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Anthropic donates Agent Skills to Agentic AI Foundation

Original title: Donating Agent Skills to the Agentic AI Foundation

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What it is: Anthropic is donating Agent Skills, an open standard that gives AI agents specialized knowledge and workflows, to the Agentic AI Foundation. This move aims to keep the standard open, community-driven, and vendor-neutral.
How it works: A skill is a folder containing a SKILL.md file that teaches an AI agent a specific task or domain, along with any necessary scripts or reference materials.
Where it is available: The standard is integrated into more than 70 agent platforms, including ChatGPT, Cursor, GitHub Copilot, and VS Code.
Example: A business can use it to give an AI agent the specific procedural knowledge needed to complete real business tasks.

What it is: Anthropic has announced the donation of the Agent Skills open standard to the Agentic AI Foundation (AAIF) under the Linux Foundation. The donation includes the Agent Skills name, logo, GitHub organization, and the agentskills.io domain.
How it works: The standard uses a folder structure containing a SKILL.md file to instruct agents on specific tasks or domains, accompanied by required scripts and reference materials.
Where it is available: It is integrated across over 70 platforms like ChatGPT, Cursor, GitHub Copilot, and VS Code, and is hosted on GitHub and agentskills.io.
Example: Developers can write loaders for platforms like Codex, Cursor, and OpenCode to run these skills, or publish skills on GitHub to share specific workflows.

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Donating Agent Skills to the Agentic AI Foundation