SkillPyramid: A Hierarchical Skill Consolidation Framework for Self-Evolving Agents

• URL: http://arxiv.org/abs/2606.03692v1
• Date: Tue, 02 Jun 2026 14:14:27 GMT
• Title: SkillPyramid: A Hierarchical Skill Consolidation Framework for Self-Evolving Agents
• Abstract summary: Recent AI agents can flexibly invoke skills to solve complex tasks, but their long-term improvement is constrained by a lack of systematic skill construction, accumulation, and transfer.<n>We propose SkillPyramid, a skill consolidation framework that reuses existing skill experience for broader task generalization.<n>We show that SkillPyramid substantially increases the average reward by 38.0% and reduces execution steps by 27.7%.
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• License: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
• Abstract: Recent AI agents can flexibly invoke skills to solve complex tasks, but their long-term improvement is fundamentally constrained by a lack of systematic skill construction, accumulation, and transfer. In particular, without a unified framework for skill consolidation, agents tend to redundantly construct similar capabilities across different tasks, are unable to effectively transform experience into reusable assets, and struggle to generalize task-specific skills to novel scenarios. To address this limitation, we propose SkillPyramid, a skill consolidation framework that reuses existing skill experience for broader task generalization. Operating on a hierarchical skill topology, SkillPyramid further introduces a self-evolution mechanism that enables agents to compose, validate, and incorporate new skills during task execution. Experiments on ALFWorld, WebShop, and ScienceWorld across four backbone models show that SkillPyramid substantially increases the average reward by 38.0% and reduces execution steps by 27.7%. Overall, our method transforms a skill collection from a static resource pool into a dynamic evolution system.

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