Agent Skills goes to a neutral foundation
Anthropic donated the Agent Skills standard to the Agentic AI Foundation, and Artificial Analysis revamped its coding agent benchmark, with Claude Code on Opus 5.5 in the lead.
- AnthropicNewsProtocolsAnthropic hands Agent Skills to the Linux Foundation's Agentic AI FoundationThe SKILL.md folder standard, already in 70+ agents including ChatGPT, Cursor and Copilot, moves to neutral governance like MCP did, with a roadmap for versioned releases and security guidance for installing skills.
- Artificial AnalysisNewsBenchmarksArtificial Analysis Coding Agent Index v2.0: Claude Code with Opus 5.5 leadsThe index scores model and harness pairs together across software tasks, terminal use and repo Q&A, and now swaps in Cognition's FrontierCode for DeepSWE. Claude Opus 5.5 in Claude Code tops it at 61.7.