Anthropic donates Agent Skills standard to the Agentic AI Foundation
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On October 22, 2026, Anthropic said it is donating Agent Skills, an open standard for giving AI agents specialized knowledge and workflows, to the Agentic AI Foundation under the Linux Foundation. Anthropic says the standard has already been integrated by more than 70 agent platforms, including ChatGPT, Cursor, GitHub Copilot, and VS Code, and that about 1 million skills have been published with nearly 280 million installations. The company said the transfer includes the Agent Skills name and logo, GitHub organization, and agentskills.io domain, while the project remains open for community use and contribution. Anthropic frames the move as a vendor-neutral home for the standard, with roadmap work expected on versioned releases, formal proposals, and security guidance.
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