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Agent Plugins is a new open, vendor-neutral standard for packaging Agent Skills and their MCP dependencies into one portable folder, with Google joining as a core maintainer. The article details how the standard simplifies distribution, its manifest requirements, and its compatibility across clients.

The Agent Plugins standard, backed by OpenAI, Cursor, Google, Vercel, and others, is released as a way to package agent skills with MCP connectors for easy installation on any harness. The author notes it is mostly packaging rather than a breakthrough, but important for agent distribution.

Vercel announces Agent Plugins 1.0.0, an open, vendor-neutral standard for packaging Agent Skills and MCP servers into distributable plugins, giving AI agents a common format for discovery and loading.

OpenAI announces Agent Plugins, an open standard developed with AWS, Cursor, GitHub, Code, and Vercel to package Agent Skills and support MCP server configurations, enabling plugins to work across compatible agent clients. Matt Pocock reacts enthusiastically and expects a skills plugin soon.

Vercel and partners introduce Agent Plugins, an open standard for extending AI agents with skills and MCP servers, now supported by Cursor.

A security researcher discusses how LLM agents cannot distinguish between user instructions and text in documents, introducing AVE, an open standard for naming AI agent vulnerabilities that is cross-referenced with OWASP and MITRE frameworks.

Iryx Systems announces the development of an open standard for spatial rights and the first compliant device, Iryx AETHER, to provide machine-readable rules for robots in physical spaces. The project is pre-pilot with a provisional patent filed.

The tweet discusses the concept of self-learning as a competitive moat, highlighting browser activity and agent traces as key data sources, and introduces AG-UI, an open standard for capturing user-agent interactions to improve products.

Patrick Collison announces Open Standard, a new stablecoin launched in partnership with Visa, Mastercard, Coinbase, Cloudflare, Google, and others, designed for scale.

A comprehensive guide explaining how to create reusable skills for AI coding agents, covering the SKILL.md standard adopted by major tools like OpenAI Codex and GitHub Copilot, with benchmark data showing curated skills improve pass rates by 16 points.

The Linux Foundation announces the Agent Name Service (ANS), an open standard leveraging DNS to provide verifiable identities for AI agents, enabling trust and interoperability.

A new protocol called Agentic Resource Discovery (ARD), backed by Google, Microsoft, Cisco, Nvidia, and Salesforce, aims to standardize how AI agents discover and use tools and services across enterprise systems, enabling agents to autonomously find and query resources from different silos.

Google announced the Open Knowledge Format, an open standard based on Karpathy's LLM wiki concept, designed to provide context for AI agents using simple markdown files.

The LF AI & Data Foundation has formed a working group to develop DocLang, an AI-friendly document format backed by IBM, NVIDIA, Red Hat, ABBYY, HumanSignal, and Forgis, aiming to solve the problem of existing formats like PDF and HTML being ill-suited for AI parsing.

LangChain announced SmithDB, a distributed database for agent observability, Context Hub for managing agent context with an open memory standard, and Deep Agents v0.6 at Interrupt 2026, alongside enterprise case studies and keynotes by Andrew Ng and Harrison Chase.

OpenAI introduces a new generation of apps in ChatGPT with an open-source Apps SDK built on the Model Context Protocol, allowing developers to reach 800+ million users. Initial partner apps from Booking.com, Canva, Coursera, Figma, Expedia, Spotify, and Zillow are available today with more launching later this year.

AWS, Cursor, GitHub, Microsoft, OpenAI, and Vercel jointly launched Agent Plugins—an open, vendor-neutral packaging format for agent extensions, designed to unify the packaging and discovery of skills and MCP servers, promoting reuse across products.

Google Stitch Design Skills is a collection of agent skills and plugins for Google Stitch, following the Agent Skills open standard, enabling integration with coding agents like Codex, Claude Code, and Cursor. It provides plugins for design, build, and utilities.

Anthropic introduces 'Agent Skills' as an open standard for equipping AI agents with domain-specific expertise via composable directories of instructions and scripts. This framework enhances the portability and specialization of agents like Claude Code without requiring custom model training.