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  "articleBody": "**[Donating Agent Skills to the Agentic AI Foundation](https://www.anthropic.com/news/donating-agent-skills-to-the-agentic-ai-foundation)**. News today from Anthropic:\n\n> We’re committed to keeping Agent Skills open, community-driven, and vendor-neutral. Today, we are donating the standard to the Agentic AI Foundation (AAIF) under the Linux Foundation, [which we co-founded](https://www.anthropic.com/news/donating-the-model-context-protocol-and-establishing-of-the-agentic-ai-foundation) with Block and OpenAI last year, and to which we donated the Model Context Protocol (MCP).\n\nI'm pleased to note I called this one [last December](https://simonwillison.net/2025/Dec/19/agent-skills/), when Anthropic first declared skills to be an \"open standard\":\n\n> I wouldn't be surprised to see this end up [in the AAIF](https://simonwillison.net/2025/Dec/9/agentic-ai-foundation/), recently the new home of the MCP specification.\n\nFun side note: since my blog content is available to Claude via the [datasette-mcp](https://github.com/datasette/datasette-mcp) plugin I found that post by [prompting Claude](https://claude.ai/share/80b341de-590b-4834-bca9-0d9c9a3a0298) to \"`Use simonwillison.net MCP to find if I ever talked about how I want skills to be donated to a standards body`\".\n",
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  "content_html": "<p><strong><a target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" href=\"https://www.anthropic.com/news/donating-agent-skills-to-the-agentic-ai-foundation\">Donating Agent Skills to the Agentic AI Foundation</a></strong>. News today from Anthropic:</p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>We’re committed to keeping Agent Skills open, community-driven, and vendor-neutral. Today, we are donating the standard to the Agentic AI Foundation (AAIF) under the Linux Foundation, <a target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" href=\"https://www.anthropic.com/news/donating-the-model-context-protocol-and-establishing-of-the-agentic-ai-foundation\">which we co-founded</a> with Block and OpenAI last year, and to which we donated the Model Context Protocol (MCP).</p>\n</blockquote>\n<p>I'm pleased to note I called this one <a target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" href=\"https://simonwillison.net/2025/Dec/19/agent-skills/\">last December</a>, when Anthropic first declared skills to be an &quot;open standard&quot;:</p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>I wouldn't be surprised to see this end up <a target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" href=\"https://simonwillison.net/2025/Dec/9/agentic-ai-foundation/\">in the AAIF</a>, recently the new home of the MCP specification.</p>\n</blockquote>\n<p>Fun side note: since my blog content is available to Claude via the <a target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" href=\"https://github.com/datasette/datasette-mcp\">datasette-mcp</a> plugin I found that post by <a target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" href=\"https://claude.ai/share/80b341de-590b-4834-bca9-0d9c9a3a0298\">prompting Claude</a> to &quot;<code>Use simonwillison.net MCP to find if I ever talked about how I want skills to be donated to a standards body</code>&quot;.</p>\n",
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