Repo-To-Skill: distilling GitHub repositories into reusable AI skills
DisCo is an agent that distills the 'operational knowledge' buried in widely used ML repositories into compact, verified, reusable skills, both task-agnostic and task-oriented. The authors release AREX-Skill, a library of 5,000+ verified skills distilled from 1,000 popular ML repos.
Why it matters
Top paper of the day on HuggingFace Daily Papers with 517 upvotes. With a fixed GPT-5.5 backbone and identical compute, injecting distilled skills alone yields +134.3% on MLE-bench and +34.4% on PaperBench — evidence that reusable know-how, not bigger models, is a cheap multiplier for research agents.
Importance: 4/5
Notable paper + top of HF Daily Papers with 517 upvotes