أنثروبيك تتبرع بمعيار «Agent Skills» لمؤسسة محايدة، بعد ما دمجته أكثر من 70 منصةAnthropic donates the Agent Skills standard to a neutral foundation after more than 70 platforms adopted it

Anthropic says it has donated Agent Skills, the open standard that gives AI agents specialised knowledge and ready-made workflows, to the Agentic AI Foundation under the Linux Foundation. Anthropic co-founded the foundation with Block and OpenAI last year and has already donated the Model Context Protocol (MCP) to it.

So what is a skill? Simply a folder with a file called SKILL.md that teaches an agent a specific task or domain, plus any scripts or reference material it needs. Anthropic says it developed the idea while working on Claude Code, which handled general work well but often lacked the procedural knowledge real business tasks need.

In numbers: more than 70 agent platforms have integrated the standard since it was published in December 2025, including ChatGPT, Cursor, GitHub Copilot and VS Code. So far 1 million skills have been published and nearly 280 million installed. The foundation receives the standard's name and logo, its GitHub organisation and the agentskills.io domain.

Engineers from Anthropic, Google, OpenAI and other companies will maintain it as individuals, and the proposed roadmap starts with versioned releases, a formal proposal process and security guidance for people who write and install skills. You can still use or contribute to the standard without joining the foundation.