# Agentic AI Foundation (AAIF) > Agentic AI Foundation (AAIF), a Linux Foundation project, is the neutral and open foundation built on transparency, collaboration, and standardization to advance the public interest in agentic AI innovation. Every entry below lists its canonical URL and its Markdown rendition (also reachable by requesting the canonical URL with `Accept: text/markdown`). ## Pages ### About URL: https://aaif.io/about Markdown: https://aaif.io/md/about Learn about the Agentic AI Foundation (AAIF) — our mission, governance, and role advancing open, standardized agentic AI in the public interest. ### About Ambassador Program URL: https://aaif.io/learn-more-about-the-program Markdown: https://aaif.io/md/learn-more-about-the-program How the AAIF Ambassador Program works, what ambassadors do, and how to get involved. ### Ambassador Program URL: https://aaif.io/ambassadors Markdown: https://aaif.io/md/ambassadors An elite cohort of practitioners helping the world understand, use, and contribute to AAIF-hosted projects. ### Awards URL: https://aaif.io/awards Markdown: https://aaif.io/md/awards Recognizing the individuals, teams, and organizations building the open agentic AI ecosystem. Nominations open July 2026. ### Blog URL: https://aaif.io/blog Markdown: https://aaif.io/md/blog The latest blog posts from AAIF. ### Brand URL: https://aaif.io/brand Markdown: https://aaif.io/md/brand We welcome our community to use AAIF brand assets. ### Case study URL: https://aaif.io/case-study Markdown: https://aaif.io/md/case-study Case studies from projects hosted by the Agentic AI Foundation (AAIF). ### Community Chapters URL: https://aaif.io/community-chapters Markdown: https://aaif.io/md/community-chapters AAIF Community Chapters bring members together through local events and community-driven initiatives that connect, educate, and inspire collaboration. ### Contact Us URL: https://aaif.io/contact Markdown: https://aaif.io/md/contact Contact us with questions related to Agentic AI Foundation (AAIF). ### Events URL: https://aaif.io/events Markdown: https://aaif.io/md/events Events hosted by the Agentic AI Foundation (AAIF) ### Governing Board URL: https://aaif.io/board Markdown: https://aaif.io/md/board The governing board members of the AAIF. ### Home URL: https://aaif.io/ Markdown: https://aaif.io/md Agentic AI Foundation (AAIF) is the neutral and open foundation built on transparency, collaboration, and standardization to advance the public interest in agentic AI innovation. ### Members URL: https://aaif.io/members Markdown: https://aaif.io/md/members Agentic AI Foundation members work together to further innovate, protect and standardize agentic AI. ### News URL: https://aaif.io/news Markdown: https://aaif.io/md/news The latest news and press from the Agentic AI Foundation (AAIF). ### Projects URL: https://aaif.io/projects Markdown: https://aaif.io/md/projects AAIF is host to top open source ### Staff URL: https://aaif.io/staff Markdown: https://aaif.io/md/staff The team supporting AAIF. ### Submit a Project URL: https://aaif.io/submit-a-project Markdown: https://aaif.io/md/submit-a-project Propose an open source project to be hosted by the Agentic AI Foundation (AAIF). ### Technical Committee URL: https://aaif.io/tc Markdown: https://aaif.io/md/tc The members of the AAIF Technical Steering Committee. ### Videos URL: https://aaif.io/video Markdown: https://aaif.io/md/video Watch exclusive interviews, event highlights, and deep dives into AAIF and agentic AI. ### Working Groups URL: https://aaif.io/working-groups Markdown: https://aaif.io/md/working-groups AAIF.io Working Groups bring members together to collaborate on focused initiatives, share expertise, and drive practical outcomes across the AI ecosystem. ### Working Groups calendar URL: https://aaif.io/working-groups/calendar Markdown: https://aaif.io/md/working-groups/calendar AAIF.io Working Groups bring members together to collaborate on focused initiatives, share expertise, and drive practical outcomes across the AI ecosystem. ## Blog ### MCP 2026 changes the rules URL: