AI & agents
Agent standards MCP and Agent Skills move under neutral foundation
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- Google Open Source Blog
Summary
On November 11, Google's Open Source Blog published an interview on the governance of MCP, the agent connectivity standard, and Agent Skills, the procedural knowledge standard. After Anthropic donated both to the Linux Foundation's AAIF, engineers from Google, Anthropic, and OpenAI now co-maintain them under vendor-neutral governance, likened to the CNCF's role for Kubernetes. The MCP specification moved to a stateless architecture with its July 28, 2026 version, improving horizontal scalability. The post frames the shift as the industry prioritizing interoperability over competing standards.
Why it matters for our work
When open standards for tool connections and work procedures live in a neutral foundation, different agent platforms can reuse the same tools and skills. Lower lock-in costs make it easier for teams to swap and combine agent tooling.
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