Compositional Skill Routing: Decomposition Is the Bottleneck

When LLM agents need to chain multiple skills, the hard part isn’t retrieval—it’s decomposition. Oracle experiments reveal a 65-percentage-point gap. SAD (Skill-Aware Decomposition) closes it by correcting granularity, not by boosting model capacity. Context window drops 99.9%.

Date: June 25, 2026  |  Estimated Reading Time: 10 min  |  Author: Xueping Gao