Anthropic Donates Agent Skills Standard to Agentic AI Foundation

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Anthropic announced that it is donating the Agent Skills standard to the Agentic AI Foundation (AAIF) under the Linux Foundation, in order to keep it open, community-driven, and vendor-neutral. The AAIF was co-founded last year by Anthropic along with Block and OpenAI, and the MCP specification had previously been donated to this foundation as well. Simon Willison noted that he had predicted this development last December, and used the MCP plugin on simonwillison.net to retrieve that prediction of his from that time.

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22nd October 2026 - Link Blog

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 called this one last December, when Anthropic first declared skills to be an "open standard":

I wouldn't be surprised to see this end up in the AAIF, recently the new home of the MCP specification.

Fun side note: since my blog content is available to Claude via the datasette-mcp plugin I found that post by prompting Claude to "Use simonwillison.net MCP to find if I ever talked about how I want skills to be donated to a standards body".

Posted 22nd October 2026 at 6:09 pm

Anthropic Donates Agent Skills Standard to Agentic AI Foundation

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