# Donation of Agent Skills to the Agentic AI Foundation

Anthropic has donated Agent Skills, the open standard it published in December 2025, to the Agentic AI Foundation under the Linux Foundation, transferring the name, logo, GitHub organization and agentskills.io domain. A skill is a folder holding a SKILL.md file that teaches an agent a specific task or domain; the format grew out of Claude Code, which handled general knowledge work but often lacked the procedural knowledge real business tasks need. Since the October 2025 launch, one million skills have been published and installed nearly 280 million times, and more than 70 agent platforms including ChatGPT, Cursor, GitHub Copilot and VS Code have integrated the standard.

Anthropic has donated Agent Skills, the open standard it published in December 2025, to the Agentic AI Foundation under the Linux Foundation, transferring the name, logo, GitHub organization and agentskills.io domain. A skill is a folder holding a SKILL.md file that teaches an agent a specific task or domain; the format grew out of Claude Code, which handled general knowledge work but often lacked the procedural knowledge real business tasks need. Since the October 2025 launch, one million skills have been published and installed nearly 280 million times, and more than 70 agent platforms including ChatGPT, Cursor, GitHub Copilot and VS Code have integrated the standard.