Inside the Skill Market: From Software Engineering Activities to Reusable Agent Skills
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 repositories and marketplaces enable developers to package, share, and reuse SE expertise as reusable skills.
- ▪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 repositories and marketplaces enable developers to package, share, and reuse SE expertise as reusable skills.
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Computer Science > Software Engineering arXiv:2607.09065 (cs) [Submitted on 10 Jul 2026] Title:Inside the Skill Market: From Software Engineering Activities to Reusable Agent Skills Authors:Jialun Cao, Xinru Yan, Songqiang Chen, Yaojie Lu, Zhongxin Liu, Shing-Chi Cheung View a PDF of the paper titled Inside the Skill Market: From Software Engineering Activities to Reusable Agent Skills, by Jialun Cao and 5 other authors View PDF HTML (experimental) Abstract: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.
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