Donating 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). I'm pleased to note I…
Anthropic has announced its commitment to keeping Agent Skills open, community-driven, and vendor-neutral. The company has decided to donate the standard to the Agentic AI Foundation (AAIF), which is housed under the Linux Foundation. This move comes shortly after Anthropic declared skills to be an open standard back in December.
The donation of the Model Context Protocol (MCP) to the AAIF, a body recently established to manage the MCP specification, is not surprising. Interestingly, Simon Willison, a blogger, found information about Anthropic's stance on skills by prompting Claude to search for any posts on his website, simonwillison.net MCP, where he expressed his desire for skills to be donated to a standards body.
Written by urgent.news from Simon Willison's reporting — not their text. Machine-written — may contain errors; check the original before relying on it.
