SWE-Skills-Bench: Do Agent Skills Actually Help in Real-World Software Engineering?

arXiv:2603.15401 · cs.SE, cs.AI · Submitted 2026-03-16 · Read on arXiv

cs.SE, cs.AI

Submitted: 2026-03-16

Updated: 2026-10-27

Terminology

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• Benchmark — 1× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Procedural Knowledge — 1× in this paper · explained in 3 episodes
• Verification — 1× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes

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