# Anthropic Gives Agent Skills Standard to Linux Foundation Group

> Anthropic is donating Agent Skills to the Agentic AI Foundation, giving the format a neutral home under the Linux Foundation. More than 70 platforms have integrated it, the company says.

Oossa · 2026-10-22 · https://oossa.com/en/anthropic-gives-agent-skills-standard-to-linux-foundation-group

Anthropic says it is donating Agent Skills, a format for giving AI agents task-specific instructions and materials, to the Agentic AI Foundation (AAIF), under the Linux Foundation. The donation includes the name, logo, GitHub organization and agentskills.io domain; developers can still use or contribute to the standard without joining the foundation.

Anthropic says more than 70 platforms—including ChatGPT, Cursor, GitHub Copilot and VS Code—have integrated Agent Skills, with nearly 280 million installations. Engineers from Anthropic, Google, OpenAI and other companies will maintain it as individuals. The proposed next steps include versioned releases, a process for proposing changes and security guidance.

## The facts

- Anthropic says 1 million Agent Skills have been published and nearly 280 million installed.
- David Soria Parra and Mahesh Murag will serve as lead maintainers.

## Why it matters

For developers building skills across agent platforms, the transfer puts the standard under a foundation rather than one company; how the proposed governance and security guidance will work remains to be decided.

## Sources & references

1. [Donating Agent Skills to the Agentic AI Foundation](https://www.anthropic.com/news/donating-agent-skills-to-the-agentic-ai-foundation) – Anthropic
2. [Donating Agent Skills to the Agentic AI Foundation](https://simonwillison.net/2026/Oct/22/donating-agent-skills/) – Simon Willison, 2026-10-22

Last updated: 2026-10-22