# SkillOpt – Executive Strategy for Self-Evolving Agent Skills

> Source: <https://microsoft.github.io/SkillOpt/>
> Published: 2026-05-26 08:05:14+00:00

### A skill is external state for an agent.

Instead of fine-tuning a model or hand-maintaining prompts, SkillOpt runs the frozen agent on scored batches, asks a separate optimizer model to propose structured edits, and accepts a candidate only when validation performance improves.