Anthropic donates Agent Skills standard to the Agentic AI Foundation

Anthropic is donating Agent Skills, the open standard for giving AI agents specialized knowledge and workflows, to the Agentic AI Foundation (AAIF) under the Linux Foundation. More than 70 agent platforms including ChatGPT, Cursor, GitHub Copilot and VS Code have integrated the standard since it was published in December 2025, with 1 million skills published and nearly 280 million installed. The donation covers the Agent Skills name and logo, the GitHub organization and the agentskills.io domain, with engineers from Anthropic, Google, OpenAI and other companies maintaining it as individuals under Lead Maintainers David Soria Parra and Mahesh Murag.