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Donating Agent Skills to the Agentic AI Foundation

Blog · Watch/Read · (gathered 2026-10-29)

  • Anthropic has donated its “Agent Skills” standard to the Agentic AI Foundation (AAIF), a move Simon Willison had accurately predicted last December when the standard was first declared open.
  • The “Agentic AI Foundation (AAIF),” co-founded by Anthropic, Block, and OpenAI under the Linux Foundation, is consolidating key AI agent standards, having previously received the “Model Context Protocol (MCP).”
  • Simon Willison demonstrated a practical application of AI by using his datasette-mcp plugin with Claude to query his own blog content and retrieve his past prediction about the “Agent Skills” donation.