https://aaif.io/blog/mcp-2026-changes-the-rules Markdown: https://aaif.io/md/blog/mcp-2026-changes-the-rules The latest MCP version marks a break with the standard we’ve known until now, particularly for deployments that need to scale across multiple server instances and load balancers. ### Deploying MCP 2026-07-28 servers on AWS: A serverless reference architecture URL: https://aaif.io/blog/deploying-mcp-2026-07-28-servers-on-aws-a-serverless-reference-architecture Markdown: https://aaif.io/md/blog/deploying-mcp-2026-07-28-servers-on-aws-a-serverless-reference-architecture A practical AWS serverless reference architecture for MCP servers, using API Gateway, Cognito, Lambda, and DynamoDB, backed by STRIDE threat analysis. ### Authorization in MCP 2026-07-28: Clarifying trust relationships for agentic systems URL: https://aaif.io/blog/authorization-in-mcp-2026-07-28-clarifying-trust-relationships-for-agentic-systems Markdown: https://aaif.io/md/blog/authorization-in-mcp-2026-07-28-clarifying-trust-relationships-for-agentic-systems The Model Context Protocol (MCP) is becoming an important integration layer for agentic systems because it gives MCP clients a consistent way to access tools, data, and backend services on behalf of u ### MCP Usage Surged as the Protocol Went Stateless URL: https://aaif.io/blog/mcp-usage-surged-as-the-protocol-went-stateless Markdown: https://aaif.io/md/blog/mcp-usage-surged-as-the-protocol-went-stateless MCP tool calls surged this summer. Learn how the stateless July release helped service providers scale to meet surging demand. ### Catch Them Early URL: https://aaif.io/blog/aaif-sandbox-phase Markdown: https://aaif.io/md/blog/aaif-sandbox-phase The Agentic AI Foundation adds a Sandbox phase to catch early-stage projects before governance becomes expensive to retrofit. Learn about the new lifecycle policy. ### A2A v1.0: a builder's guide, part 2 - migration, security, and production URL: https://aaif.io/blog/a2a-v1-0-a-builder-s-guide-part-2-migration-security-and-production Markdown: https://aaif.io/md/blog/a2a-v1-0-a-builder-s-guide-part-2-migration-security-and-production This second part picks up with the breaking wire changes in v1.0, then moves through migration from 0.3, bindings, security, durability, authorization, and conformance. ### Improving tool-call reliability with JSON Schema 2020-12 URL: https://aaif.io/blog/improving-tool-call-reliability-with-json-schema-2020-12 Markdown: https://aaif.io/md/blog/improving-tool-call-reliability-with-json-schema-2020-12 The promise of autonomous agents lies in their ability to interact with complex systems, yet their integration with existing enterprise APIs is frequently hindered by a fundamental reliability gap. Wh ### The claim isn’t hard. The paperwork is. URL: https://aaif.io/blog/the-claim-isn-t-hard-the-paperwork-is Markdown: https://aaif.io/md/blog/the-claim-isn-t-hard-the-paperwork-is How MCP Apps put live CMS policy next to the answer — without feeding it to the model ### Handle long-running MCP tool calls with the MCP Tasks extension URL: https://aaif.io/blog/handle-long-running-mcp-tool-calls-with-the-mcp-tasks-extension Markdown: https://aaif.io/md/blog/handle-long-running-mcp-tool-calls-with-the-mcp-tasks-extension A few weeks ago, I gave a talk on something that sounds simple but is actually fairly complex: how to handle long-running MCP tool calls. ### Designing Websites for People and AI Agents with WebMCP URL: https://aaif.io/blog/designing-websites-for-ai-agents-with-webmcp Markdown: https://aaif.io/md/blog/designing-websites-for-ai-agents-with-webmcp Learn how WebMCP lets web developers publish structured tools for AI agents, enabling direct function calls instead of page interpretation. Reduce errors and token use. ### A platform team's guide to MCP 7-28 URL: https://aaif.io/blog/a-platform-team-s-guide-to-mcp-7-28 Markdown: https://aaif.io/md/blog/a-platform-team-s-guide-to-mcp-7-28 The 2026-07-28 revision of the Model Context Protocol (referred to here as 7-28) moved more of MCP from an application concern toward an infrastructure one, and the practical