AI BriefingAnthropic Donates Agent Skills Standard to Agentic AI Foundation
·2026.10.22 09:00
Key point
The open standard, integrated by over 70 platforms including ChatGPT and GitHub Copilot, has seen 1 million skills published and 280 million installs since its December 2025 launch.
Details
- Anthropic donates the Agent Skills standard, name, logo, GitHub organization, and agentskills.io domain to the Agentic AI Foundation (AAIF) under the Linux Foundation.
- Agent Skills, an open standard for giving AI agents specialized knowledge via SKILL.md files, has been integrated by more than 70 agent platforms, including ChatGPT, Cursor, GitHub Copilot, and VS Code.
- Since the standard was published in December 2025, 1 million skills have been published and nearly 280 million installed.
- Engineers from Anthropic, Google, OpenAI, and other companies will maintain the standard as individuals, with David Soria Parra and Mahesh Murag serving as Lead Maintainers.
- The AAIF will provide a neutral home for the standard, ensuring community input and vendor neutrality, similar to the Model Context Protocol (MCP) previously donated to the foundation.
- A proposed roadmap includes versioned releases, a formal proposal process, and security guidance for skill writers and installers.
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