22 October 2026
Anthropic donates its Agent Skills standard to an open foundation
First reported
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- Anthropic, the company behind the Claude chatbot, is giving its Agent Skills standard to the Agentic AI Foundation.
- The Agentic AI Foundation is run under the Linux Foundation, a nonprofit that stewards open-source software.
- The move follows Anthropic's earlier donation of MCP, a protocol that lets AI tools connect to outside data and services.
Our read
Only Simon Willison covered this story among the 30 newsletters tracked. Our archive has two earlier Anthropic items, dated 2026-08-27 and 2026-09-06, but both concern lab equipment control rather than the Agent Skills standard or the Agentic AI Foundation.
Earlier on this story
Written by Newskeryx from which newsletters covered this story and from our own archive.
How it was covered
Simon WillisonDaily notes and links
Anthropic's donation of Agent Skills, the AAIF's role, the author's prior prediction, and a Claude-plus-MCP retrieval demo