consequence is that more ### Your agent’s memory is a software supply chain URL: https://aaif.io/blog/your-agents-memory-is-a-software-supply-chain Markdown: https://aaif.io/md/blog/your-agents-memory-is-a-software-supply-chain Agent memory acts like a software supply chain: persistent context helps agents but stale, malicious, or wrong memories can be silently executed, creating serious security and reliability risks. ### A2A v1.0: a builder's guide, part 1 - discovery, tasks, and clients URL: https://aaif.io/blog/a2a-v1-0-a-builder-s-guide-part-1-discovery-tasks-and-clients Markdown: https://aaif.io/md/blog/a2a-v1-0-a-builder-s-guide-part-1-discovery-tasks-and-clients In part 1, we'll cover the core v1.0 flow: discovery, task lifecycle, server and client behavior, and the ways clients can follow work as it progresses. ### What We Learned Putting A2A Into Production URL: https://aaif.io/blog/what-we-learned-putting-a2a-into-production Markdown: https://aaif.io/md/blog/what-we-learned-putting-a2a-into-production How Eon's engineering team deployed the A2A protocol in their multi-agent assistant, covering agent cards, identity, provenance extensions, and production lessons learned. ### How to Build Reliable AI Agent Systems for Production URL: https://aaif.io/blog/how-to-build-reliable-ai-agent-systems-for-production Markdown: https://aaif.io/md/blog/how-to-build-reliable-ai-agent-systems-for-production Learn how to build reliable AI agent systems for production with policy enforcement, narrow permissions, context provenance, recovery patterns, and safe stopping mechanisms. ### Where A2A fits in the open agent ecosystem URL: https://aaif.io/blog/where-a2a-fits-in-the-open-agent-ecosystem Markdown: https://aaif.io/md/blog/where-a2a-fits-in-the-open-agent-ecosystem A2A standardizes collaboration between independent agents. It works alongside MCP, UCP, AP2, and established web standards, each addressing a different part of an agent interaction. ### How Does Agentic Commerce Work? URL: https://aaif.io/blog/how-does-agentic-commerce-work Markdown: https://aaif.io/md/blog/how-does-agentic-commerce-work Explore the emerging protocols enabling agentic commerce, from Google's UCP to Visa's Trusted Agent Protocol, and why agents need standard ways to shop and pay on behalf of users. ### Enterprise MCP gateway security in practice with agentgateway URL: https://aaif.io/blog/enterprise-mcp-gateway-security-in-practice-with-agentgateway Markdown: https://aaif.io/md/blog/enterprise-mcp-gateway-security-in-practice-with-agentgateway Enterprise teams use MCP gateways to control how AI agents reach tools, services, and company data. Agentgateway, an open source project hosted by the Agentic AI Foundation, routes MCP, Agent-to-Agent ### MCP sessions are gone. Where should your state live? URL: https://aaif.io/blog/mcp-sessions-are-gone-where-should-your-state-live Markdown: https://aaif.io/md/blog/mcp-sessions-are-gone-where-should-your-state-live MCP 2026-07-28 removes something remote MCP servers have quietly depended on for a long time: transport-level sessions. ### Building a read-only multi-cloud Kubernetes inventory with goose URL: https://aaif.io/blog/building-a-read-only-multi-cloud-kubernetes-inventory-with-goose Markdown: https://aaif.io/md/blog/building-a-read-only-multi-cloud-kubernetes-inventory-with-goose A design walkthrough for OKE and AKS using a goose recipe, supervised shell access, and read-only cloud credentials. ### A2A joins AAIF’s open agentic stack URL: https://aaif.io/blog/a2a-joins-aaif Markdown: https://aaif.io/md/blog/a2a-joins-aaif Agent2Agent (A2A), the open standard for inter-agent communication, is joining the Agentic AI Foundation (AAIF) as a hosted project. ### Putting a front door on local AI with agentgateway URL: https://aaif.io/blog/putting-a-front-door-on-local-ai-with-agentgateway Markdown: https://aaif.io/md/blog/putting-a-front-door-on-local-ai-with-agentgateway Authentication, a shared token budget, health-based failover, and usage metrics for self-hosted models: one binary, one YAML file, no Kubernetes required. ### Building