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A Thousand Repositories Became Five Thousand Skills

DisCo distills operational knowledge from ML codebases into compact, verified task context.

Published Updated Story ID: mp-2026-09-03-017
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Summary

DisCo distills operational knowledge from ML codebases into compact, verified task context.

With backbone, harness and execution budget held fixed, the paper reports gains from 9.2% to 134.3% across four research benchmarks. The comparison supports the tested library, not every repository-to-skill conversion.

Why it matters

DisCo distills operational knowledge from ML codebases into compact, verified task context.

Limits and context

  • The comparison supports the tested library, not every repository-to-skill conversion.

Key claims

  1. DisCo distills operational knowledge from ML codebases into compact, verified task context.

    Qualification: The comparison supports the tested library, not every repository-to-skill conversion.

    Evidence: source-2026-09-03-019

Sources

  1. arXiv preprint 2609.02749arXiv · primary research

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