Anthropic hands its Agent Skills standard to the Agentic AI Foundation
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Anthropic donated Agent Skills, its lightweight standard for agents to load tasks from folders containing SKILL.md files, to the Agentic AI Foundation. It was one of four new projects the foundation added this week.
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