Kurtis Van Gent describes MCP and Agent Skills joining AAIF

Following Anthropic's donation of the Model Context Protocol and Agent Skills to the Linux Foundation's Agentic AI Foundation, engineer Kurtis Van Gent discusses how these complementary open standards prevent ecosystem fragmentation. MCP standardizes live tool and data connections with a stateless transport model, while Agent Skills utilize progressive disclosure to load procedural domain knowledge on demand. Together, these open standards allow developers to build more reliable and scalable production AI agents across various platforms. Open article →