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Dynamic Dual-Granularity Skill Bank for Agentic RL

Songjun Tu, Chengdong Xu, Qichao Zhang, Yaocheng Zhang, Xiangyuan Lan, Linjing Li, Dongbin Zhao

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Published 2026-03-30 · First seen 2026-03-31

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Agentic reinforcement learning (RL) can benefit substantially from reusable experience, yet existing skill-based methods mainly extract trajectory-level guidance and often lack principled mechanisms for maintaining an evolving skill memory. We propose D2Skill, a dynamic dual-granularity skill bank for agentic RL that organizes reusable experience into task skills for high-level guidance and step skills for fine-grained decision support and error correction. D2Skill jointly trains the policy and skill bank through paired baseline and skill-injected rollouts under the same policy, using their performance gap to derive hindsight utility signals for both skill updating and policy optimization. Built entirely from training-time experience, the skill bank is continuously expanded through reflection and maintained with utility-aware retrieval and pruning. Experiments on ALFWorld and WebShop with Qwen2.5-7B-Instruct and Qwen3-4B-Instruct-2507 show that D2Skill consistently improves success rates over skill-free baselines by 10-20 points. Further ablations and analyses show that both dual-granularity skill modeling and dynamic skill maintenance are critical to these gains, while the learned skills exhibit higher utility, transfer across evaluation settings, and introduce only modest training overhead.

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@article{tu2026dynamic,
  title = {Dynamic Dual-Granularity Skill Bank for Agentic RL},
  author = {Songjun Tu and Chengdong Xu and Qichao Zhang and Yaocheng Zhang and Xiangyuan Lan and Linjing Li and Dongbin Zhao},
  year = {2026},
  abstract = {Agentic reinforcement learning (RL) can benefit substantially from reusable experience, yet existing skill-based methods mainly extract trajectory-level guidance and often lack principled mechanisms for maintaining an evolving skill memory. We propose D2Skill, a dynamic dual-granularity skill bank for agentic RL that organizes reusable experience into task skills for high-level guidance and step skills for fine-grained decision support and error correction. D2Skill jointly trains the policy and },
  url = {https://arxiv.org/abs/2603.28716},
  keywords = {cs.AI},
  eprint = {2603.28716},
  archiveprefix = {arXiv},
}

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