Harnessing Agent Skills: Architectural Patterns and a Reference Architecture for Skill-Mediated LLM Agents

arXiv:2606.20631v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Agent skills externalise reusable agent-facing behavioural knowledge and guidance as persistent artefacts that can be discovered, activated, and interpreted by LLM agents. Although a skill artefact is static at rest, its architectural responsibilities arise in use, when the artefact is selected for a run, bound to context and authority constraints, interpreted by a stochastic agent, and recorded as run evidence. We call this run-specific relation s...