Anthropic donates Agent Skills to Agentic AI Foundation, home of MCP, with 70+ platforms on board
bcherny · x · 2026-10-23
Anthropic engineer Boris Cherny announced that Agent Skills, which started as an experiment in Claude Code, has been donated to the Agentic AI Foundation — the same foundation that hosts MCP.
According to the announcement, over 70 agent platforms have integrated the standard since December 2025, including ChatGPT, Cursor, GitHub Copilot, and VS Code, signaling industry-wide standardization of agent capability definitions.
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