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HKUDS OpenSpace Adds a Shared Skill Management Layer for AI Agents

September 13, 2026 at 02:13 EDT

AI Agents
Software Dev & Coding
Open Source

HKUDS has released OpenSpace, an open-source management layer that lets Claude Code, Codex and other MCP-capable agents retrieve, evaluate, share and evolve reusable skills. The project treats skills as an operational library whose quality is measured through real task outcomes, rather than as static files that accumulate in a directory.

AI AGENTS · OPEN SOURCE

OpenSpace manages the skill lifecycle

HKUDS’s open-source layer helps agents retrieve, evaluate, share and evolve reusable skills through real task outcomes.

The learning loop

1 · Retrieve
Find a relevant skill

→

2 · Execute
Apply it to a task

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3 · Evaluate
Record what happened

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4 · Evolve
Improve with evidence

Reported Terminal-Bench 2.1 result

Same frozen Hy3 backbone as the skill library evolved

65.2%

Cold

78.7%

Warm

+13.5 percentage points in the project’s reported measurement; the result is not independently audited.

Potential value

Recurring work can become reusable, measured knowledge across multiple agents.

Open questions

Quality needs repeated runs, while imported skills and dependencies still require review.

THE TAKEAWAY

Skills become more useful when outcomes decide what survives.

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