AI Engineering

Aug 9, 2026 · Artificial Intelligence

Six Major Vendors Release Unified AI Agent Plugin Packaging Standard

Six leading AI companies—Google, Microsoft, OpenAI, Cursor, Vercel, and AWS—have jointly published the Agent Plugins 1.0.0 specification, standardizing the directory layout, plugin.json and mcp.json formats, and discovery rules to enable "write once, run on any client" while highlighting current security limitations.