Anthropic Donates Agent Skills Standard to Linux Foundation
Anthropic has donated its Agent Skills standard to the Agentic AI Foundation under the Linux Foundation, aiming to establish it as a universal cross-platform format for AI agent capabilities. The standard uses a folder-based 'recipe-card' structure and has been adopted by over 70 platforms including ChatGPT and Cursor, with 1M+ published skills and nearly 280M installs. This move mirrors Anthropic's previous donation of MCP, leveraging neutrality to drive ecosystem interoperability.
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Rohan Paul (@rohanpaul_ai) · 2026-10-22 20
Anthropic has now given ownership of its Agent Skills (a standard recipe-card format that any AI agent, including ChatGPT and GitHub Copilot, can read to learn a task.)to the Agentic AI Foundation, a neutral group run under the Linux Foundation.
In Agent Skills, each skill is a folder holding a SKILL.md instruction file plus any scripts or reference files an agent loads on demand.
Agent Skills began as a fix for Claude Code’s missing procedural knowledge and now runs inside rival products such as ChatGPT, GitHub Copilot, Cursor and VS Code.
Roughly a year after its October 2025 launch, Anthropic counts more than 70 adopting platforms, 1M published skills and nearly 280M installs.
Anthropic made the same move with MCP last year: build a standard that rival AI products adopt, then hand it to the Agentic AI Foundation
↳ 引用 @ClaudeDevs (ClaudeDevs): 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:
