IT Home On October 23, Anthropic announced yesterday (October 22) that it will donate the Agent Skills open standard to the Agentic AI Foundation (AAIF) under the Linux Foundation. This will transform the standard from a single company project into a community-governed AI agent capability standard.
AAIF was established on December 9, 2025. Operated by the Linux Foundation, it is co-founded by Anthropic, Block, and OpenAI. It is responsible for hosting and governing open protocols, standards, and open-source projects in the AI agent ecosystem. Anthropic has previously donated the Model Context Protocol (MCP) to this organization.
IT Home note: Agent Skills can be understood as a “manual” for AI agents: a folder containing the SKILL.md documentation file, which can impart specific tasks or domain knowledge to the agent, and may include scripts, templates, and reference materials. The AI agent can load these skills as needed, allowing reuse of work processes and professional knowledge across different products.
Since its release as an open standard in December 2025, more than 70 intelligent platform tools such as ChatGPT, Cursor, GitHub Copilot, and VS Code have integrated Agent Skills. Anthropic states that the number of public Skills has reached approximately 1 million, with a total installation count of around 280 million.
In addition to the standard itself, this donation also covers the name, logo, GitHub organization, and the domain name of Agentskills.io. Anthropic emphasizes that the standard will remain open, community-led, and supplier-neutral in the future; developers and enterprises can continue to use or contribute to the standard even without joining AAIF.