WebXSkill: Skill Learning for Autonomous Web Agents

Published
Source
arXiv
Paper number
149
Field
Agents / Web / Skills
arXiv ID
2604.13318

Key points

  • Autonomous web agents struggle with long-horizon, multi-page workflows because they do not effectively retain and reuse procedural knowledge.
  • Existing skill formulations suffer from a grounding gap, where skills are either interpretable but not executable, or executable but opaque to the agent.
  • Prior skill-learning methods often require high acquisition cost or lack context-aware retrieval, which limits scalability and efficiency.
  • WEBXSKILL proposes a new executable skill that combines parameterized action programs with step-level natural-language guidance, which supports both direct execution and agent interpretation.
  • It implements a three-stage pipeline for skill management: extraction from synthetic trajectories, organization into a URL-based skill graph, and deployment through grounded or guided modes.
  • The framework uses LLM-based abstraction for skill generalization and a curation process that includes online deduplication and executability checks to build a robust skill library.

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