Beyond Instruction Following: Learning Grounded Skill-Following with Skill Contracts

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arXiv:2610.05161v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Instruction following typically enforces discrete, response-level requirements, whereas an expert-authored skill prescribes procedural requirements spanning multiple phases and environment interactions. Given such a skill, we train the executor to execute all required phases instead of focusing solely on the final answer. We therefore introduce Grounded Skill-Following, which requires an agent to execute a fixed, expert-authored skill across its re