes conditional, trigger-based skill revisions; (2) within-group rollout sampling that enables controlled comparison of skill versions, capturing which version best supports the policy's ongoing learning; and (3) Thompson Sampling with adaptive discounting to balance exploration and exploitation in skill version selection as the policy evolves. Across several domains, ReSkill consistently outperforms existing memory and skill-based RL methods, with the largest gains on unseen tasks. Analysis of the skill lifecycle shows skills being automatically created, tested, refined, and pruned as the policy improves, demonstrating reconciled skill-policy co-evolution.

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