Anthropic publishes Agent Skills as an open standard (agentskills.io)

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Published Agent Skills as an open standard (agentskills.io)

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Released a specification and a reference SDK; the second standardization attempt after MCP

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Pressgithub.comhttps://github.com/agentskills/agentskills

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  2. This recordAnthropic publishes Agent Skills as an open standard (agentskills.io)
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