Anthropic Donates Agent Skills Standard to Agentic AI Foundation
10/22/2026 — 10/23, 05:19·3 sources (all)·3 reports (all)
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- Anthropic announced it is donating its open Agent Skills standard to the Agentic AI Foundation. Since its release in December 2025, more tha…
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On October 22, 2026, Anthropic announced in its newsroom that it is donating Agent Skills, an open standard that gives AI agents specialized knowledge and workflows, to the Agentic AI Foundation. According to Anthropic, more than 70 agent platforms have integrated Agent Skills since the standard was published in December 2025, among them ChatGPT, Cursor, GitHub Copilot, and VS Code.
The public record stops at the donation itself. Anthropic named the recipient organization and the scale of adoption, but did not say how the Agentic AI Foundation will take over the standard, who will maintain it going forward, or on what timeline. The announcement also gave no reason for the donation and included no reactions from other parties.
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Latest turnAnthropic has donated Agent Skills, the open standard that gives AI agents specialized knowledge and workflows, to the Agentic AI Foundation. The company says more than 70 platforms have already integrated it, following its 2025 donation of MCP to the same foundation.
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Anthropic has donated Agent Skills, the open standard that gives AI agents specialized knowledge and workflows, to the Agentic AI Foundation. The company says more than 70 platforms have already integrated it, following its 2025 donation of MCP to the same foundation.
TechmemeAI score 61According to Simon Willison, Anthropic is donating its Agent Skills standard to the Agentic AI Foundation under the Linux Foundation, which it co-founded last year with Block and OpenAI. This move follows the prior donation of the Model Context Protocol, reinforcing an open, vendor-neutral standard for AI agents.
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Anthropic is donating Agent Skills, the open standard it published in December 2025 that gives AI agents specialized knowledge and workflows, to the Agentic AI Foundation. More than 70 agent platforms have adopted it, including ChatGPT, Cursor, GitHub Copilot, and VS Code.
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