standards
Agent skills quietly became a package format - and GitHub is warning about what that means News
Five agent-skill projects gained a combined 6,634 GitHub stars in a single day on July 24, converging on one portable folder format, while GitHub's own documentation warns that third-party skills may contain prompt injections, hidden instructions, or malicious scripts.
OpenClaw becomes a nonprofit and positions itself as the 'Switzerland of AI' News
OpenClaw, the fastest-growing repository in GitHub history with 4.5 million new agents spawned weekly, became a MIT-licensed 501(c)(3) nonprofit backed by OpenAI, NVIDIA, and Microsoft as a neutral standards layer for AI agents.
Google publishes ARD, an open standard so AI agents can find each other's tools News
Google published the Agentic Resource Discovery specification on June 17, an open standard letting AI agents discover and verify tools and other agents across companies -- backed by Microsoft, Nvidia, Salesforce, GitHub, Hugging Face and others.
C2PA Content Credentials Tool
Open standard for cryptographically signed provenance metadata in media files, now used by Claude to tag generated images and by camera makers and photo editors to record where a file came from. Any C2PA-aware tool can read the credential.
Agentic Resource Discovery (ARD) Tool
Google's open specification and manifest format (ai-catalog.json) that lets AI agents discover and verify tools and other agents across organizations -- a directory layer for the agent web, backed by Microsoft, Nvidia, Salesforce, GitHub, and Hugging Face.