Anthropic Left Out of Alliance
Five tech giants just teamed up to solve AI's biggest developer headache. But one major player is completely missing. ☑️
What the video says
The creator of the Model Context Protocol is missing from the new AI alliance. Amazon, Cursor, Microsoft, OpenAI, and Vercel have teamed up to build AgentPlugins, a new open standard for AI agent extensions.
Until now, every product relied on its own folder structures and setup processes, forcing developers to rebuild extensions for each platform. To solve this, the unified standard establishes a single package format that runs using a simple manifest file called plugin.json.
JSON. Version 1.0.0 supports two main components, which are agent skills for workflows and specialized servers that connect agents to tools.
This specification only covers packaging and discoverability, completely leaving out marketplaces, runtime environments, and permissions. Yet Anthropic is notably absent from this agent plugins effort, despite having created both agent skills and the protocol itself.
