Anthropic donates the Agent Skills standard to the Agentic AI Foundation (AAIF)
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Anthropic donates the Agent Skills standard to the Agentic AI Foundation (AAIF), under the Linux Foundation — along with this open standard, which bundles instructions, scripts and reference material around SKILL.md, it handed over the name and logo, the GitHub organization and the agentskills.io domain. Anthropic co-founded AAIF last year with Block and OpenAI and donated MCP to the same foundation
Why it matters
By the company's own aggregation, since the standard was released in December 2025 more than 70 agent platforms have adopted it, including ChatGPT, Cursor, GitHub Copilot and VS Code, and about 1 million skills have been published and installed about 280 million times. Maintenance is handled by engineers from Anthropic, Google, OpenAI and elsewhere acting as individuals rather than as company representatives, with David Soria Parra and Mahesh Murag as lead maintainers. What stands out is that security guidance for the people who use and install skills has gone onto the roadmap along with version releases and a formal proposal process — as skills become something that circulates, the supply-chain problem has moved over to the standard
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Officialanthropic.comhttps://www.anthropic.com/news/donating-agent-skills-to-the-agentic-ai-foundationAdded in Week 44, 2026 · See that week
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