Donating Agent Skills to the Agentic AI Foundation
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).
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Key points
- Donating Agent Skills to the Agentic AI Foundation
- I'm pleased to note I called this one last December, when Anthropic first declared skills to be an "open standard":
- 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
Sources (1)
- [1]Donating Agent Skills to the Agentic AI FoundationSimon Willison's Weblog · Oct 22, 06:09 PM
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).
Donating Agent Skills to the Agentic AI Foundation
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