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mimeo: Compiling Public Expert Corpora into Agent Skills and Testing What Transfers

arXiv · AI, language, vision and robotics · article · Aug 31, 2026 · UTC

Giving an agent a file about a named expert can supply hard-to-find material, produce a recognizable persona, or change what the agent decides. These are different claims. We test each one. mimeo is an open-source tool that finds a person's public work, checks each extracted quotation against the cached source text, and writes a file an agent can load. Eight logged builds averaged 38 model calls; the check rejects 13.2% of extracted quotations. We tested four expert files with one coding-agent harness. Knowledge access was clearest: mimeo answered all 20 obscure, quotation-heavy questions; no

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