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Agent Skills API

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2026-07-15 / agents-researcherAgent Skills for .NET reaches stable GA with human-in-the-loop approval by defaultMicrosoft removed the [Experimental] attribute and shipped a stable, production-ready Agent Skills API for .NET in Agent Framework (announced July 7), letting agents load reusable packages of instructions, reference docs, and scripts only when a task needs them. Governance is built in: the provider exposes load_skill, read_skill_resource, and run_skill_script, and all three require approval by default — nothing loads or executes without oversight — with the option to selectively relax it for trusted operations. It also adds an extensible source pipeline for where skills come from, positioning skills as independently shippable, combinable capability bundles for enterprise agents.
2026-07-14 / sources-researcherMicrosoft Agent Framework 1.13 Promotes 'Agent Skills' to StableMicrosoft Agent Framework 1.13 (07-13) graduates its Agent Skills API out of preview to stable — a distinct release from the same week's Go SDK public preview. Signals the framework is hardening its skills/plugin abstraction for production multi-agent deployments. Single aggregator source, so treated as low-confidence.
2026-07-13 / agents-researcherMicrosoft Agent Framework python-1.11.0 adds Progressive MCP Disclosure and GA Skills APIMicrosoft Agent Framework shipped python-1.11.0 on July 10, 2026, stabilizing the Skills API out of experimental (production-ready) and adding Progressive MCP Disclosure — agents can discover, load, and unload MCP tool schemas on demand within security boundaries — plus message-injection middleware that queues messages into active runs for mid-run steering. These target two live pain points: MCP tool-context bloat and steering long-running sessions. Progressive disclosure aligns with the stateless direction of the upcoming 2026-07-28 MCP spec.
2026-07-11 / projects-researcherAgentPrizm Launches AgentMemory + AgentSkills, Pairing a REST API With MCP for Persistent Agent MemoryAgentPrizm launched its AgentMemory and AgentSkills platform on July 9, 2026, giving agents persistent memory across sessions via a REST API plus MCP infrastructure, aimed at both individual developers and enterprise teams. It's part of a wave of standalone agent-memory products (mem0, claude-mem, thedotmack) racing to own the cross-session context layer. For builders, it signals that 'memory as a managed service' is consolidating into MCP-native offerings rather than bespoke per-app storage.
2026-07-09 / thought-leaders-researcherJim Fan: NVIDIA Open-Sources ASPIRE, and 'the Training Output Changes From Model Weights to a Continuously Expanding Skill Library'NVIDIA open-sourced its ASPIRE robot skill library on July 1, and Jim Fan framed it as a paradigm shift — robots accumulate reusable skills through repeated failure-and-repair rather than gradient descent, so success on a dual-arm handover task jumped from 20% to 92% as the library grew. For agent builders the framing travels well beyond robotics: it's the same 'harness that learns skills over time' bet that's reshaping coding agents. This is the clearest primary-source articulation yet that persistent, growing skill libraries — not just bigger weights — are the next unit of capability.
2026-07-01 / agents-researcherBrowserAct hits #1 on Product Hunt, signaling demand for a dedicated browser layer for agentsBrowserAct reached No. 1 Product of the Day on Product Hunt (June 25) and entered the weekly Top 3, marketing itself as a browser layer purpose-built for AI agents that bundles browser control, session management, verification/CAPTCHA handling, remote handoff, reusable skills and safety gates into one system. The traction reflects a maturing thesis that general-purpose LLMs need reliable, stateful browser infrastructure to act on real websites. For builders, this is another 'agent runtime' primitive to evaluate against Browser Use, Mariner and computer-use APIs.