a governed MCP platform with agentgateway URL: https://aaif.io/blog/building-a-governed-mcp-platform-with-agentgateway Markdown: https://aaif.io/md/blog/building-a-governed-mcp-platform-with-agentgateway An AI agent can connect to a model or tool in minutes. The harder questions arrive later: Which identity made the call? Which tools was it allowed to discover? Would a failed model route recover? Coul ### Writing an effective AGENTS.md URL: https://aaif.io/blog/writing-an-effective-agents-md Markdown: https://aaif.io/md/blog/writing-an-effective-agents-md An AGENTS.md file can tell a coding agent how to work inside a repository: where relevant code lives, which commands to run, which files have special handling, and what needs to be true before a chang ### Designing requestState for Multi Round-Trip Requests URL: https://aaif.io/blog/designing-requeststate-for-multi-round-trip-requests Markdown: https://aaif.io/md/blog/designing-requeststate-for-multi-round-trip-requests How MRTR works in MCP 2026-07-28, how to design requestState, and the implementation and security trade-offs that matter in production. ### Agent observability: what to track first URL: https://aaif.io/blog/agent-observability-what-to-track-first Markdown: https://aaif.io/md/blog/agent-observability-what-to-track-first Standard monitoring misses this kind of failure. The run keeps dying partway through, and from outside it looks like a flaky tool or a bad model day. At Port of Context, the cause only showed up once ### The age of stateless MCP URL: https://aaif.io/blog/the-age-of-stateless-mcp Markdown: https://aaif.io/md/blog/the-age-of-stateless-mcp The new MCP specification is out. It is the largest protocol change since MCP launched, and it addresses a problem that became obvious as remote servers moved from demos into production: the protocol ### Who told the agent it could spend? URL: https://aaif.io/blog/who-told-the-agent-it-could-spend Markdown: https://aaif.io/md/blog/who-told-the-agent-it-could-spend Once an MCP tool call can move money, authorization stops being a login detail and becomes where financial risk is actually controlled. But that control doesn't live in one place. The OAuth/MCP layer ### Non-blocking human-in-the-loop agents: re-engineering agentic runloops and state machines with MRTR URL: https://aaif.io/blog/non-blocking-human-in-the-loop-agents-re-engineering-agentic-runloops-and-state-machines-with-mr Markdown: https://aaif.io/md/blog/non-blocking-human-in-the-loop-agents-re-engineering-agentic-runloops-and-state-machines-with-mr How MCP 2026-07-28 Multi Round-Trip Requests let enterprise agents pause for human approval without long-lived server connections — with a LangGraph and agentgateway design walkthrough. ### We built a small browser game about the MCP 728 spec URL: https://aaif.io/blog/we-built-a-small-browser-game-about-the-mcp-728-spec Markdown: https://aaif.io/md/blog/we-built-a-small-browser-game-about-the-mcp-728-spec Introducing Protocol Kwest: Rise of the Stateless Order, a small game that runs in your web browser, and it teaches what changed in the MCP spec revision dated 2026-07-28. ### The enterprise MCP scaling paradox: why every agent needs a tailored backend URL: https://aaif.io/blog/the-enterprise-mcp-scaling-paradox-why-every-agent-needs-a-tailored-backend Markdown: https://aaif.io/md/blog/the-enterprise-mcp-scaling-paradox-why-every-agent-needs-a-tailored-backend Explore why scaling Model Context Protocol in enterprises creates operational challenges - from server proliferation to governance gaps - and how tailored backends solve the paradox. ### Exposing OpenAPI operations as authorized MCP tools with agentgateway and Keycloak URL: https://aaif.io/blog/exposing-openapi-operations-as-authorized-mcp-tools-with-agentgateway-and-keycloak Markdown: https://aaif.io/md/blog/exposing-openapi-operations-as-authorized-mcp-tools-with-agentgateway-and-keycloak Recently, Model Context Protocol (MCP) has been gaining significant traction for enabling Agentic AI to integrate with external tools. Exposing existing OpenAPI operations