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…