Anthropic keep “standardizing” the world of agents. Now they’ve released the Agent Skills standard — a standard for describing individual areas of agent expertise: https://agentskills.io/home

  • Domain knowledge: package specialized knowledge into reusable instructions — from legal due diligence processes to data analysis pipelines.
  • New capabilities: give agents new capabilities (for example, creating presentations, creating MCP servers, analyzing datasets).
  • Repeatable workflows: turn multi-step tasks into sequential and verifiable workflows.
  • Interoperability: use the same skill across different skill-compatible agent products.

Already supported in: OpenCode, Cursor, Amp, Letta, Goose, GitHub, VS Code, Claude Code, Claude

Now if only someone would ship something for conditional rules…