as authorized MCP tools requ ### From Skills and Tools to Portable Agent Plugins URL: https://aaif.io/blog/from-skills-and-tools-to-portable-agent-plugins Markdown: https://aaif.io/md/blog/from-skills-and-tools-to-portable-agent-plugins Agent Plugins 1.0 defines a small, open package format for distributing Agent Skills and MCP servers across compatible clients. ### Using Keycloak as an MCP authorization server URL: https://aaif.io/blog/using-keycloak-as-an-mcp-authorization-server Markdown: https://aaif.io/md/blog/using-keycloak-as-an-mcp-authorization-server MCP, or Model Context Protocol, is an open standard protocol for connecting AI applications with external systems. With MCP, AI agents can access local files, databases, search engines, enterprise sys ### AI Music Needs More Knobs: YouAndOrchestra Makes Conducting Agents a Compositional Exercise URL: https://aaif.io/blog/ai-music-needs-more-knobs-youandorchestra-makes-conducting-agents-a-compositional-exercise Markdown: https://aaif.io/md/blog/ai-music-needs-more-knobs-youandorchestra-makes-conducting-agents-a-compositional-exercise TLDR: AI music production is shifting from one-shot prompt generation toward agentic co-creation that prioritizes granular control and iterative feedback, exemplified by projects like YouAndOrchestra. ### Three judgments from AI Native Shanghai URL: https://aaif.io/blog/three-judgments-from-ai-native-shanghai Markdown: https://aaif.io/md/blog/three-judgments-from-ai-native-shanghai On 23 July 2026, members of the AAIF and CNCF communities met in Shanghai to discuss how current open source projects can support the design of AI-native systems. ### The EU AI Act and the New Rules for Building AI Agents URL: https://aaif.io/blog/the-eu-ai-act-and-the-new-rules-for-building-ai-agents Markdown: https://aaif.io/md/blog/the-eu-ai-act-and-the-new-rules-for-building-ai-agents What companies need to know about risk, transparency, oversight, and accountability across the agentic stack. ### The Ecosystem Responds to Stateless MCP URL: https://aaif.io/blog/the-ecosystem-responds-to-stateless-mcp Markdown: https://aaif.io/md/blog/the-ecosystem-responds-to-stateless-mcp Within days of the MCP 2026-07-28 specification release, infrastructure providers, SDK maintainers, cloud platforms, and tool vendors aligned with new version. ### 56 things we learned from MCP Dev Summit Bengaluru URL: https://aaif.io/blog/56-things-we-learned-from-mcp-dev-summit-bengaluru Markdown: https://aaif.io/md/blog/56-things-we-learned-from-mcp-dev-summit-bengaluru MCP Dev Summit Bengaluru showed the protocol moving from early server demos toward production infrastructure. The sessions covered tool design, context budgets, gateways, registries, identity, authori ### MCP in production: what changes after the demo works URL: https://aaif.io/blog/mcp-in-production-what-changes-after-the-demo-works Markdown: https://aaif.io/md/blog/mcp-in-production-what-changes-after-the-demo-works A demo MCP server might expose one tool, add_to_cart, that a model calls a few times before checkout. With a single user on one machine, after a few seconds, it runs and the work looks done. ### Governance as Infrastructure — What the MCP 2026-07-28 Migration Actually Demands of Permissions, Audit, and Lifecycle URL: https://aaif.io/blog/governance-as-infrastructure-what-the-mcp-2026-07-28-migration-actually-demands-of-permissions-a Markdown: https://aaif.io/md/blog/governance-as-infrastructure-what-the-mcp-2026-07-28-migration-actually-demands-of-permissions-a The 2026-07-28 revision of the Model Context Protocol is the largest change since the protocol launched. Its headline is technical: the protocol core becomes stateless. The initialize handshake and th ### Safely Rolling Out the July 28 MCP Update with agentgateway URL: https://aaif.io/blog/safely-rolling-out-the-july-28-mcp-update-with-agentgateway Markdown: https://aaif.io/md/blog/safely-rolling-out-the-july-28-mcp-update-with-agentgateway The biggest architectural change is that MCP communication is now designed around stateless requests. ### Verifiable Evidence at