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Anthropic donates the Agent Skills AI standard to the AAIF

Anthropic transfers its open standard for giving AI agents specialized knowledge to the Agentic AI Foundation.

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Summary

Anthropic is handing over the Agent Skills standard to the Agentic AI Foundation under the Linux Foundation. Over 70 agent platforms have integrated the standard since December 2025. Engineers from Anthropic, Google, and OpenAI will maintain the project.

What changed

  • Donated the Agent Skills open standard to the Agentic AI Foundation.
  • Transferred the standard name, logo, GitHub organization, and domain.
  • Set up a maintenance team of engineers from multiple AI companies.

Availability

Available now

“You can continue to use the standard or contribute to it without joining the AAIF.”

Founder takeaway

Review the open standard at agentskills.io if you build AI agents, or join the project Discord to track roadmap changes.

Source

AnthropicDonating Agent Skills to the Agentic AI Foundation

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