Google Joins Agent Plugins as Core Maintainer Alongside OpenAI, Microsoft, Amazon
Google's participation as a core maintainer adds weight to Agent Plugins as a cross-industry standard for packaging AI agent capabilities, with Google already supporting the format in Agents CLI and Data Agent Kit.
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Google has joined the open specification Agent Plugins 1.0.0 as a core maintainer, alongside Amazon, Cursor, Microsoft, OpenAI, and Vercel. The specification standardizes how AI agent skills and MCP servers are bundled, allowing different AI clients to load the same package. Google will support the format in its own products.
Google is now a core maintainer of Agent Plugins 1.0.0, the open specification for bundling AI agent skills and MCP servers. The specification was originally published by a Technical Steering Committee made up of Amazon, Cursor, Microsoft, OpenAI, and Vercel. Google's Kevin Hou, a senior staff engineer at Google DeepMind, will serve as a core maintainer.
Agent Plugins standardizes the directory structure and configuration files for packages that contain multiple skills and MCP servers, so compatible AI clients can load them without re-creating packages. Google's Agents CLI and Data Agent Kit already support the format, and the company plans to expand support to more of its products.
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