First MCP, Now Agent Skills

Anthropic donated its Agent Skills standard to the Agentic AI Foundation, following its earlier donation of the Model Context Protocol (MCP), with Anthropic reporting that more than 70 platforms already support the standard, including ChatGPT, Cursor, GitHub Copilot, and VS Code. The donation transfers the name, logo, GitHub organization, and agentskills.io domain, and engineers from Anthropic, Google, OpenAI, and other companies will maintain the standard as individuals. The move gives up Anthropic's sole control of the format while the conventions it introduced spread across competing products.

First MCP, Now Agent Skills Anthropic has donated Agent Skills to the Agentic AI Foundation https://www.anthropic.com/news/donating-agent-skills-to-the-agentic-ai-foundation , following its earlier donation of the Model Context Protocol MCP . Anthropic says more than 70 platforms already support the standard, including ChatGPT, Cursor, GitHub Copilot, and VS Code. Engineers from Anthropic, Google, OpenAI, and other companies will maintain it as individuals. The donation includes the name, logo, GitHub organization, and agentskills.io domain. The pattern looks familiar: build something useful, publish an open standard, gain adoption, then move it to neutral governance. Anthropic gives up sole control while the conventions it introduced spread across competing products. MCP was the first round. Skills makes two.