the MCP Boundary URL: https://aaif.io/blog/verifiable-evidence-at-the-mcp-boundary Markdown: https://aaif.io/md/blog/verifiable-evidence-at-the-mcp-boundary What the 2026-07-28 Model Context Protocol release sets up, and how we build on it together ### The Anatomy of MCP Authorization: How the Hardened Flow Actually Runs URL: https://aaif.io/blog/the-anatomy-of-mcp-authorization-how-the-hardened-flow-actually-runs Markdown: https://aaif.io/md/blog/the-anatomy-of-mcp-authorization-how-the-hardened-flow-actually-runs Before the first packet moves, hold roles of OAuth apart cleanly, because everything downstream depends on you not blurring them. ### Migrate Sessions to Stateless Requests with MCP 2026-07-28 URL: https://aaif.io/blog/migrate-sessions-to-stateless-requests-with-mcp-2026-07-28 Markdown: https://aaif.io/md/blog/migrate-sessions-to-stateless-requests-with-mcp-2026-07-28 MCP 7-28: a new extensions framework, OAuth/OpenID authorization updates, a formal deprecation policy, and more. ### MCP Graduates to Enterprise Infrastructure: Stateless Architecture, Formal Governance, and Security Hardening URL: https://aaif.io/blog/mcp-graduates-to-enterprise-infrastructure-stateless-architecture-formal-governance-and-security Markdown: https://aaif.io/md/blog/mcp-graduates-to-enterprise-infrastructure-stateless-architecture-formal-governance-and-security The largest update to the protocol since launch removes core scaling bottlenecks, adding first class extensions, hardening authentication and adding a formal deprecation policy to make agentic AI read ### MCP Just Handed You a Deprecation Policy. Steal It. URL: https://aaif.io/blog/mcp-just-handed-you-a-deprecation-policy-steal-it Markdown: https://aaif.io/md/blog/mcp-just-handed-you-a-deprecation-policy-steal-it The MCP 2026-07-28 release gives teams a template for addressing a production failure most people have not connected it to yet, and it is not the part of the spec anyone is talking about. It is a temp ### 7-28 Hands MCP to Platform Teams URL: https://aaif.io/blog/7-28-hands-mcp-to-platform-teams Markdown: https://aaif.io/md/blog/7-28-hands-mcp-to-platform-teams The 7-28 MCP spec revision includes a number of capabilities that will resonate with platform teams. ### Measuring AGENTS.md: What Five Runs Show That One Doesn't URL: https://aaif.io/blog/measuring-agents-md-what-five-runs-show-that-one-doesn-t Markdown: https://aaif.io/md/blog/measuring-agents-md-what-five-runs-show-that-one-doesn-t Five controlled tests show AGENTS.md improves coding agent efficiency, reducing tokens, time, and unnecessary code changes. ### MCP 2026-07-28: What's Changing and How to Migrate URL: https://aaif.io/blog/mcp-2026-07-28-whats-changing-and-how-to-migrate Markdown: https://aaif.io/md/blog/mcp-2026-07-28-whats-changing-and-how-to-migrate Explore MCP's biggest update since launch. Learn how the protocol evolves from local tool to distributed, stateless architecture for enterprise scale. ### MCP 7-28 Release Party — Come Celebrate With the AAIF Community Near You URL: https://aaif.io/blog/mcp-7-28-release-party-come-celebrate-with-the-aaif-community-near-you Markdown: https://aaif.io/md/blog/mcp-7-28-release-party-come-celebrate-with-the-aaif-community-near-you The Model Context Protocol hits a major milestone, and we are marking it the right way: in person, with the people building it. ### Agentgateway now supports ID-JAG and MCP Enterprise Managed Auth URL: https://aaif.io/blog/agentgateway-now-supports-id-jag-and-mcp-enterprise-managed-auth Markdown: https://aaif.io/md/blog/agentgateway-now-supports-id-jag-and-mcp-enterprise-managed-auth Agentgateway now supports MCP Enterprise Managed Auth and ID-JAG, giving enterprises centralized control over AI agent access to SaaS tools—no per-user consent required. ### Running goose fully offline on a DGX Spark URL: https://aaif.io/blog/running-goose-fully-offline-on-a-dgx-spark Markdown: https://aaif.io/md/blog/running-goose-fully-offline-on-a-dgx-spark A hands-on look at running a local-first agent on the NVIDIA DGX Spark: zero cloud calls, on a 128 GB box that