Skill-as-API: Confidential Multi-Agent Coordination for Agentic Software Engineering

arXiv:2609.01677 · cs.CR · Submitted 2026-09-01 · Read on arXiv

cs.CR

Submitted: 2026-09-01

Updated: 2026-09-01

Code: https://github.com/HAOJUN-LIANG/Skill-as-API

License: http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/

Terminology

• Abstraction — 3× in this paper · explained in 1 episode
• Core — 3× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Verification — 3× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Actor — 2× in this paper · explained in 3 episodes
• Agent Skills — 2× in this paper · explained in 1 episode
• Adam — 1× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Benchmark — 1× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Multi-Agent System — 1× in this paper · explained in 6 episodes

Sources

• Agentic Software Engineering: Foundational Pillars and a Research Roadmap
• AgentCrypt: Advancing Privacy and (Secure) Computation in AI Agent Collaboration
• A First Look at the Security Issues in the Model Context Protocol Ecosystem
• Privacy in Action: Towards Realistic Privacy Mitigation and Evaluation for LLM-Powered Agents
• OpenHands: An Open Platform for AI Software Developers as Generalist Agents
• MCPTox: A Benchmark for Tool Poisoning Attack on Real-World MCP Servers
• ARGUS: Defending LLM Agents Against Context-Aware Prompt Injection
• Agent Skills for Large Language Models: Architecture, Acquisition, Security, and the Path Forward

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