Anthropic donates Agent Skills standard to AAIF
What happened
On 23 October 2026, Anthropic announced it is donating the Agent Skills standard to the Agentic AI Foundation (AAIF) under the Linux Foundation. Reports say AAIF was founded last year by Anthropic together with Block and OpenAI, and that the MCP specification had already been donated to the foundation. The current status is that the Agent Skills standard has been formally transferred to AAIF management.
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- Simon WillisonDonating Agent Skills to the Agentic AI Foundation
Donating Agent Skills to the Agentic AI Foundation News today from Anthropic: We’re committed to keeping Agent Skills open, community-driven, and vendor-neutral. Today, we are donating the standard to the Agentic AI Foundation (AAIF) under the Linux Foundation, which we co-founded with Block and OpenAI last year, and to which we donated the Model Context Protocol (MCP).
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