fits on a desk. Almost every agent demo you see talks to a frontier model over a cloud A… ### Introducing MCP 7-28 for AI Application Developers: What Goes Away, and What Might Break URL: https://aaif.io/blog/introducing-mcp-7-28-for-ai-application-developers-what-goes-away-and-what-might-break Markdown: https://aaif.io/md/blog/introducing-mcp-7-28-for-ai-application-developers-what-goes-away-and-what-might-break Junghwan Park (9bow) is an AAIF Ambassador, a PyTorch Ambassador, and the lead maintainer of the PyTorch Korea User Group (PyTorchKR). A Korean version of this post is available here. TL;DR: MCP 7-28… ### Agentic AI Is Being Built in Real Life — Come Build It With Us URL: https://aaif.io/blog/agentic-ai-is-being-built-in-real-life-come-build-it-with-us Markdown: https://aaif.io/md/blog/agentic-ai-is-being-built-in-real-life-come-build-it-with-us We're looking for venue hosts, organizers, and anyone who wants to help grow the AAIF events community. Raise your hand and tell us how you'd like to take part. ### The Human Agent: A Random Lunch, Blind Developers, and the Human Connection Launching the Loop URL: https://aaif.io/blog/the-human-agent-blind-developers-and-the-human-connection-launching-the-loop Markdown: https://aaif.io/md/blog/the-human-agent-blind-developers-and-the-human-connection-launching-the-loop Humans remain the most creative and critical actors in the agent economy. Even in open-ended environments like OpenClaw, AI agents still operate within relatively constrained paths. Humans don't. We… ### Introducing the MCPA: the First Official Certification for the Model Context Protocol URL: https://aaif.io/blog/introducing-the-mcpa-the-first-official-certification-for-the-model-context-protocol Markdown: https://aaif.io/md/blog/introducing-the-mcpa-the-first-official-certification-for-the-model-context-protocol The Model Context Protocol (MCP) has become one of the most important standards in agentic AI. In a little over a year, it went from a promising idea to the default way AI applications connec… ### Agentic AI Momentum Report URL: https://aaif.io/blog/agentic-ai-momentum-report Markdown: https://aaif.io/md/blog/agentic-ai-momentum-report We track the top open source agentic AI projects gaining traction and becoming core ecosystem infrastructure. The Momentum set spans 116 projects across 5 layers: Frameworks & Infrastructure, Agent C… ### Can MCP Help a Small Local Model Shine? Hands-on with Goose URL: https://aaif.io/blog/can-mcp-help-a-small-local-model-shine-hands-on-with-goose Markdown: https://aaif.io/md/blog/can-mcp-help-a-small-local-model-shine-hands-on-with-goose I wanted to know whether the whole agent loop could run locally on my M3 24GB laptop: the model, the tools, and my MCP server on the same machine, with no cloud model provider in the loop. ### Community Spotlight: Building the Interoperable Internet of Agents with Jason Cottrell URL: https://aaif.io/blog/community-spotlight-building-the-interoperable-internet-of-agents-with-jason-cottrell Markdown: https://aaif.io/md/blog/community-spotlight-building-the-interoperable-internet-of-agents-with-jason-cottrell The true power of agentic systems lies in openness. The growth of agentic AI is too vast, too important, and too transformative to belong to any single software vendor. To move beyond single-prototyp… ### Beyond Single-User Bots: How goose is Building a Distributed AI Teammate Ecosystem with MCP and Shared Compute URL: https://aaif.io/blog/how-goose-is-building-a-distributed-ai-teammate-ecosystem Markdown: https://aaif.io/md/blog/how-goose-is-building-a-distributed-ai-teammate-ecosystem Most AI assistants are designed as isolated, single-user desktop utilities tied to an individual's local terminal and API keys. They operate within silos, unable to collaborate across engineering tea… ### Agentgateway v1.3.0: LLM Consumption, Reimagined URL: https://aaif.io/blog/agentgateway-v1-3-0-llm-consumption-reimagined Markdown: https://aaif.io/md/blog/agentgateway-v1-3-0-llm-consumption-reimagined Agentgateway, an open gateway project for agentic AI infrastructure