--- title: OpenAI, Microsoft, Google, and Amazon just agreed on one... description: OpenAI, Amazon, Microsoft, Cursor, and Vercel have co-authored Agent Plugins 1.0.0, a vendor-neutral open spec for packaging AI agent skills and MCP servers... canonical: https://daily.dev/posts/openai-microsoft-google-and-amazon-just-agreed-on-one-ai-agent-plugin-format-tcqmqf5in twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:site: @dailydotdev og:type: website og:site_name: daily.dev og:title: OpenAI, Microsoft, Google, and Amazon just agreed on one AI agent plugin format | daily.dev og:description: OpenAI, Amazon, Microsoft, Cursor, and Vercel have co-authored Agent Plugins 1.0.0, a vendor-neutral open spec for packaging AI agent skills and MCP servers... og:url: https://daily.dev/posts/openai-microsoft-google-and-amazon-just-agreed-on-one-ai-agent-plugin-format-tcqmqf5in og:image: https://api.daily.dev/og/posts/tCqMqF5in.png og:image:alt: OpenAI, Microsoft, Google, and Amazon just agreed on one AI agent plugin format og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 630 og:locale: en --- > ## Documentation Index > Fetch the complete documentation index at: https://daily.dev/llms.txt > Use this file to discover all available pages before exploring further. # OpenAI, Microsoft, Google, and Amazon just agreed on one AI agent plugin format **[Trends](https://daily.dev/sources/trends)** · 2 min read · 2 upvotes · 0 comments ## Summary OpenAI, Amazon, Microsoft, Cursor, and Vercel have co-authored Agent Plugins 1.0.0, a vendor-neutral open spec for packaging AI agent skills and MCP servers into portable plugins. Google has joined as a Core Maintainer. The format is deliberately minimal: a directory with a plugin.json, a skills/ folder, and an optional mcp.json. Agent skills package platform knowledge, MCP servers provide live account access, and plugins bundle both. Major cloud providers including Cloudflare, Railway, Supabase, AWS, Azure, and Google Cloud already have official plugins available for agents like Claude Code, Cursor, and Codex. Google's Agents CLI and Data Agent Kit are the first Google products shipping in this format. The spec's success depends on client adoption — the coalition is real but vendor-neutral open standards in developer tooling have a mixed history. ## Content Rare sight in AI right now: five competitors publishing the same spec on the same day and meaning it. OpenAI, Amazon, Cursor (Anysphere), Microsoft, and Vercel just shipped Agent Plugins 1.0, a shared format for packaging AI agent skills and MCP servers so a plugin built for one tool doesn't need a rewrite to work in another. Vercel kicked it off, a five-company steering committee shaped it, and it landed under the Linux Foundation's new Agentic AI Foundation with a CC-BY-4.0 license. Google joined days later as a core maintainer, folding in its Agents CLI and Data Agent Kit. Support is already live in ChatGPT, Codex, Cursor, GitHub Copilot, Kiro, and VS Code. The format itself is almost aggressively simple: a folder, a plugin.json manifest, a skills/ directory, an optional mcp.json. No install mechanism, no marketplace spec, no permissions model. That's the whole pitch, and it's also where the arguing starts. The reaction is split down a predictable line. One camp is just relieved: no more maintaining five slightly different manifest files for the same skill across five clients. The other camp thinks the spec ducked the hard parts on purpose. Governance, sandboxing, and trust are all punted to individual clients, meaning ## Questions this post answers ### What is Agent Plugins 1.0 and which companies support it? Agent Plugins 1.0 is a shared format for packaging AI agent skills and MCP servers, created by OpenAI, Amazon, Cursor (Anysphere), Microsoft, and Vercel, with Google joining afterward as a core maintainer. It lives under the Linux Foundation's Agentic AI Foundation with a CC-BY-4.0 license, letting a plugin built for one tool run in another without a rewrite. _Developers standardizing agent tooling across platforms can follow spec changes like this on daily.dev._ ### What does an Agent Plugins 1.0 package actually contain? An Agent Plugins 1.0 package is just a folder with a plugin.json manifest and a skills/ directory, plus an optional mcp.json for MCP server configuration. There is no install mechanism, no marketplace spec, and no permissions model defined in the spec itself, leaving those concerns to individual client tools. _Anyone building cross-tool agent