Agent Skill Framework: Perspectives on the Potential of Small to Medium Language Models in Industrial Environments
arXiv:2602.16653v4 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Skills are getting increasingly used in recent agentic frameworks, performing robustly with proprietary LLMs. Yet, their effectiveness for small and medium-sized open-source models (270M--80B) remains underexplored, especially under industrial, resource-constrained conditions. As such, we present a large-scale empirical study evaluating the skill paradigm's feasibility across two open-source classification tasks: one insurance-claim task based…