Brief, mostly facts

Anthropic donates Agent Skills standard to Agentic AI Foundation

The open standard moves under the Linux Foundation, following Anthropic's earlier MCP donation. The move is confirmed by the source.

Read the source at simonwillison.net

What the research found

Simon Willison relays Anthropic's announcement that it is donating the Agent Skills standard to the Agentic AI Foundation under the Linux Foundation, following MCP; overlaps with #5112.

Claims and how well the evidence supports them

Anthropic is donating Agent Skills standard to the Agentic AI Foundation under the Linux Foundation 99%
Anthropic previously donated Model Context Protocol to AAIF 96%

Evidence

simonwillison.net https://simonwillison.net/2026/Oct/22/donating-agent-skills

Actionability rated low.