In October, Anthropic launched Agent Skills as a way to teach its Claude service repeatable workflows. Building those skills involved, for the most part, using Claude itself and the interactive “skill-creator” skill, which generated the folder structure and a SKILL.md file. Today, Anthropic is launching the Agent Skills spec as an open standard in a move that feels similar to how it turned its Model Context Protocol (MCP) into the de facto standard for how AI agents use tools today.
“With the open Agent Skills standard, we’re…
