# Evolving Together, Failing Apart: The Skill-Policy Co-evolution Trap in Self-Improving Agents

**Published:** October 16, 2026
**Author:** Yujie Feng, Xiaobin Wang, Jinluan Yang, Xiaonan Shi, Pengjun Xie, Philip S. Yu, Xiaoming Wu, Jieping Ye
**Source:** arXiv — cs.AI
**Language:** en-US
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arXiv:2610.20845v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Skill-policy co-evolution, in which an agent's policy model and its skill bank improve each other during training, is a promising paradigm for self-improving agents. Current evaluations score the co-evolved policy on the final bank…

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