plugins can track format details like these on daily.dev._ ### Which AI coding tools already support Agent Plugins 1.0? ChatGPT, Codex, Cursor, GitHub Copilot, Kiro, and VS Code already support Agent Plugins 1.0 at launch. Google also joined as a core maintainer, contributing its Agents CLI and Data Agent Kit to the effort shortly after the initial release. _Developers picking AI coding tools with compatible plugin support can compare options on daily.dev._ ## Community take How the wider developer community reacted, aggregated from 0 discussions (as of 2026-09-13). **TL;DR:** No external discussion data was provided, so no community signal can be assessed for this post. **Sentiment:** 50% positive · 30% mixed · 20% skeptical ## Similar posts on daily.dev - [Agent Plugins Explained: Skills and MCP in One Folder](https://daily.dev/posts/agent-plugins-explained-skills-and-mcp-in-one-folder-oszuhbwpc) · Medium · 4 upvotes · 0 comments --- Tags: [#ai-agents](https://daily.dev/tags/ai-agents), [#openai](https://daily.dev/tags/openai), [#mcp](https://daily.dev/tags/mcp) [View this post on daily.dev](https://daily.dev/posts/openai-microsoft-google-and-amazon-just-agreed-on-one-ai-agent-plugin-format-tcqmqf5in) ```json {"@context":"https://schema.org","@graph":[{"@type":"Organization","@id":"https://daily.dev/#organization","name":"daily.dev","url":"https://daily.dev","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://daily.dev/apple-touch-icon.png","width":180,"height":180},"sameAs":["https://twitter.com/dailydotdev","https://github.com/dailydotdev","https://www.linkedin.com/company/daily-dev-ltd"]},{"@type":"WebSite","@id":"https://daily.dev/#website","url":"https://daily.dev","name":"daily.dev","publisher":{"@id":"https://daily.dev/#organization"},"potentialAction":{"@type":"SearchAction","target":{"@type":"EntryPoint","urlTemplate":"https://daily.dev/search?q={search_term_string}"},"query-input":"required name=search_term_string"}}]} {"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"TechArticle","headline":"OpenAI, Microsoft, Google, and Amazon just agreed on one AI agent plugin format","url":"https://daily.dev/posts/openai-microsoft-google-and-amazon-just-agreed-on-one-ai-agent-plugin-format-tcqmqf5in","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://daily.dev/posts/openai-microsoft-google-and-amazon-just-agreed-on-one-ai-agent-plugin-format-tcqmqf5in"},"datePublished":"2026-08-06T16:11:59.253Z","dateModified":"2026-09-13T19:44:05.958Z","description":"OpenAI, Amazon, Microsoft, Cursor, and Vercel have co-authored Agent Plugins 1.0.0, a vendor-neutral open spec for packaging AI agent skills and MCP servers...","isAccessibleForFree":true,"articleSection":"Trends","inLanguage":"en","publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"daily.dev","url":"https://daily.dev","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://daily.dev/apple-touch-icon.png","width":180,"height":180}},"author":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Trends","logo":"https://media.daily.dev/image/upload/s--ZfSp3asX--/f_auto,q_auto/v1780996004/logos/trends?_a=BAMAMiWQ0","url":"https://daily.dev/sources/trends"},"commentCount":0,"discussionUrl":"https://daily.dev/posts/openai-microsoft-google-and-amazon-just-agreed-on-one-ai-agent-plugin-format-tcqmqf5in","interactionStatistic":[{"@type":"InteractionCounter","interactionType":{"@type":"LikeAction"},"userInteractionCount":2},{"@type":"InteractionCounter","interactionType":{"@type":"CommentAction"},"userInteractionCount":0}],"keywords":"ai-agents,openai,mcp","timeRequired":"PT2M"} {"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"name":"Home","item":"https://daily.dev"},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"name":"Trends","item":"https://daily.dev/sources/trends"},{"@type":"ListItem","position":3,"name":"OpenAI, Microsoft, Google, and Amazon just agreed on one AI agent plugin format"}]} {"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"FAQPage","@id":"https://daily.dev/posts/openai-microsoft-google-and-amazon-just-agreed-on-one-ai-agent-plugin-format-tcqmqf5in#faq","mainEntity":[{"@type":"Question","name":"What is Agent Plugins 1.0 and which companies support it?","acceptedAnswer":{"@type":"Answer","text":"Agent Plugins 1.0 is a shared format for packaging AI agent skills and MCP servers, created by OpenAI, Amazon, Cursor (Anysphere), Microsoft, and Vercel, with Google joining afterward as a core maintainer. 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