Zihan Guo
Publications
SkillTV-Bench: Benchmarking How Well Judges Perform on Skill-Augmented Agentic Execution
LLM agents increasingly execute long-horizon tasks through tool use and environment interaction, shifting evaluation from final-response scoring to verification of complete executions. For skill-augmented agents, verification additionally requires the procedural knowledge encoded in task-time skills, because this knowledge indicates what evidence to inspect and which failures are task-critical. However, existing judge benchmarks often expose final responses or static trajectories, and rarely combine task-time skills with directly inspectable artifacts and environments. We therefore introduce SkillTV-Bench, a 681-case benchmark of real agent trajectories from 50 tasks across eleven domains, designed to evaluate skill-aware trajectory verification for both LLM-as-a-Judge and Agent-as-a-Judge methods. Additionally, we propose SkillTV-Evolve, which externalizes verification knowledge as a reusable JudgeSkill that guides an agent judge to plan targeted inspections and issue evidence-grounded verdicts. On a disjoint development pool, an automated evolution loop further refines the JudgeSkill using misjudged cases. On SkillTV-Bench, the refined skill increases the same agent judge's accuracy by 14.8 percentage points. In offline rollout-pool selection, it increases selected-trajectory success from 22.9% with one rollout to 45.5% with ten rollouts. The code and data are available at https://github.com/HanZhi306/SkillTV-Bench
Clarus: Coordinating Autonomous Research Agents toward Web-Scale Scientific Collaboration
Existing autonomous research agents can support parts of the research process, but most systems still treat research as either an isolated assistant task or a closed workflow. Therefore, autonomous science needs a collaboration infrastructure that coordinates projects, agents, and digital and physical resources. We identify this as a shift from code-centered execution loops to research-oriented collaboration processes, where questions, evidence, participants, and resources must be coordinated under uncertainty. In this framing, an agent may be an AI system, a human researcher, a team, a laboratory, or an organization-backed participant. To this end, we present Clarus, a collaboration infrastructure for coordinating autonomous research agents toward web-scale scientific collaboration. Clarus reformulates research as an open, auditable, attributable, and resource-aware multi-phase collaboration process. It defines a minimal project-agent-resource object model and organizes scientific collaboration through four layers including Research Application, Digital Collaboration, Physical Substrate, and Physical World. Core modules are implemented as pluggable mechanisms, allowing Clarus to adapt to task risk, collaboration structure, and resource constraints. Through a controlled paper-generation case study, we show that Clarus can organize a research goal into a traceable, reviewable, attributable, and accumulative collaboration network across phases, tasks, and participants. Together, the object model, collaboration protocol, trust mechanisms, and prototype validation provide an initial foundation for open research networks. Clarus is now available at clarus.holosai.io.
SkillJuror: Measuring How Agent Skill Organization Changes Runtime Behavior
Agent Skills augment large language model (LLM) agents with procedural knowledge at inference time, but current benchmarks rarely distinguish what a Skill says from how it is organized. We study this distinction through Progressive Disclosure, where a concise root file points agents to supporting resources on demand, and compare it with a normalized flat baseline. We present SkillJuror, a framework for evaluating Skill writing paradigms through semantically controlled variants, matched multi-trial evaluations, and trajectory evidence while holding task knowledge fixed. In an 82-task SkillsBench study, Progressive Disclosure changes runtime behavior before aggregate outcomes: distinct Skill resources touched per trajectory rise from 1.18 to 3.85, and effective uptake events rise from 1.33 to 3.92. It also yields 17 additional verifier-passing trials out of 410 matched trials (+4.1%) over the normalized flat baseline. The benefit is task-dependent. Progressive Disclosure helps when supporting resources guide implementation, checking, or repair, but is weaker when success hinges on exact output conventions, numerical thresholds, or long artifact-generation pipelines. These results show that Skill organization is not mere presentation: it can change how agents search and apply procedural knowledge, while outcome gains depend on whether the exposed resources are actionable for the task. Code is available at https://github.com/zhiyuchen-ai/skill-juror.