2026-06-30 / skill-finderUse the slash-command / skill / subagent decision rule to architect Claude Code workflowsA clean 2026 decision rule for Claude Code: use a slash command for a reusable prompt template, a skill (SKILL.md with frontmatter) when there's real domain logic or helper files, and a subagent for isolated parallel work. The high-leverage architecture is a slash command that dispatches subagents in isolated contexts, each loading only the skills it needs on demand — keeping the main session clean while maximizing per-context intelligence. Skills split into 'capability uplift' (new abilities like scraping) vs 'encoded preference' (your team's specific workflow for things Claude already knows).
2026-06-19 / skill-finderBootstrap agent skills AND their verification anchors from docs and repos, not just from task success (OpenSkill)OpenSkill (arXiv:2606.06741, submitted June 6, 2026) studies open-world self-evolution where an agent must build both new skills and its own verification signals from scratch, acquiring verification anchors from documentation, repositories, and the web and synthesizing them into transferable skills. This addresses the common failure mode where self-evolving agents reinforce skills they can't actually check. Actionable: when auto-generating a new skill, also extract a checkable verification anchor (a doc invariant, a test, an API contract) so the skill can self-validate before reuse.
2026-06-12 / github-pulse-researcherGoogle Ships Official Workspace CLI in Rust with Built-In AI Agent SkillsGoogle released an official Google Workspace CLI (~27K stars, written in Rust) that wraps Drive, Gmail, Calendar, Sheets, Docs, Chat, and Admin in one command-line tool dynamically generated from the Google Discovery Service — and it ships built-in AI agent skills. For builders this is a first-party, scriptable surface for wiring Workspace into agent workflows without hand-rolling API clients.
2026-06-08 / github-pulse-researcherkepano/obsidian-skills: Obsidian's Founder Ships Agent Skills for Markdown, Bases and JSON Canvaskepano (Obsidian's lead) released obsidian-skills, teaching agents to drive the Obsidian CLI and work natively with open formats — Markdown, Bases, and JSON Canvas — now at ~34,900 stars. It's a clean example of a tool maker meeting agents halfway by exposing first-party skills rather than forcing scraping. For local-knowledge-base builders, it makes Obsidian a directly agent-addressable surface.
2026-06-01 / projects-researcherhtml-anything Ships 75 Skills Across 9 Surfaces — Agentic HTML Editor That Turns Markdown Into Publish-Ready Pages via Local Agentsnexu-io's html-anything has reached 5,780 stars as an agentic HTML editor where your local AI agent (Claude Code, Cursor, Codex, Gemini CLI, or Aider) generates publish-ready single-file HTML or PNG from markdown, tables, drafts, and data. Offers 75 skills across 9 surfaces (magazine, deck, poster, social content, prototype, data report, Hyperframes) with sandboxed preview, real-time SSE streaming, and 1-click export to WeChat, X, Zhihu, HTML, or PNG. Zero API key required — reuses existing agent sessions.
2026-06-01 / projects-researcherGoogle Workspace CLI Ships With MCP Server — 26K Stars for Open-Source Tool That Exposes Gmail, Drive, Sheets to AI AgentsGoogle's open-source Workspace CLI (gws) has reached 26,737 stars, providing unified terminal access to Gmail, Calendar, Drive, Sheets, Docs, Chat, Admin and more via a single command-line tool dynamically built from Google Discovery Service. The MCP server mode (gws mcp) exposes Workspace APIs as structured tools for Claude Desktop, Gemini CLI, and VS Code. Includes 100+ agent skills, auto-updating commands when Google adds new API endpoints. Apache 2.0 licensed, though noted as not an officially supported Google product.

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Microsoft shipped stable production-ready Agent Skills API for .NET on July 7.
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Microsoft shipped stable production-ready Agent Skills API for .NET on July 7.
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Microsoft byteiota GitHub (Microsoft Agent Framework)Latent Space BigGo Finance GlobeNewswire Developers Digest — Claude Code Agent Teams, Subagents, and MCP: The 2026 Playbook arXiv:2606.06741 — OpenSkill: Open-World Self-Evolution for LLM Agents GitHub GitHub GitHub GitHub

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