Anthropic donates Agent Skills standard to the Agentic AI Foundation
The open standard for AI agent skills is now under the Linux Foundation’s Agentic AI Foundation, following Anthropic’s donation of Model Context Protocol last year.
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- Anthropic donated the Agent Skills open standard to the Agentic AI Foundation (AAIF) under the Linux Foundation.
- AAIF was co-founded by Anthropic, Block, and OpenAI in 2025 and previously received Anthropic’s Model Context Protocol (MCP) donation.
- The move aims to keep Agent Skills open, community-driven, and vendor-neutral.
Anthropic announced it is donating the Agent Skills standard to the Agentic AI Foundation (AAIF), a Linux Foundation project. The donation formalizes the standard’s governance under a vendor-neutral body, aligning with Anthropic’s stated commitment to openness and community collaboration.
The AAIF was co-founded in 2025 by Anthropic, Block, and OpenAI and previously received Anthropic’s donation of the Model Context Protocol (MCP) specification. This move mirrors the earlier transfer of MCP to the same foundation, reinforcing a pattern of consolidating open agentic standards under a single governance structure.
Anthropic described Agent Skills as an open standard and emphasized its intent to keep the specification open, community-driven, and vendor-neutral. The foundation’s role is to steward the standard’s development and adoption, ensuring it remains accessible to contributors and implementers across the industry.
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