Agent Plugins

Agent Plugins — Technology. definition: Open, vendor-neutral specification (v1.0.0) packaging Agent Skills and MCP servers into a portable directory: plugin.json reduced to $schema and name, skills/ in Agent Skills format, mcp.json with an explicit type per entry, and a reverse-domain extension namespace per client · governance: Published by a TSC of Core Maintainers from Amazon, Cursor, Microsoft, OpenAI, and Vercel; Google joined the group on August 6, 2026, represented by Kevin Hou. Anthropic, the originator of Agent Skills and MCP, does not appear in the cited maintainer list · limits: v1 defines neither installation, a distribution protocol, a permissions model, sandboxing requirements, trust or provenance verification, nor user experience: these responsibilities fall to the client