# Subagents vs Agent Skills: Executing Reusable Knowledge for Long-Horizon Agentic Tasks

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**Published:** September 10, 2026
**Author:** Wasu Top Piriyakulkij, Rachel Lawrence, Alicia Curth, Sushrut Karmalkar, Niranjani Prasad
**Source:** arXiv — cs.AI
**Language:** en-US
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arXiv:2609.09233v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: How can language model agents effectively leverage libraries of reusable knowledge to solve long-horizon tasks? Recent work has increasingly focused on agent skills: reusable capabilities represented as skill packages, i.e.,…

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