A common format for packaging Agent Skills and MCP servers into distributable plugins

Today, Agent Plugins 1.0.0 is publicly available. Agent Plugins is an open, vendor-neutral standard for plugins that extend AI agents.

Agent Skills provide reusable instructions and resources for AI agents. MCP servers connect agents to tools and services. Both can be reused across clients, but clients often package and discover them differently.

Agent Plugins gives compatible clients a common format: a directory with a plugin.json manifest and fixed locations for its components. The format is intentionally small and easy to implement, and it leaves installation, distribution, policy, user experience, and client-specific capabilities to each client.

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Extension authors often adapt the same component to several client formats.…