AutoRefine: Compiling Trajectories into Validated Typed Agent Artifacts
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Large language model agents repeatedly encounter related tasks, yet systems that learn from trajectories commit every lesson to one predefined artifact form. A local constraint, a reusable procedure, and a delegated objective require different amounts of runtime ownership, so one form either under-specifies the correction or wraps it in execution machinery it does not need. We present AutoRefine, which treats trajectory learning as typed artifact compilation. It contrasts failed against successful trajectories to derive a type-neutral, evidence-linked intervention specification, then compiles that specification into the first Rule, Skill, or bounded Subagent that closes it under a runtime-relative ownership order: the selected schema must own every specified observation, state variable, dependent decision, and completion condition. Validation is stated in the same terms: a type-specific contract gate tests whether the generated object realizes its declared boundary, and a replay gate admits it only when it improves the correction cases linked to its source failures without regression on preservation cases. With GPT-5.6-terra as the shared backbone, AutoRefine records the highest success on ALFWorld, ScienceWorld, TravelPlanner, and SpreadsheetBench, and ties the best result on SkillCraft; on TravelPlanner it reaches 80.56% success against 50.0% for the strongest baseline. Removing boundary closure or replay validation costs 15.00 and 16.11 percentage points, the two largest losses among our construction and admission policies. In a longitudinal TravelPlanner stream, the repository holds 89--91% held-out success after 60 learning tasks with no net loss on previously solved tasks, and frozen repositories improve all 25 evaluated source--target pairs, more within a domain (14.20 points on average) than across domains (6.99).