TL;DR
ContractSkill introduces a framework that transforms implicit web agent skills into explicit, repairable artifacts, improving stability, verification, and reusability in multimodal web environments.
Contribution
The paper presents ContractSkill, a novel method for converting draft skills into explicit, executable artifacts enabling local repair and verification, enhancing web agent robustness.
Findings
ContractSkill improves skill stability and repairability in web agents.
Repaired skills remain reusable even after source model removal.
Explicit skills facilitate deterministic verification and fault localization.
Abstract
Self-generated skills for web agents are often unstable and can even hurt performance relative to direct acting. We argue that the key bottleneck is not only skill generation quality, but the fact that web skills remain implicit and therefore cannot be checked or locally repaired. To address this, we present ContractSkill, a framework that converts a draft skill into an executable artifact with explicit procedural structure, enabling deterministic verifica tion, fault localization, and minimal local repair. This turns skill refinement from full rewriting into localized editing of a single skill artifact. Experiments on VisualWebArena show that Contract Skill is effective in realistic web environments, while MiniWoB provides a controlled test of the mechanism behind the gain. Under matched transfer layers, repaired artifacts also remain reusable after removing the source model from the…
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