# SkillOpt: Teaching Agents to Improve Their Own Instructions

> SkillOpt treats agent skills as trainable external documents, using a separate optimizer model to iteratively refine them via bounded add/delete/replace edits. On GPT-5.5, it delivers +23.5 points on average across six benchmarks - and optimized skills transfer across models and harnesses without retraining.

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Edition: Week 18 · June 2026
Tags: Agents, Optimization, LLMs
Reading time: 8 min read

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