SkillTrace: Multi-Trace Provenance Auditing for LLM-Agent Skill Reuse
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Jialuo Chen, Minghe Wang, Lingqi Jiang, Jianan Ma, Xinhao Deng, Xiaohu Du, Ruixiao Lin, Yunhao Feng, Linkang Du, Jingyi Wang
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Jialuo Chen, Minghe Wang, Lingqi Jiang, Jianan Ma, Xinhao Deng, Xiaohu Du, Ruixiao Lin, Yunhao Feng, Linkang Du, Jingyi Wang
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Terms in this piece · Glossary
AI agent — An AI system that doesn't just answer once but works toward a goal in a loop — taking actions, reading the results, and deciding what to do next.
agent skill — A reusable instruction file that teaches an agent how to do one job well — the procedure, the tools, and what counts as done.
Why it matters
Code-clone detectors miss AI agentAn AI system that doesn't just answer once but works toward a goal in a loop — taking actions, reading the results, and deciding what to do next.Full definition →-agent skillA reusable instruction file that teaches an agent how to do one job well — the procedure, the tools, and what counts as done.Full definition → reuse that preserves only the instructions or only the workflow structure; separating provenance into expression, implementation and operational traces catches it and shows which trace supports the call.
