cs.SE · 2026-08-12 · No. 82

Software Engineering, 2026-08-12.

2 new papers in cs.SE. Titles, authors, abstracts. Links to arXiv. Want this in your inbox every morning? Subscribe →

01 — The papers

2 entries
  1. 01

    GitSkills: A Dataset of Agent Skills on GitHub

    Giuseppe Destefanis, Daniel Graziotin, Matteo Vaccargiu, Marco Ortu

    cs.SE · cs.AI

    An agent skill is a folder containing a SKILL.md file with instructions for a language-model agent, optionally accompanied by scripts and reference files. The agent loads the skill when it judges that a task matches the skill description. Anthropic introduced the format in October 2025 as an open specification. Nine months later, we find that skill files in the millions sit in public GitHub repositories. Skills are unlike the artifacts the SE...

    arxiv.org/abs/2608.10906 · PDF

  2. 02

    Persistent Recursive Worlds Enable Autonomous Software Evolution

    Beichen Huang, Zhenyu Liang, Bowen Zheng, Ran Cheng

    cs.SE · cs.AI · cs.MA · cs.NE

    Complex software systems develop over timescales that exceed the lifespan of any individual coding agent. Most agentic software systems preserve continuity through persistent sessions, memories, managers or shared context. We introduce EvoX Genesis (hereafter, Genesis), which instead makes the software project persistent while allowing local agents to remain finite-lived. Genesis represents software as a persistent recursive world: each local...

    arxiv.org/abs/2608.10450 · PDF

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