OpenAI's New Agent Standard Criticized: Where is Anthropic?
Scobleizer · x · 2026-08-07
Following the announcement of the Agent Plugins open standard by OpenAI and its partners, developers noted that Anthropic was missing from the list of collaborating companies.
Commenters argued that pushing a standard designed by a committee of competitors while ignoring a top player could backfire, leaving customers to deal with fragmented compatibility. This contrasts sharply with how Anthropic originally proposed the MCP protocol on its own.
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