Socratic Skill Learning interleaves teaching and practice for agent skills

What the research found

Socratic Skill Learning interleaves expert teaching with student practice, reaching 0.801 utility on SkillTransferBench versus 0.723 with no skill; the issue-guided variant reaches 0.805 with 61.7% fewer educator tokens, and the benchmark dataset is on Hugging Face.

Claims and how well the evidence supports them

1. Fixed-Window SSL reaches 0.801 utility versus 0.723 without a Skill 99%
2. Issue-Guided SSL reaches 0.805 utility with 61.7% fewer Educator tokens than Fixed-Window SSL 99%
3. SkillTransferBench has 35 task families and 408 executable cases 99%
4. A dataset NJU-LINK/SkillTransferBench is published on Hugging Face 90%

Evidence

• huggingface.co https://huggingface.co/papers/2610.17860
• arxiv.org https://arxiv.org/abs/2610.17860

Actionability rated low.