Anthropic donates the Agent Skills open standard to the Linux Foundation’s Agentic AI Foundation, after 70+ agent platforms adopted it with 1M skills published and nearly 280M installs
On 2026-10-22 Anthropic said it is donating Agent Skills, the open standard that teaches agents a task through a folder with a SKILL.md file, to the Agentic AI Foundation (AAIF) under the Linux Foundation, the same neutral home it gave MCP. The donation covers the Agent Skills name and logo, the GitHub organization and the agentskills.io domain. Anthropic says more than 70 agent platforms, including ChatGPT, Cursor, GitHub Copilot and VS Code, have integrated the standard since December 2025, with 1 million skills published and nearly 280 million installs. Engineers from Anthropic, Google, OpenAI and others will maintain it as individuals.
Key Takeaways
- Official figure: 70+ agent platforms have integrated Agent Skills, including ChatGPT, Cursor, GitHub Copilot and VS Code
- 1 million skills published and nearly 280 million installs so far (Anthropic figures)
- Donated: the Agent Skills name and logo, the GitHub organization and the agentskills.io domain; you can keep using or contributing without joining AAIF
- Lead Maintainers are David Soria Parra and Mahesh Murag, with engineers from Anthropic, Google, OpenAI and others maintaining it as individuals
- Proposed first roadmap: versioned releases, a formal proposal process and security guidance for people who write and install skills
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