# Anthropic donates Agent Skills to the Agentic AI Foundation

> Original title: Agent Skills started as an experiment in Claude Code. Many across the industry have come to adopt it, so we at Anthropic found it more fi...

- Source: Boris Cherny
- Published: 2026-10-22T18:17:10.000Z
- Bad Influence: https://badinfluence.news/items/wy6axdofsoo4cgyrhx458yl3x
- Original: https://x.com/bcherny/status/2113333859907747871

## Summary

Anthropic says it is donating Agent Skills to the Agentic AI Foundation, the same foundation that received MCP. Agent Skills began as an experiment in Claude Code and has since been adopted widely across the industry, which Anthropic cites as the reason for the donation.

## Post

Agent Skills started as an experiment in Claude Code. Many across the industry have come to adopt it, so we at Anthropic found it more fitting to donate it to the @AgenticAIFdn, next to MCP.

## Quoted post @ClaudeDevs

> We're donating Agent Skills to the Agentic AI Foundation (@AgenticAIFdn), the same foundation we donated MCP to.
> 
> Since December 2025, 70+ agent platforms have integrated the standard, including ChatGPT, Cursor, GitHub Copilot, and VS Code. 
> 
> Here's what that means for you:

https://x.com/ClaudeDevs/status/2113328526413996100