Anthropic donates the Agent Skills open standard to the Agentic AI Foundation

Anthropic announced that it is donating the Agent Skills open standard to the Agentic AI Foundation (AAIF) under the Linux Foundation, transferring the standard's name, logo, GitHub organization and the agentskills.io domain. Since the standard was released in December 2025, it has been integrated by more than 70 agent platforms, including ChatGPT, Cursor, GitHub Copilot and VS Code; to date, 1 million skills have been published and nearly 280 million installs have occurred. AAIF was co-founded last year by Anthropic with Block and OpenAI, and MCP has also been donated to the foundation; engineers from Anthropic, Google, OpenAI and other companies will maintain the standard in an individual capacity, with David Soria Parra and Mahesh Murag serving as lead maintainers.