Agent Plugins: one folder for skills and MCP servers, minus Claude

If you’ve built an Agent Skill and wired it to an MCP server, you already know the annoying part isn’t the skill. It’s everything around it. The instructions travel fine as a markdown file. The MCP server config does not, because every client wants its own directory layout, its own manifest, its own way of saying “run this process and pass it these environment variables.” Vercel, AWS, GitHub, Microsoft, OpenAI, and the Cursor team shipped Agent Plugins 1....

September 12, 2026 · 5 min · Oleksandr Kulbida