Anthropic Donates Agent Skills Standard to Agentic AI Foundation
Summary
Anthropic donates Agent Skills, its open standard for giving agents task-specific skill files, to the Agentic AI Foundation under the Linux Foundation. Anthropic says more than 70 agent platforms, including ChatGPT, Cursor, and GitHub Copilot, have adopted it, with 1 million skills published. David Soria Parra and Mahesh Murag are lead maintainers.
Key Points
- Anthropic reports nearly 280 million skill installations to date.
- The donation transfers the Agent Skills name, logo, GitHub organization, and agentskills.io domain.
- Anthropic proposes a roadmap covering versioned releases, a formal proposal process, and security guidance.