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Agent Plugins package your skills, tools, and more- Google Developers Blog
Google Developers · Published · 3 min read
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- What happened
- Google joined the Agent Plugins 1.0.0 specification as core maintainer, a vendor-neutral standard for packaging AI agent skills and MCP servers into portable plugins.
- Why it matters
- Matters for engineers building reusable agent components who want to ship across multiple clients without forking code or maintaining duplicate manifests.
- Watch out
- Agent Plugins defines only packaging format; installation, distribution, permissions, sandboxing, and trust verification are deliberately left to individual clients to implement.
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