{
  "id": 16083446,
  "title": "Donating Agent Skills to the Agentic AI Foundation",
  "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/10/22/donating-agent-skills-to-the-agentic-ai-foundation",
  "topic": "ai",
  "section": "AI",
  "published": "2026-10-22T18:09:56.000Z",
  "source": {
    "name": "Simon Willison",
    "slug": "simon-willison",
    "url": "https://simonwillison.net/2026/Oct/22/donating-agent-skills/"
  },
  "original_language": "en",
  "account": "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.",
  "summary": "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…",
  "key_points": [
    "Anthropic commits to open, community-driven Agent Skills",
    "Donates Model Context Protocol (MCP) to Agentic AI Foundation",
    "Foundation housed under Linux Foundation"
  ],
  "editors_take": null,
  "illustration": null,
  "coverage": {
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  },
  "ai_generated": true,
  "disclaimer": "Summaries, key points and the editor’s take are written by software from other outlets’ reporting and may contain errors — always check the linked original."
}