The Agent Plugins cross-agent open standard

Alibaba's Qwen released Qwen-MM-Plugins on August 10, a multimodal plugin collection that packages vision, video, OCR, object grounding, segmentation, speech transcription, and 3D operations as callable tools for agent frameworks including Claude Code, Codex, Qwen Code, and Gemini CLI.

The release is separate from Agent Plugins, the open standard OpenAI and Vercel introduced on August 6 with AWS, Cursor, GitHub, and VS Code to allow a plugin built once to run across any compatible agent client.

Alibaba's Qwen releases Qwen-MM-Plugins, a multimodal plugin collection for agent frameworks

OpenAI and Vercel introduced Agent Plugins on August 6, an open standard developed with AWS, Cursor, GitHub, and VS Code for packaging Agent Skills and MCP server configurations in a shared format, with the stated goal of allowing a plugin built once to work across any compatible agent client.

Cursor added support for the standard at launch, and the announcement described it as extensible, supporting Agent Skills and MCP "with more to come".

Cursor adds support for Agent Plugins