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Anthropic donates the Agent Skills open standard to the Agentic AI Foundation and says 70 platforms have integrated it, after donating MCP to the AAIF in 2025 (Anthropic)
https://www.anthropic.com/news/donating-agent-skills-to-the-agentic-ai-foundation

Donating Agent Skills to the Agentic AI Foundation
We’re donating Agent Skills, the open standard that gives AI agents specialized knowledge and workflows, to the Agentic AI Foundation. More than 70 agent platforms, including ChatGPT, Cursor, GitHub Copilot, and VS Code, have integrated Agent Skills since we published the standard in December 2025.

UGH.
So someone internally raised the fact "hey, we have #PHP on <one of our devices>" and so technically one of our products is affected and now I have EVERY exec LOSING THEIR SHIT and asking for status updates every 30 minutes im like hold the crap on, I'm still doing the technical assessment, and they're like "Copilot said to do this" or "Claude suggested&quo…

VW gibt 330.000 seiner 657.000 Beschäftigten Copilot, damit sie „effizienter arbeiten“, so KI-Chefin Sophie Vassarotti. Zur selben Zeit plant der Konzern den Abbau von bis zu 110.000 Stellen, Tarifverträge sind schon gekündigt, berichtet Golem. Für manche heißt effizienter arbeiten dann wohl: effizient gehen. #DigitaleSuveränität #VW #Copilot #KI https://www.golem.de/news/copilot-330-000-volkswagen-angestellte-bekommen-microsofts-ki-2610-214347.html

Kundin kauft neuen HP Drucker. Erreicht mich nicht. Fragt Copilot nach einer HP Hotline. Bekommt Nummer. Ruft dort an. Mensch mit indischem Akzent geht ran. Lässt Fernwartungssoftware "Ultraviewer" herunterladen. Meckert, dass der ganze PC ja verseucht sei. Lädt "Driver Optimizer", "Total AV" und noch einiges mehr runter. Die Tools zeigen, wie schlimm doch alles ist. Er öffnet eine Webseite, auf der sie Kreditkartendaten angeben soll.
Toll, alles dank Copi…

Interview on Civility Unbound
The idea of civility goes back to classical Rome and the ways in which citizens engaged one another within the republic. The term itself is often used in a number of different ways, reflecting expected behavior, particularly in public spaces, and as a mechanism to manage human interaction. But civility and the use of this idea often shape hierarchical relationships within society and within politics and may define who is to be included…
https://husseinrashid.com/2026/10/12/interview-on-civility-unbound.html/

The existential question: can you mix different coffee beans?
#blogging #coffee

It was good, until it wasn't - JazMat
1: I turned on the individual email subscription on the Portuguese blog, but have left the weekly digest on this one. Less work that way, I guess. But I...

RE: https://mastodon.social/@openlink/117282933854561040
AI Agents need governed access to live systems of record, in a loosely coupled fashion using open standards — not more DBMS-specific wiring that creates compounding technical debt and more data silos.

I've been working with #kiro a lot lately at work. I had to give it some steering files to make it less annoying to use. They will work with #copilot too.
https://unixorn.github.io/post/ai/2026-09-08-some-useful-ai-prompts/

So I forked #nitter on @… but I can't figure out how to get any of Copilot's suggestions for CodeQL warnings about workflow permissions to pass CI properly:
https://github.com/cooljeanius/nitter/pulls?q=sort:updated-desc is:pr state:open

Uh, I do NOT want this. I do not want this AT ALL. No option to opt out on Tahoe 26.6.2.
"Local files support for Excel Agent.
Added support for Local files for Excel Agent in modern Excel workbooks stored on your device, giving you the flexibility to query Copilot Chat no matter where your files are located."