Claude Skills grows: Open Standard, Directory, Org Admin

**Claude Skills** are gaining significant traction since their launch in October, with a milestone of 100k views in one day for the Claude Skills talk, signaling growing adoption and importance. Announcements include org admin support, a new Skills Directory, and the move to an open standard named **Agent Skills**. In frontier model launches, **OpenAI** released **GPT-5.2-Codex**, touted as the best agentic coding model with improvements in native compaction, long-context reliability, and tool-calling, emphasizing real-world security impacts. **Google DeepMind** introduced **Gemini 3 Flash**, focusing on speed as a product feature impacting workflows and user engagement, alongside **FunctionGemma** and **T5Gemma 2**, emphasizing on-device deployment, fine-tuning, and multimodality.