Anthropic Donates Agent Skills Standard to the Linux Foundation

Anthropic has decided to donate the Agent Skills standard to the Agentic AI Foundation (AAIF), a Linux Foundation project. This standard was originally developed by Anthropic during the creation of Claude Code, first released in October 2025, and officially opened as a cross-platform universal specification in December of the same year; to date, over 70 AI Agent platforms—including ChatGPT, Cursor, and GitHub Copilot—have integrated it. According to Anthropic’s definition, a “Skill” is a reusable operational guide designed for AI Agents; developers can specify task execution workflows by writing an SKILL.md file and simultaneously provide supporting scripts and reference materials, enabling various Agents to invoke and interpret them on demand. MCP is responsible