Anything2Skill: Compiling External Knowledge into Reusable Skills for Agents

• URL: http://arxiv.org/abs/2606.09316v2
• Date: Tue, 09 Jun 2026 09:39:52 GMT
• Title: Anything2Skill: Compiling External Knowledge into Reusable Skills for Agents
• Abstract summary: Anything2Skill is a taxonomy-guided framework that compiles heterogeneous external knowledge into reusable, retrievable, and executable skills for agents.<n>We show that Anything2Skill combined with RAG achieves 98.85% and 94.10% success rates, respectively.
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• License: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
• Abstract: Retrieval-augmented generation (RAG) enables agents to access external knowledge at inference time, but it primarily retrieves fragmented declarative evidence, leaving agents to repeatedly infer task procedures from passages, manuals, examples, logs, or trajectories. This raises a fundamental question: can skills extracted from external knowledge bases be installed into an agent, enabling it to rapidly approximate domain expertise? In this paper, we propose Anything2Skill, a taxonomy-guided framework that compiles heterogeneous external knowledge into reusable, retrievable, and executable skills for agents. Given a corpus of knowledge records, \textsc{Anything2Skill} first decomposes each record into evidence windows and performs plan-and-expand skill extraction under a skill-tree prior. The extracted candidates are then converted into structured skill contracts that specify invocation conditions, contraindications, action moves, workflow steps, constraints, output specifications, supporting evidence, and confidence scores. To construct a deployable procedural memory, Anything2Skill manages the extracted skills in a persistent SkillBank through taxonomy-aware compilation, registry-level reconciliation, lifecycle tracking, versioned updates, and visible skill-tree projection. At inference time, agents retrieve both task-specific passages from the original knowledge base and relevant procedural skills from the SkillBank, allowing RAG to provide declarative evidence while compiled skills provide reusable procedural guidance. Experiments on qsv and GitHub-CLI show that Anything2Skill combined with RAG achieves 98.85\% and 94.10\% success rates, respectively, substantially outperforming RAG-only agents. These results suggest that compiling latent procedural knowledge into explicit skills is an effective way to extend retrieval-augmented agents from knowledge access toward capability reuse.

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