Anthropic Opens the Agent Skills Standard for AI Agents

Published on January 05, 2026 | Translated from Spanish
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Anthropic Opens the Agent Skills Standard for AI Agents

The company Anthropic, known for creating the Claude model, has made public a new framework called Agent Skills. This standard defines a set of fundamental capabilities that programmers can use to build artificial intelligence agents. The vision is that it will be widely adopted so that different AI systems can work together seamlessly. 🤖

Fundamental Skills for Building Agents

The Agent Skills standard specifies a series of essential functions that serve as basic components. Instead of programming each capability from scratch, developers can integrate these predefined modules to assemble more complex and specialized agents. This greatly speeds up the process of creating powerful AI assistants.

Key Skills Set:
  • Web Search: Ability to navigate and extract information from the internet.
  • Query Databases: Skill to interact with and retrieve data from structured storage systems.
  • Execute Code: Functionality to process and run scripts or programs.
  • Use Software Tools: Integration with specific applications and utilities to perform tasks.
By offering these functions as basic components, Anthropic seeks to simplify the process of creating complex AI agents.

Promoting a Common Language in the Industry

By publishing this standard openly, Anthropic hopes that other companies and projects will adopt it. The ultimate goal is to establish a shared technical foundation that allows agents from different origins and platforms to understand each other and cooperate. This could unlock new scenarios where multiple specialized AI assistants collaborate to solve complex problems, seamlessly passing tasks between them.

Benefits of Interoperability:
  • Accelerate Development: Teams don't waste time reinventing basic functions.
  • Facilitate Integration: Agents from different providers can connect more easily.
  • Enable Collaboration: Ecosystems can be formed where diverse agents work together.

A Future of Cooperating Agents

The Agent Skills initiative represents a significant step toward a more connected and efficient AI ecosystem. By standardizing how agents perceive the world and act in it, not only is programming them simplified, but the foundations are laid for large-scale automated collaboration. The challenge now will be to see how the industry responds and whether this framework becomes the common language that Anthropic envisions. The path to AI assistants that truly work as a team is clearer. ⚙️