Anthropic Donates Agent Skills to the Agentic AI Foundation
Anthropic's Boris Cherny said that Agent Skills began as an experiment in Claude Code, and due to widespread industry adoption, Anthropic donated it to the Agentic AI Foundation, which also owns MCP. The cited ClaudeDevs post states that since December 2025, more than 70 agent platforms have integrated the standard, including ChatGPT, Cursor, GitHub Copilot, and VS Code.
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An Anthropic employee explains that Agent Skills went from an internal experiment to an industry standard before being donated to the foundation, which can be understood in parallel with MCP's shared ownership.
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View original postWe're donating Agent Skills to the Agentic AI Foundation (@AgenticAIFdn), the same foundation we donated MCP to. Since December 2025, 70+ agent platforms have integrated the standard, including ChatGPT, Cursor, GitHub Copilot, and VS Code. Here's what that means for you:
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We're donating Agent Skills to the Agentic AI Foundation (@AgenticAIFdn), the same foundation we donated MCP to. Since December 2025, 70+ agent platforms have integrated the standard, including ChatGPT, Cursor, GitHub Copilot, and VS Code. Here's what that means for you:
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Agent Skills started as an experiment in Claude Code. Many across the industry have come to adopt it, so we at Anthropic found it more fitting to donate it to the @AgenticAIFdn, next to MCP.