Amazon, Microsoft, and OpenAI Launch Unified Standard for AI Plugins
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Amazon, Microsoft, and OpenAI Launch Unified Standard for AI Plugins
Amazon, Cursor, Microsoft, OpenAI, and Vercel have teamed up to create Agent Plugins, an open standard for AI agent extensions. This standard defines a single package format that allows developers to bundle and reuse extensions across different platforms. Until now, each product relied on its own formats, folder structures, and configuration processes, forcing developers to rebuild their work for each one.
The standard boils down to a directory with a manifest file named plugin.json. Version 1.0.0 supports two components:
- Agent Skills that manage reusable instructions and workflows.
- MCP servers that connect agents to tools and data.
The standard only covers packaging and discoverability. It does not address marketplaces, permissions, or runtime environments. The specification is being developed openly on GitHub.
A notable absence from this group is Anthropic. The company has created both the Model Context Protocol and Agent Skills as open standards and recently added its own plugin system to Cowork, its desktop tool for agentic cognitive work. However, it is not part of the Agent Plugins initiative.
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