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title: Donating Agent Skills to the Agentic AI Foundation
link: https://simonwillison.net/2026/Oct/22/donating-agent-skills/
source: simonwillison-net
published: 2026-10-22T18:09:56Z
updated: 2026-10-22T18:09:56Z
first_seen: 2026-10-22T20:45:08.711028436Z
labels:
- ai
- anthropic
- generative-ai
- llms
- model-context-protocol
- skills
- standards
summary: 'Donating Agent Skills to the Agentic AI Foundation News today from Anthropic: 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 with Block and OpenAI last year, and to which we donated the Model Context Protocol (MCP). I''m pleased to note I called this one last December, when Anthropic first declared skills to be an "open standard": I wouldn''t be surprised to see this end up in the AAIF, recently the new home of the MCP specification. Fun side note: since my blog content is available to Claude via the datasette-mcp plugin I found that post by prompting Claude to "Use simonwillison.net MCP to find if I ever talked about how I want skills to be donated to a standards body". Tags: standards, ai, generative-ai, llms, anthropic, model-context-protocol, skills'
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**[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:

> 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).

I'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":

> 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.

Fun 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`".