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The Agentic AI Foundation (AAIF) is a directed fund under the Linux Foundation created to provide vendor-neutral governance for open technologies used by AI agents. Anthropic announced the foundation on December 9, 2025 while donating the Model Context Protocol to it. Anthropic said the foundation was co-founded by Anthropic, Block, and OpenAI, with support from Google, Microsoft, AWS, Cloudflare, and Bloomberg.[1]
The AAIF's stated goal is to help agentic AI evolve transparently, collaboratively, and in the public interest through open standards, shared development, and community building.[1][2]
According to Anthropic and the Linux Foundation, the foundation launched with three flagship projects:[1][3]
| Project | Contributing organization | Role |
|---|---|---|
| MCP | Anthropic | Open protocol for connecting AI systems to tools and external systems |
| goose | Block | Open-source agent framework |
| AGENTS.md | OpenAI | Standard place for project instructions for coding agents |
Anthropic said the MCP maintainers would continue to govern the protocol in a community-driven way after the donation, rather than handing control to a single vendor.[1]
The AAIF was created after rapid growth in agent tooling and interoperability standards. Anthropic's announcement said MCP had reached more than 10,000 public MCP servers in its first year and had been adopted by products such as ChatGPT, Cursor, Gemini, Microsoft Copilot, and Visual Studio Code.[1]
The Linux Foundation described the new foundation as a neutral home for open standards and frameworks for next-generation AI agents. Later Linux Foundation communications also tied the AAIF to a growing events and membership program, including MCP Dev Summits and broader AAIF conferences in 2026.[3][4]
The official AAIF website describes the foundation as a home for open, community-driven agentic AI projects and highlights projects, governance, events, and technical committees. As of April 2026 the site lists MCP, goose, and AGENTS.md as key projects in the foundation's ecosystem.[2]