Governance
Agentic AI Foundation
The Linux Foundation announced the Agentic AI Foundation (AAIF) on December 9, 2025. Three founding projects: MCP donated by Anthropic, Goose donated by Block, and AGENTS.md donated by OpenAI. The foundation's structural pattern mirrors the Cloud Native Computing Foundation that hosts Kubernetes.
Platinum members
Amazon Web Services
Anthropic
Block
Bloomberg
Cloudflare
Microsoft
OpenAI
Roughly every major AI provider plus the largest cloud platforms.
Founding projects
MCP
The wire protocol for connecting AI applications to external data and tools. Donated by Anthropic; launched November 2024.
Goose
Open-source local-first AI agent framework with MCP-based integration. Donated by Block; released early 2025.
AGENTS.md
Markdown standard for repository-level agent instructions. Donated by OpenAI; released August 2025.
What LF stewardship changes
Intellectual property assignment, contributor licensing, and trademark handling move under the Linux Foundation. The pattern matches every CNCF project: governance scaffolding sits at the foundation, technical direction in practice continues through the original maintainer communities under LF process.
What stays unchanged in practice: the protocol's day-to-day evolution still runs through the maintainer communities. The LF provides legal and governance structure; the technical roadmap is community-driven.
Adjacent foundations
The Linux Foundation also stewards Google's Agent-to-Agent (A2A) protocol, which joined LF on June 23, 2025 as its own dedicated project alongside (but not under) AAIF. MCP handles agent-to-tool integration; A2A handles agent-to-agent coordination. Most production agent platforms use both.