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Anthropic donates Agent Skills to the Agentic AI Foundation
- Who
- Anthropic
- What
- donates the Agent Skills standard to the Agentic AI Foundation
- When
What happened
Agent Skills started as an experiment in Claude Code. Boris Cherny says industry adoption led Anthropic to donate it to the Agentic AI Foundation, alongside MCP. https://twitter.com/ClaudeDevs/status/2113328526413996100 In the quoted announcement, @ClaudeDevs says 70+ agent platforms have integrated the standard since December 2025, including ChatGPT, Cursor, GitHub Copilot, and VS Code.
Why it matters
The donation places Agent Skills alongside MCP at the same foundation, providing context on how Anthropic is organizing stewardship of its adopted agent standards.
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The story so far
Anthropic announced it is donating the Agent Skills standard to the Agentic AI Foundation (AAIF) under the Linux Foundation, with a stated commitment to keeping it open, community-driven and vendor-neutral. The foundation also received Anthropic’s Model Context Protocol (MCP). Boris Cherny said Agent Skills began as an experiment in Claude Code and that adoption across the industry prompted the donation. In its announcement, @ClaudeDevs said more than 70 agent platforms had integrated the standard since December 2025, including ChatGPT, Cursor, GitHub Copilot and VS Code. Anthropic co-founded AAIF with Block and OpenAI.
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