Boshen Zhou | Searcharxiv

arXiv2026

Think with Skills: Pseudocode Planning Before Execution for Advanced Reasoners

Language model agents often struggle with complex tasks even when equipped with expert-written skills. Such skills encode declarative knowledge, whereas successful execution requires procedural knowledge tailored to the task at hand. Natural language skills may leave conditions and dependencies implicit, and tasks involving multiple skills further require agents to coordinate intermediate results and execution order. We introduce Think with Skills, a method that trains reasoning models to turn relevant skill descriptions into task-specific pseudocode plans before execution. The pseudocode explicitly represents operations, conditions, intermediate results, and dependencies, providing a structured bridge from skill descriptions to agent actions. We construct training data that pairs tasks and skills with pseudocode plans and execution trajectories, use supervised fine tuning to initialize this behavior, and further optimize end-to-end task performance with Group Relative Policy Optimization. On SkillsBench, Think with Skills raises task success from 35.0% to 62.0%. These results show that proceduralizing expert knowledge before execution substantially improves skill use.

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arXiv2026

MagicAgent: Towards Generalized Agent Planning

The evolution of Large Language Models (LLMs) from passive text processors to autonomous agents has established planning as a core component of modern intelligence. However, achieving generalized planning remains elusive, not only by the scarcity of high-quality interaction data but also by inherent conflicts across heterogeneous planning tasks. These challenges result in models that excel at isolated tasks yet struggle to generalize, while existing multi-task training attempts suffer from gradient interference. In this paper, we present \textbf{MagicAgent}, a series of foundation models specifically designed for generalized agent planning. We introduce a lightweight and scalable synthetic data framework that generates high-quality trajectories across diverse planning tasks, including hierarchical task decomposition, tool-augmented planning, multi-constraint scheduling, procedural logic orchestration, and long-horizon tool execution. To mitigate training conflicts, we propose a two-stage training paradigm comprising supervised fine-tuning followed by multi-objective reinforcement learning over both static datasets and dynamic environments. Empirical results show that MagicAgent-32B and MagicAgent-30B-A3B achieve superior performance across diverse open-source benchmarks (\emph{e.g.}, $75.1\%$ on Worfbench and $86.9\%$ on BFCL-v3), as well as strong results on our in-house MagicEval benchmarks, substantially outperforming existing sub-100B models and surpassing leading ultra-scale models, including GPT-5.2, Kimi-K2 and GLM-4.7.

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