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SkillFuzz: Fuzzing Skill Composition for Implicit Intents Discovery in Open Skill Marketplaces

Jinwei Hu, Yi Dong, Youcheng Sun, Xiaowei Huang

Published

Jul 2, 2026

Citations

0

Trust level

Low

Usefulness score

40/100 (Low)

Extraction confidence

45% (Low)

Derived from extracted protocol signals and abstract evidence.

Rater population

Not reported

Signals refreshed

Jul 2, 2026

Should you rely on this paper?

This paper is adjacent to HFEPX scope and is best used for background context, not as a primary protocol reference.

Use this as background context only. Do not make protocol decisions from this page alone.

Best use

Background context only

Use if you need

Background context only.

What to verify

Read the full paper before copying any benchmark, metric, or protocol choices.

Main weakness

The available metadata is too thin to trust this as a primary source.

Human feedback signal
Detected
From extracted signals
Evaluation signal
Weak or implicit
Validate from full paper
Usefulness for eval research
40/100
Adjacent candidate

Treat as adjacent context, not a core eval-method reference.

Abstract

Large Language Model (LLM)-based agents increasingly automate software engineering tasks through reusable skills, natural-language instruction documents that guide planning and execution. Open skill marketplaces enable users to assemble agents by co-activating community-contributed skills, but marketplace operators typically audit skills in isolation. As a result, individually benign skills may interact to redirect an agent toward unintended objectives, which we term implicit intents. Detecting such intents is challenging because the effect emerges only through skill composition, execution environments are often unavailable at admission time, and the space of possible co-activations grows exponentially with marketplace size. In this paper, we formulate implicit-intent discovery as a fuzzing problem over skill compositions, where skill compositions are the unit under test, planning artifacts expose agent intent before execution, and deviations from a skill-free baseline serve as a differential oracle. Based on this formulation, we propose skillfuzz, the first execution-free testing approach that extracts structured skill contracts and uses contract-guided Monte Carlo Tree Search to prioritize potentially conflicting compositions. Across representative skill-marketplace workloads, skillfuzz discovers over 1,000 distinct implicit intents under a fixed query budget, confirms more than 80% of the highest-risk flagged compositions during execution-time validation, and identifies substantially more high-severity implicit intents than alternative search strategies while exploring only a fraction of the pairwise interaction space they require.

What we could verify

These are the protocol signals we could actually recover from the available paper metadata. Use them to decide whether this paper is worth deeper reading.

Human Feedback Types

partial

Pairwise Preference

Directly usable for protocol triage.

"Large Language Model (LLM)-based agents increasingly automate software engineering tasks through reusable skills, natural-language instruction documents that guide planning and execution."

Evaluation Modes

missing

None explicit

Validate eval design from full paper text.

"Large Language Model (LLM)-based agents increasingly automate software engineering tasks through reusable skills, natural-language instruction documents that guide planning and execution."

Quality Controls

missing

Not reported

No explicit QC controls found.

"Large Language Model (LLM)-based agents increasingly automate software engineering tasks through reusable skills, natural-language instruction documents that guide planning and execution."

Benchmarks / Datasets

missing

Not extracted

No benchmark anchors detected.

"Large Language Model (LLM)-based agents increasingly automate software engineering tasks through reusable skills, natural-language instruction documents that guide planning and execution."

Reported Metrics

missing

Not extracted

No metric anchors detected.

"Large Language Model (LLM)-based agents increasingly automate software engineering tasks through reusable skills, natural-language instruction documents that guide planning and execution."

Benchmarks and datasets

No benchmark or dataset names were extracted from the available abstract.

Reported metrics

No metric terms were extracted from the available abstract.

Human feedback details
Uses human feedback
Yes
Feedback types
Pairwise Preference
Rater population
Not reported
Unit of annotation
Pairwise (inferred)
Expertise required
Coding
Evaluation details
Evaluation modes
None
Agentic eval
None
Quality controls
Not reported
Evidence quality
Low
Use this page as
Background context only

Research brief

Metadata summary

Large Language Model (LLM)-based agents increasingly automate software engineering tasks through reusable skills, natural-language instruction documents that guide planning and execution.

Based on abstract + metadata only. Check the source paper before making high-confidence protocol decisions.

Key takeaways

  • Large Language Model (LLM)-based agents increasingly automate software engineering tasks through reusable skills, natural-language instruction documents that guide planning and execution.
  • Open skill marketplaces enable users to assemble agents by co-activating community-contributed skills, but marketplace operators typically audit skills in isolation.
  • As a result, individually benign skills may interact to redirect an agent toward unintended objectives, which we term implicit intents.

Researcher actions

  • Compare this paper against nearby papers in the same arXiv category before using it for protocol decisions.
  • Check the full text for explicit evaluation design choices (raters, protocol, and metrics).
  • Use related-paper links to find stronger protocol-specific references.

Caveats

  • Generated from abstract + metadata only; no PDF parsing.
  • Signals below are heuristic and may miss details reported outside the abstract.

Contribution summary

  • Large Language Model (LLM)-based agents increasingly automate software engineering tasks through reusable skills, natural-language instruction documents that guide planning and execution.
  • Open skill marketplaces enable users to assemble agents by co-activating community-contributed skills, but marketplace operators typically audit skills in isolation.
  • Based on this formulation, we propose skillfuzz, the first execution-free testing approach that extracts structured skill contracts and uses contract-guided Monte Carlo Tree Search to prioritize potentially conflicting compositions.

Why it matters for eval

  • Large Language Model (LLM)-based agents increasingly automate software engineering tasks through reusable skills, natural-language instruction documents that guide planning and execution.
  • Open skill marketplaces enable users to assemble agents by co-activating community-contributed skills, but marketplace operators typically audit skills in isolation.

Researcher checklist

  • Human feedback protocol is explicit

    Detected: Pairwise Preference

  • Evaluation mode is explicit

    No clear evaluation mode extracted.

  • Quality control reporting appears

    No calibration/adjudication/IAA control explicitly detected.

  • Benchmark or dataset anchors are present

    No benchmark/dataset anchor extracted from abstract.

  • Metric reporting is present

    No metric terms extracted.