Agent Skills (Agentic AI Foundation)
Anthropic donated the Agent Skills open standard to the Linux Foundation's Agentic AI Foundation, with 70+ platforms adopting it.
Overview
On October 22, 2026 Anthropic announced it is donating the Agent Skills open standard to the Agentic AI Foundation (AAIF), part of the Linux Foundation. The donation covers the Agent Skills name and logo, the GitHub organization and the agentskills.io domain. Engineers from Anthropic, Google, OpenAI and other companies will maintain it as individuals, with David Soria Parra and Mahesh Murag as Lead Maintainers. Anthropic reports more than 70 agent platforms, including ChatGPT, Cursor, GitHub Copilot and VS Code, have integrated it, with about 1 million skills published and nearly 280 million installs. The proposed roadmap includes versioned releases, a formal proposal process and security guidance for skill authors and installers.
This is a sourced directory entry. Features and capabilities are reported in the linked sources; this entry does not document independent Aymorphic testing.
Key features
- Open standard for packaging instructions and tools an agent loads on demand
- Neutral governance under the Agentic AI Foundation (Linux Foundation)
- Usable and contributable without joining the foundation
- Proposed roadmap: versioned releases, proposal process, security guidance
Use cases
- Writing one skill that works across Claude, ChatGPT, Cursor, Copilot and VS Code
- Publishing reusable agent workflows to a shared ecosystem
Pricing
Free and open; governed by the Agentic AI Foundation.
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Dates and sources
- Released
- 22 Oct 2026
- Record updated
- 27 Oct 2026
- Record last checked
- 27 Oct 2026