ai-agent

Agent Skills is an open standard for packaging reusable agent capabilities (instructions + resources) in a folder that tools can discover and load on demand. The format was originally developed by Anthropic and released publicly as an open specification in October 2025 (announcement, engineering blog). Treat the spec as actively evolving: implementations and best practices may change as more clients adopt it. Canonical definition: A simple, open format for giving agents new capabilities and expertise. ...

A list of emerging open standards for AI agents. Agentic AI Foundation (AAIF) Standards The Agentic AI Foundation is a Linux Foundation project with founding contributions from Anthropic, Block, and OpenAI. Model Context Protocol (MCP) – Anthropic Open standard API for connecting AI agents to data sources and tools. Acts as a “USB-C port for AI” to standardize context delivery. AGENTS.md – OpenAI Markdown-based convention for providing project-specific instructions to coding agents. Used by 60k+ open-source projects. ...