# Anthropic — Donating Agent Skills to the Agentic AI Foundation

- Company: Anthropic (anthropic.com)
- Announced: 2026-10-22
- Category: partnership-acquisition
- Coverage: 1 outlet
- Announcement: yes
- Group: covered
- Source: https://www.anthropic.com/news/donating-agent-skills-to-the-agentic-ai-foundation
- Record: https://forck.live/items/26796-donating-agent-skills-to-the-agentic-ai-foundation
- Subject: Claude

Anthropic is donating Agent Skills, the open standard it published in December 2025 for giving AI agents specialized knowledge and workflows, to the Agentic AI Foundation under the Linux Foundation. The standard was developed while Anthropic worked on Claude Code, which handled general knowledge work well but often lacked the procedural knowledge real business tasks need. More than 70 agent platforms, including ChatGPT, Cursor, GitHub Copilot and VS Code, have integrated Agent Skills, and Anthropic says 1 million skills have been published and nearly 280 million installed. Anthropic is handing over the Agent Skills name and logo, the GitHub organization and the agentskills.io domain, and says people can keep using or contributing to the standard without joining the AAIF. Engineers from Anthropic, Google, OpenAI and other companies will maintain it as individuals, with David Soria Parra and Mahesh Murag as Lead Maintainers. Anthropic has proposed a roadmap covering versioned releases, a formal proposal process and security guidance for people who write and install skills.

## Evidence

Verbatim from https://www.anthropic.com/news/donating-agent-skills-to-the-agentic-ai-foundation:

> Today, we’re donating the standard to the Agentic AI Foundation (AAIF) under the Linux Foundation, which we co-founded with Block and OpenAI last year, and to which we donated the Model Context Protocol (MCP). The AAIF will provide a neutral home to the standard going forward, ensuring the community has a say in where Agent Skills go next.

## Around this story

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- Madrobot — Anthropic is giving away Agent Skills, the Claude add-on format now used by ChatGPT and 70 other AI tools: https://madrobot.blog/2026/10/22/anthropic-donates-agent-skills-agentic-ai-foundation-linux-foundation

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