What happened: Report: Progressive Disclosure of Agent Skills

Workday researchers studied progressive disclosure of LLM agent skills, finding it improves skill retrieval quality but slightly increases latency.

Why it matters: Report: Progressive Disclosure of Agent Skills

Matters for engineers building LLM agents with large skill libraries who need to balance operational costs against retrieval performance and response time.

Watch out: Report: Progressive Disclosure of Agent Skills

The latency degradation, though marginal, may become significant at scale or in latency-sensitive applications. Real-world impact depends on specific deployment constraints.

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Report: Progressive Disclosure of Agent Skills

arXiv cs.AI · Published September 28, 2026 · 3 min read

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What happened: Workday researchers studied progressive disclosure of LLM agent skills, finding it improves skill retrieval quality but slightly increases latency.
Why it matters: Matters for engineers building LLM agents with large skill libraries who need to balance operational costs against retrieval performance and response time.
Watch out: The latency degradation, though marginal, may become significant at scale or in latency-sensitive applications. Real-world impact depends on specific deployment constraints.

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