Agentic AI Foundation

The Agentic AI Foundation (AAIF) is a directed fund under the Linux Foundation, formed on December 9, 2025 to give open agentic AI projects a neutral home.¹ It was co-founded by Anthropic, Block and OpenAI, which contributed its three founding projects: Anthropic’s Model Context Protocol (MCP), Block’s goose agent framework and OpenAI’s AGENTS.md convention for instructing coding agents.¹² Its founding platinum members were Amazon Web Services, Anthropic, Block, Bloomberg, Cloudflare, Google, Microsoft and OpenAI.¹ Anthropic said MCP’s governance model would stay unchanged, with the project’s maintainers continuing to run it.²

Its membership grew to 146 organizations by February 24, 2026, when it named David Nalley of AWS as governing board chair,³ and to 247 by August 13, 2026, with new members including Alibaba, Visa and Wells Fargo; that announcement quotes Mazin Gilbert as the foundation’s executive director.⁴ Google’s Agent2Agent Protocol (A2A), until then a separate Linux Foundation project, joined as a hosted project on August 17, 2026.⁵ As of October 19, 2026, the AAIF’s projects page lists six projects: MCP, goose, AGENTS.md, agentgateway, A2A and Agent Router.⁶

Beyond the projects, the AAIF runs working groups on agent reliability, agentic commerce, governance and regulatory mapping, agent identity and trust, observability and security,⁷ areas covered on MetaPrompt in How the Model Context Protocol Works and the agent identity and trust standards tracker.