SCOPE: Prompt Evolution for Enhancing Agent Effectiveness

arXiv:2512.15374v1 Announce Type: new
Abstract: Large Language Model (LLM) agents are increasingly deployed in environments that generate massive, dynamic contexts. However, a critical bottleneck remains: while agents have access to this context, their static prompts lack the mechanisms to manage it effectively, leading to recurring Corrective and Enhancement failures. To address this capability gap, we introduce textbfSCOPE (Self-evolving Context Optimization via Prompt Evolution). SCOPE frames context management as an textitonline optimization problem, synthesizing guidelines from execution traces to automatically evolve the agent’s prompt. We propose a Dual-Stream mechanism that balances tactical specificity (resolving immediate errors) with strategic generality (evolving long-term principles). Furthermore, we introduce Perspective-Driven Exploration to maximize strategy coverage, increasing the likelihood that the agent has the correct strategy for any given task. Experiments on the HLE benchmark show that SCOPE improves task success rates from 14.23% to 38.64% without human intervention. We make our code publicly available at https://github.com/JarvisPei/SCOPE.