mimeo measures what actually transfers when you compile an expert's public writing into an agent skill

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arXiv 2609.00453 (2026-08-31) separates three claims usually bundled together, that an expert file supplies hard-to-find knowledge, produces a recognizable persona, and changes what the agent decides, and tests each. Eight logged builds averaged 38 model calls and the quotation check rejected 13.2% of extracted quotations. Knowledge access was the clearest win: the expert file answered all 20 obscure quotation-heavy questions, no closed-book condition answered more than 10, and BM25 keyword search over the same pages answered 15.