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Anthropic donates Agent Skills to the Agentic AI Foundation
Anthropic's post of 22 October says the name, logo, GitHub organization and domain move to the foundation, which operates under the Linux Foundation.
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Key points
- Anthropic says it is donating the Agent Skills name and logo, the GitHub organization and the agentskills.io domain to the Agentic AI Foundation, which operates under the Linux Foundation.
- Anthropic says more than 70 agent platforms, including ChatGPT, Cursor, GitHub Copilot and VS Code, have integrated Agent Skills, and nearly 280 million skills have been installed.
- The proposed roadmap includes versioned releases, a formal proposal process and security guidance for skill authors and installers. Engineers from several companies will maintain the standard as individuals.
What happened
Anthropic said on 22 October 2026 that it is donating Agent Skills, an open standard for giving AI agents specialized knowledge and workflows, to the Agentic AI Foundation (AAIF). The donation covers the Agent Skills name and logo, the GitHub organization and the agentskills.io domain.
AAIF operates under the Linux Foundation; Anthropic co-founded it last year with Block and OpenAI and has also donated the Model Context Protocol to it. Engineers from Anthropic, Google, OpenAI and other companies will maintain the standard as individuals, and the lead maintainers are David Soria Parra and Mahesh Murag.
Anthropic says the proposed roadmap includes versioned releases, a formal proposal process and security guidance for skill authors and installers. Anthropic launched skills in October 2025 and published them as an open standard in December 2025.
It says more than 70 agent platforms have integrated the standard, including ChatGPT, Cursor, GitHub Copilot and VS Code, that one million skills have been published, and that nearly 280 million have been installed.
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Fact 1 of 9 · from Anthropic, 22 Oct 2026
Published Oct 22, 2026 ... Today, we’re donating Agent Skills, the open standard that gives AI agents specialized knowledge and workflows, to the Agentic AI Foundation (AAIF).
Fact 2 of 9 · from Anthropic, 22 Oct 2026
We are donating the Agent Skills name and logo, the GitHub organization, and the agentskills.io domain.
Fact 4 of 9 · from Anthropic, 22 Oct 2026
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).
Fact 5 of 9 · from Anthropic, 22 Oct 2026
Engineers from Anthropic, Google, OpenAI, and other companies will maintain the standard as individuals, with David Soria Parra and Mahesh Murag as Lead Maintainers.
Fact 6 of 9 · from Anthropic, 22 Oct 2026
We’ve proposed starting with a roadmap covering versioned releases, a formal proposal process, and security guidance for people who write and install skills.
Fact 8 of 9 · from Anthropic, 22 Oct 2026
More than 70 agent platforms, including ChatGPT, Cursor, GitHub Copilot, and VS Code, have integrated Agent Skills since we published the standard in December 2025.
What it means for you
Our viewThe adoption figures are Anthropic's own. The donation gives the standard a home outside Anthropic: the post says engineers from Anthropic, Google, OpenAI and other companies will maintain it as individuals, with David Soria Parra and Mahesh Murag as Lead Maintainers.
For teams that write skills, the part to watch is the proposed security guidance for authors and installers, which is still a proposal. If you install skills from third parties, check where each one comes from and who maintains it, and read its SKILL.md before you enable it.
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1 Donating Agent Skills to the Agentic AI Foundation
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Anthropic's post of 22 October 2026 says Anthropic is donating Agent Skills, an open standard for giving AI agents specialized knowledge and workflows, to the Agentic AI Foundation (AAIF).
citePublished Oct 22, 2026 ... Today, we’re donating Agent Skills, the open standard that gives AI agents specialized knowledge and workflows, to the Agentic AI Foundation (AAIF).
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The post says the donation covers the Agent Skills name and logo, the GitHub organization and the agentskills.io domain.
citeWe are donating the Agent Skills name and logo, the GitHub organization, and the agentskills.io domain.
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The post says AAIF operates under the Linux Foundation.
citewe are donating the standard to the Agentic AI Foundation (AAIF) under the Linux Foundation
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The post says Anthropic co-founded AAIF last year with Block and OpenAI, and also donated the Model Context Protocol to it.
citethe 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).
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The post says engineers from Anthropic, Google, OpenAI and other companies will maintain the standard as individuals, and names David Soria Parra and Mahesh Murag as Lead Maintainers.
citeEngineers 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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The post says the proposed roadmap includes versioned releases, a formal proposal process, and security guidance for skill authors and installers.
citeWe’ve proposed starting with a roadmap covering versioned releases, a formal proposal process, and security guidance for people who write and install skills.
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The post says Anthropic launched skills in October 2025 and published Agent Skills as an open standard in December 2025.
citeWithin weeks of our October 2025 launch ... since we published the standard in December 2025.
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Anthropic says more than 70 agent platforms, including ChatGPT, Cursor, GitHub Copilot and VS Code, have integrated Agent Skills. the company says
citeMore than 70 agent platforms, including ChatGPT, Cursor, GitHub Copilot, and VS Code, have integrated Agent Skills since we published the standard in December 2025.
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Anthropic says one million skills have been published and nearly 280 million have been installed. the company says
citeSo far, 1 million skills have been published and nearly 280 million installed.
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Source 1 · Anthropic · 22 Oct 2026
Donating Agent Skills to the Agentic AI Foundation
Anthropic's post of 22 October 2026 says Anthropic is donating Agent Skills, an open standard for giving AI agents specialized knowledge and workflows, to the Agentic AI Foundation (AAIF).
Published Oct 22, 2026 ... Today, we’re donating Agent Skills, the open standard that gives AI agents specialized knowledge and workflows, to the Agentic AI Foundation (AAIF).
The post says the donation covers the Agent Skills name and logo, the GitHub organization and the agentskills.io domain.
We are donating the Agent Skills name and logo, the GitHub organization, and the agentskills.io domain.
The post says AAIF operates under the Linux Foundation.
we are donating the standard to the Agentic AI Foundation (AAIF) under the Linux Foundation
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The post says Anthropic co-founded AAIF last year with Block and OpenAI, and also donated the Model Context Protocol to it.
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 post says engineers from Anthropic, Google, OpenAI and other companies will maintain the standard as individuals, and names David Soria Parra and Mahesh Murag as Lead Maintainers.
Engineers from Anthropic, Google, OpenAI, and other companies will maintain the standard as individuals, with David Soria Parra and Mahesh Murag as Lead Maintainers.
The post says the proposed roadmap includes versioned releases, a formal proposal process, and security guidance for skill authors and installers.
We’ve proposed starting with a roadmap covering versioned releases, a formal proposal process, and security guidance for people who write and install skills.
The post says Anthropic launched skills in October 2025 and published Agent Skills as an open standard in December 2025.
Within weeks of our October 2025 launch ... since we published the standard in December 2025.
Anthropic says more than 70 agent platforms, including ChatGPT, Cursor, GitHub Copilot and VS Code, have integrated Agent Skills. the company says
More than 70 agent platforms, including ChatGPT, Cursor, GitHub Copilot, and VS Code, have integrated Agent Skills since we published the standard in December 2025.
Anthropic says one million skills have been published and nearly 280 million have been installed. the company says
So far, 1 million skills have been published and nearly 280 million installed.
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