Progressive Skill Discovery as Access Control for Tool-Using LLM Agents: Structural Governance through Role-Scoped Capability Delivery

arXiv:2609.28693 · cs.AI, cs.CR, cs.MA, cs.SY, eess.SY · Submitted 2026-09-23 · Read on arXiv

cs.AI, cs.CR, cs.MA, cs.SY, eess.SY

Submitted: 2026-09-23

Updated: 2026-09-23

Code: https://github.com/joaomdmoura/crewai

Terminology

• Ablation — 11× in this paper · explained in 1 episode
• Adaptability — 11× in this paper · explained in 1 episode
• Benchmark — 11× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Agent Skills — 5× in this paper · explained in 1 episode
• Large Language Model — 5× in this paper
• Trace — 5× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• LLM judge — 4× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Commentary — 3× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Progressive Disclosure — 3× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Agentic AI — 2× in this paper · explained in 1 episode
• Benchmarking — 2× in this paper · explained in 3 episodes
• Domain Shift — 2× in this paper · explained in 4 episodes
• Failure Modes — 2× in this paper · explained in 3 episodes
• AI Agents — 1× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Analyzer — 1× in this paper · explained in 1 episode
• Core — 1× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Large Language Model (LLM) — 1× in this paper · explained in 3 episodes
• Multi-Agent System — 1× in this paper · explained in 5 episodes
• RAG — 1× in this paper · explained in 3 episodes
• Redundancy — 1× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Robustness — 1× in this paper · explained in 5 episodes

Sources

• Gorilla: Large Language Model Connected with Massive APIs
• RAG-MCP: Mitigating Prompt Bloat in LLM Tool Selection via Retrieval-Augmented Generation
• AutoGen: Enabling Next-Gen LLM Applications via Multi-Agent Conversation
• Agent Skills: A Data-Driven Analysis of Claude Skills for Extending Large Language Model Functionality
• Progent: Securing AI Agents with Privilege Control
• SkillsBench: Benchmarking How Well Agent Skills Work Across Diverse Tasks
• Organizing, Orchestrating, and Benchmarking Agent Skills at Ecosystem Scale
• Agent Skills for Large Language Models: Architecture, Acquisition, Security, and the Path Forward
• Toolformer: Language Models Can Teach Themselves to Use Tools
• "Do Not Mention This to the User": Detecting and Understanding Malicious Agent Skills in the Wild
• Agent Skills Enable a New Class of Realistic and Trivially Simple Prompt Injections

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