arxivcs.SEcs.AI2026-07-10
Inside the Skill Market: From Software Engineering Activities to Reusable Agent Skills
Jialun Cao, Xinru Yan, Songqiang Chen, Yaojie Lu, Zhongxin Liu, Shing-Chi Cheung
Software engineering (abbrev. SE) has continuously evolved through increasingly powerful forms of reuse, from source code and libraries to components and services. Recent advances in AI agents have introduced a potentially new reusable artifact: skills. Emerging agent skill repos…