Create the “Best Agent Skill” with SkillOpt from Microsoft Research

For two years the move was simple: pick a better model. Then the models got good, and stayed good, and the gaps between them got boring. So the interesting lever is the other thing you hand the agent now. The skill file. Microsoft Research just shipped a tool called SkillOpt that takes that idea literally. SkillOpt is a text-space optimizer that trains reusable natural-language skills for frozen…