Microsoft's SkillOpt boosts GPT-5.5 by using nothing but a trained Markdown file
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In three linesMicrosoft and three Chinese universities developed SkillOpt, a method optimizing instruction documents for AI agents using classical training principles. A simple Markdown file boosts GPT-5.5 by ~23 points on procedural tasks and transfers across models (Codex, Claude Code).Read source
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