The non-profit Linux Foundation has formed the Agentic AI Foundation (AAIF) with the support of three leading tech firms supporting inaugural projects to advance innovation in open source AI: Anthropic’s Model Context Protocol (MCP), Block’s goose, and OpenAI’s AGENTS.md. “The advent of agentic AI represents a new era of autonomous decision making and coordination across AI systems that will transform and revolutionize entire industries,” the Linux Foundation says, emphasizing the AAIF as “a neutral, open foundation to ensure this critical capability evolves transparently, collaboratively” that supports open source.

These first three projects “lay the groundwork for a shared ecosystem of tools, standards, and community-driven innovation,” per the Linux Foundation announcement.

“We are seeing AI enter a new phase, as conversational systems shift to autonomous agents that can work together,” says Linux Foundation Executive Director Jim Zemlin, adding that within the past year “MCP, AGENTS.md and goose have become essential tools for developers building this new class of agentic technologies.”

Wired reports the three companies are “transferring ownership” of the three widely used agentic technologies to the Linux Foundation, explaining Anthropic’s MCP “allows agents to connect and interact,” while OpenAI’s Agents.md “lets programs and websites specify rules for coding agents,” and Goose provides “a framework for building agents developed by Block.”

The technologies were “already free to use, but through the new foundation it will be possible for others to contribute to their development,” Wired adds.

Creation of the AAIF reflects a development shift from AI chatbot systems that answer questions to greater use of independent agents, which can act on behalf of users. “This kind of agentic AI promises a potentially lucrative new paradigm in which AI agents use the web and negotiate with one another to power all sorts of applications,” Wired says.

The new group is aimed at helping to prevent “AI agents from splintering into a mess of incompatible, locked-down products,” TechCrunch summarizes, noting that the AAIF “will act as a neutral home for open source projects related to AI agents.”

Other AAIF members include AWS, Bloomberg, Cloudflare and Google, “signaling an industry-level push for shared guardrails so that AI agents can be trustworthy at scale,” TechCrunch notes.

Related:
OpenAI Co-Founds the Agentic AI Foundation Under the Linux Foundation, OpenAI, 12/9/25
Donating the Model Context Protocol and Establishing the Agentic AI Foundation, Anthropic, 12/9/25