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google/skills sits at 16,460 stars, Apache-2.0, +327 on August 8's trending page, organized into three product families with a .claude-plugin directory and plugins tree. August 5-7 commits show real curation: a migrated and validated GKE TPU dynamic-slices monitoring skill, a gcloud device-run update, and a new workflow section documenting the shared responsibility model. That last one matters most if you're shipping vendor skills to production, because Google is drawing an explicit line between what the skill guarantees and what you own.
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Six clients. One manifest. Zero vendor lock. Vercel published Agent Plugins 1.0.0 on August 6, an openly licensed spec that bundles Agent Skills and MCP servers behind a single portable manifest. The shape is deliberately boring: a plugin.json requiring only schemaVersion and...
Financial services went to preview August 25 with CME Group and Deutsche Bank as design partners, built around a managed Financial Research agent with 50+ reusable skills and 13 connectors into market data, news feeds, regulatory filings and internal databases, exposed over A2...
A spec is a press release until someone who didn't write it implements it. GitHub made Agent Plugins 1.0 generally available on August 12 across VS Code, Copilot CLI, the Copilot SDK, and the Copilot app on all plans. The spec, published August 6, was co-authored by AWS, Anysp...
Agent Framework Python 1.14.0 landed August 13 with a native Mistral chat client, workflow checkpoint/resume in AG-UI, and experimental AGENT-HOOKS-0.1 enforcement behind an opt-in extra. The spec is Apache-2.0, stewarded by a UK company, last pushed July 7, sitting at 2 GitHu...
google/skills took +305 today, Apache-2.0 Python, created March 31, pushed August 6. It packages skills for Google products and technologies, putting a vendor's own bundle alongside the community collections that dominated this category. The pattern worth watching: when a plat...
Three things happened this month that only make sense together. Agent Plugins 1.0 shipped co-signed by six competitors: AWS, Anysphere, Microsoft, OpenAI, Vercel and Google (GitHub Changelog). It makes skills-plus-MCP bundles portable across clients. OpenAI's August 11 Codex c...
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