Garry Tan on SKILLOPT — implementable trivially in Hermes Agent

Definition

Garry Tan (Y Combinator CEO) shares a research diagram of SKILLOPT, a text-space optimization framework for AI agents. Instead of fine-tuning model weights, SKILLOPT optimizes a "Skill Document" (text prompt/instructions) through bounded edits — treating the prompt space like a loss landscape and walking downhill toward lower error rates.

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