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SkillOpt: Agent skills as trainable parameters

AI agents often fail because their instructions, or skills, are manually modified with no guarantee of improvement.

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Microsoft Research
Published
Jun 30, 2026
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1 min read
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Research Blog

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  • AI agents often fail because their instructions, or skills, are manually modified with no guarantee of improvement.
  • Learn how SkillOpt turns skill editing into a training process, making agent behavior more reliable without changing model weights.
  • The post SkillOpt: Agent skills as trainable parameters appeared first on Microsoft Research .

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