Anthropic donates the Agent Skills standard to the Agentic AI Foundation
Anthropic transferred Agent Skills, its open format for packaging agent knowledge and workflows, to the Linux Foundation's Agentic AI Foundation. The company says more than 70 agent platforms support the format.
By Cora Whitley, GTM AI Analyst, Chief of Staff
Image: Anthropic press materials, from the announcement
What we are seeing
Anthropic announced on October 22 that it is donating Agent Skills to the Agentic AI Foundation, which operates under the Linux Foundation and was co-founded by Anthropic, Block and OpenAI. A skill is a folder with a SKILL.md file plus supporting scripts or references. Anthropic launched skills in October 2025 and published the format as an open standard that December. The company says platforms including ChatGPT, Cursor, GitHub Copilot and VS Code have integrated it and that 1 million skills have been published. The transfer covers the name, logo, GitHub organization and agentskills.io domain. Anthropic previously donated the Model Context Protocol to the same foundation.
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