OpenAI and four rivals just agreed on one standard for AI agents - The Next Web
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- OpenAI and four rivals agreed on one open standard for AI agents called Agent Plugins, designed to package skills, tools, and more into agent workflows (per Google blog).
- Microsoft's VS Code Agent Plugins now go cross-client under the new open standard, while Google and AWS surface as fellow participants in the cross-platform push.
Why it matters: When competing AI vendors — OpenAI, Google, Microsoft, AWS — align on a shared standard for agent interoperability, developers gain portability across clients instead of being locked to a single vendor's agent ecosystem.
