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Donating Agent Skills to the Agentic AI Foundation
Summary
On 2026-10-22 Anthropic gave the Agent Skills open standard to the Agentic AI Foundation (AAIF), the Linux Foundation body that already hosts MCP. The donation covers the name, logo, GitHub organization, and the agentskills.io domain. Anthropic co-founded the AAIF with Block and OpenAI. The spec stays at agentskills.io, and maintainers from several companies now steer it.
Key points
- Governance: the standard is to stay "open, community-driven, and vendor-neutral". Engineers from Anthropic, Google, OpenAI, and others maintain it as individuals. The lead maintainers are David Soria Parra and Mahesh Murag. You do not need to join the AAIF to use the standard or contribute to it.
- Where to take part: the spec is at agentskills.io, discussion happens on GitHub, and feedback on proposed spec changes goes through the project's Discord.
- Adoption (Anthropic's figures): more than 70 agent platforms have integrated Agent Skills since the standard was published in December 2025, including ChatGPT, Cursor, GitHub Copilot, and VS Code. About 1 million skills have been published and nearly 280 million installed.
- Roadmap (no dates): versioned releases, a formal proposal process, and security guidance for skill authors and users.
- Nothing changes for current skills: the post announces no new spec version or
features. A skill is still a folder with a
SKILL.md, plus optional scripts and reference files.
Why it matters
Skills now have the same neutral governance as MCP. A skill written once should keep working across Claude, Codex, Copilot, Cursor, and other agents. The planned security guidance answers a known gap, since skills can carry instructions and code.