Self-evolving Agentic Customer Support System at LinkedIn
TL;DR
LinkedIn's self-evolving agentic support system is presented, which integrates retrieval-augmented generation with evolutionary auto-prompting and a modular, production-aligned evaluation framework to enable safe, continuous improvement without retraining foundation models.
Abstract
Enterprise support agents operate in rapidly changing environments where policies, product capabilities, and knowledge bases evolve continuously, making static assistants brittle and costly to maintain. We present LinkedIn's self-evolving agentic support system, which integrates retrieval-augmented generation with evolutionary auto-prompting and a modular, production-aligned evaluation framework to enable safe, continuous improvement without retraining foundation models. The system treats prompts, retrieval, and evaluation as a closed-loop, versioned workflow with operational guardrails. Offline simulations and ablations show clear quality gains over vanilla RAG and baseline agents, including reduced hallucinations and improved response completeness. In a two-week user-randomized A/B test on LinkedIn's production support traffic, the integrated self-evolved workflow increased QA self-serve by 9.0 percentage points, cancellation self-serve by 4.8 points, and routing accuracy by 30.6 points. These results demonstrate a practical path to scalable, self-evolving AI agents in real-world enterprise settings.