Skill.md: An open standard for agent skills

https://www.mintlify.com/blog/skill-md

Comments

moltarJan 22, 2026, 9:43 PM
There was already a “standard” published by Anthropic. How is this different?
skeptruneJan 23, 2026, 12:48 AM
In hindsight the title here is weird. It's meant to refer to the existing standard, but doesn't read that way.
ClassAndBurnJan 22, 2026, 9:05 PM
> Deprecating install.md

> Last Friday we announced install.md and it didn't see much adoption.

With thrash like this why would anyone adopt this for something serious?

It's just an .md file, so the overhead is low. The lack on conviction in your design does not inspire confidence though.

RadiozRadiozJan 22, 2026, 11:11 PM
Yes, this is ridiculous. Far too much chrun in this ecosystem. This decreases my confidence in this Mintlify company; given this, they seem like the type to randomly rugpull when they feel like it.
cyanydeezJan 22, 2026, 11:55 PM
It smells of gambling fallacy. Surely, this time theyll win AI and itll finally find that corner case or function flow
skeptruneJan 23, 2026, 12:52 AM
Yeah, I can understand where you're coming from. I guess there's balance to the extent that being overly stubborn is also not a great thing. Prioritization at an early stage startup is a tough task.
lovichJan 23, 2026, 7:31 AM
There is no world outside of a cult or hype bubble where a 6 day turnaround time from announcement to deprecation is acceptable for a standard.

Standards are something that multiple independent groups can build on and should be somewhat stable.

If this was labeled as experimental than maybe, although its crazy to waste time publishing if you are working on something that rapidly iterating. Its not though, because everyone in this AI boom is rushing to be the winner takes all, and is trying their best to signal to the crowd that they are that winner.

petcatJan 22, 2026, 8:37 PM
I feel like there is a new one of these everyday
numbersJan 22, 2026, 8:47 PM
links are broken to cloudflare and vercel. who's writing these...
christoph-heissJan 22, 2026, 9:10 PM
Well, given the subject ..
skeptruneJan 23, 2026, 12:58 AM
Fixed now!
reddaloJan 22, 2026, 8:59 PM
Phew, at least this is under .well-known/