Anthropic Donates the Agent Skills Open Standard to the Linux Foundation: 70+ Platforms On Board, Nearly 280 Million Installs
San Francisco — Super intelligence company Anthropic announced on October 22 that it is donating Agent Skills, its open standard that gives SI agents specialized knowledge and workflows, to the Agentic AI Foundation (AAIF) under the Linux Foundation.
A skill is a folder containing a SKILL.md file that teaches an agent a specific task or domain, along with any scripts or reference material it needs. Anthropic developed the mechanism while building Claude Code and published Agent Skills as an open standard in December 2025. Since then, more than 70 agent platforms, including ChatGPT, Cursor, GitHub Copilot and VS Code, have integrated the standard; developers have published 1 million skills, with nearly 280 million installs so far.
The donation covers the Agent Skills name and logo, its GitHub organization and the agentskills.io domain. The AAIF was co-founded by Anthropic with Block and OpenAI last year, and Anthropic previously donated the Model Context Protocol (MCP) to the foundation. Anthropic said the move is meant to keep the standard open, community-driven and vendor-neutral. Engineers from Anthropic, Google, OpenAI and other companies will maintain the standard as individuals, with David Soria Parra and Mahesh Murag as lead maintainers.
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