# Anthropic donates Agent Skills standard to Agentic AI Foundation

> **Key takeaway:** Anthropic is moving its Agent Skills standard to the Linux Foundation-hosted Agentic AI Foundation to ensure vendor neutrality.

**Published:** 2026-10-22T18:09:56+00:00 
**Source:** Simon Willison Web & Open Source 
**Category:** software-engineering 
**Canonical URL:** https://fosswire.org/news/anthropic-donates-agent-skills-standard-to-agentic-ai-founda.html 

## Summary
Anthropic has announced the donation of its Agent Skills standard to the Agentic AI Foundation (AAIF). The AAIF is a Linux Foundation project co-founded by Anthropic, Block, and OpenAI. This move follows the previous transfer of the Model Context Protocol (MCP) to the same foundation.

## Standardization of AI Agent capabilities
- The transfer aims to keep Agent Skills **open, community-driven, and vendor-neutral**.
- The Agentic AI Foundation (AAIF) operates under the **Linux Foundation**.
- This follows the precedent set by the **Model Context Protocol (MCP)**, which is also hosted by the AAIF.

## Why it matters
By moving these standards to a neutral foundation, the industry moves toward interoperable AI agent capabilities that are not controlled by a single provider.