@oliviscusAI: MICROSOFT JUST OPEN-SOURCED SELF-EVOLVING AGENT SKILLS. it's called skillopt. skills that improve themselves the same w…
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Microsoft open-sourced SkillOpt, a tool that enables AI agent skills to self-improve by automatically evaluating and rewriting their instructions, outperforming hand-crafted prompts and other optimizers with no model lock-in.
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MICROSOFT JUST OPEN-SOURCED SELF-EVOLVING AGENT SKILLS.
it’s called skillopt.
skills that improve themselves the same way you train an ai model.
no more guessing whether your prompt tweaks helped. a base model runs the task, an optimizer evaluates the output and rewrites the instructions itself.
→ isolates successful paths from failures to find precise improvements → auto-rejects any edit that doesn’t beat your benchmark score → beats hand-crafted prompts and optimizers like textgrad → zero model lock-in, the skill transfers to any model you switch to
100% free. open source.
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