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Anthropic donates its Agent Skills standard to the Linux Foundation's AAIF, its second contribution after MCP

Announced October 22, 2026

Verified (fact)

Anthropic has handed Agent Skills, an open standard for giving AI agents domain-specific knowledge and task procedures, to the Agentic AI Foundation (AAIF). AAIF is a foundation under the Linux Foundation that Anthropic co-founded with Block and OpenAI last year, and MCP (Model Context Protocol) was donated to it earlier. Anthropic said that since it published the standard in December 2025, more than 70 agent platforms have adopted it, including ChatGPT, Cursor, GitHub Copilot and VS Code. Simon Willison wrote on his blog that the donation is the direction he predicted late last year.

Needs fact-check (claim)

Anthropic said it will keep Agent Skills as an open, community-driven standard that does not favor any particular vendor. The figure of more than 70 adopters comes from the company's announcement.

Why it matters (interpretation)

With Skills following MCP to a neutral foundation, the shift is clearer: how agents connect to tools and how task knowledge is packaged are settling into vendor-neutral standards. For teams that want to reuse the same Skill across multiple agent platforms, this means more stable governance for the standard.

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