Introducing Agent Plugins 1.0.0

Agent Plugins 1.0.0 is now available. It is an open, vendor-neutral standard for packaging Agent Skills and MCP servers into portable plugins. Compatible agent clients can discover and load them. Agent Plugins defines a common format: a root plugin.json manifest, plus fixed locations for portable components. Each client keeps control of installation, distribution, policy, user experience, and client-specific capabilities. At launch, Agent Plugins is supported across the following clients: ChatGPT and Codex Cursor GitHub Copilot Kiro VS Code Read the specification and implementation guides , learn more in the announcement post, and follow our guide to build a plugin on the new standard. Read more