that joined the Agentic AI Foundation, has released v1.3.0. The release rebuilds how the gateway handles LLM traffic. ### Productionizing MCP for Regulated Industries: Three Hard Constraints for Enterprise Engineering URL: https://aaif.io/blog/productionizing-mcp-for-regulated-industries-three-hard-constraints-for-enterprise-engineering Markdown: https://aaif.io/md/blog/productionizing-mcp-for-regulated-industries-three-hard-constraints-for-enterprise-engineering Deploying Model Context Protocol architectures within enterprise banking environments that require strict security patterns like out-of-band personal data isolation, distributed tracking, and decoupl… ### Community Spotlight: JetBrains' Katherine Druckman on Why Open Collaboration Is Essential to Trusted Agentic AI URL: https://aaif.io/blog/community-spotlight-jetbrains-katherine-druckman-on-why-open-collaboration-is-essential-to-trusted-agentic-ai Markdown: https://aaif.io/md/blog/community-spotlight-jetbrains-katherine-druckman-on-why-open-collaboration-is-essential-to-trusted-agentic-ai Katherine Druckman, Head of Community and Partnership Engagement at JetBrains, a Gold Member of the Agentic AI Foundation (AAIF) with nearly two decades of experience in open source software communit… ### A Stronger Voice: What Membership Can Mean in Open Agentic AI URL: https://aaif.io/blog/a-stronger-voice-what-membership-can-mean-in-open-agentic-ai Markdown: https://aaif.io/md/blog/a-stronger-voice-what-membership-can-mean-in-open-agentic-ai Step deeper into working groups, draft a blog post, or bring novel ideas to office hours. There's a lot left to build, and giving direct supporters a voice is one of the more important tools in that… ### We Planned for 10 Ambassadors. We're Welcoming 138. URL: https://aaif.io/blog/we-planned-for-10-ambassadors-were-welcoming-138 Markdown: https://aaif.io/md/blog/we-planned-for-10-ambassadors-were-welcoming-138 The first AAIF Ambassador cohort is composed of 138 members across 41 countries. Here's what the response to this program revealed about where the agentic AI community actually is right now. ### Native Speakers: Why AI's Most Powerful Users Are Blind URL: https://aaif.io/blog/native-speakers-why-ais-most-powerful-users-are-blind Markdown: https://aaif.io/md/blog/native-speakers-why-ais-most-powerful-users-are-blind Large language models don't “see” interfaces, buttons, or navigate visually. They live and die by language, and that fact arguably makes LLMs one of the most consequential accessibility developments… ### How Vstorm Put AGENTS.md Into Every AI Agent-Ready Project It Ships URL: https://aaif.io/blog/how-vstorm-put-agents-md-into-every-ai-agent-ready-project-it-ships Markdown: https://aaif.io/md/blog/how-vstorm-put-agents-md-into-every-ai-agent-ready-project-it-ships Vstorm, an Applied Agentic AI Engineering Consultancy and AAIF Silver Member, embedded AGENTS.md auto-generation into its open source agentic AI project template. Every FastAPI + Next.js project the… ### Skills Over MCP URL: https://aaif.io/blog/skills-over-mcp Markdown: https://aaif.io/md/blog/skills-over-mcp I’m a big fan and user of both MCP and Agent Skills, so when I learned there’s a Skills Over MCP working group (WG) that’s looking into integrating Skills with MCP, I had no choice but to lurk. ### How to Write a Great Nomination for the AAIF Technical Excellence Awards URL: https://aaif.io/blog/how-to-write-a-great-nomination-for-the-aaif-technical-excellence-awards Markdown: https://aaif.io/md/blog/how-to-write-a-great-nomination-for-the-aaif-technical-excellence-awards The inaugural AAIF Annual Technical Excellence Awards are here — and your nomination could make all the difference. ### Introducing the AAIF Annual Technical Excellence Awards — Nominations Now Open URL: https://aaif.io/blog/introducing-the-aaif-annual-technical-excellence-awards Markdown: https://aaif.io/md/blog/introducing-the-aaif-annual-technical-excellence-awards The open agentic AI community has built something remarkable. It's time we celebrated the people and organizations making it happen. ### MCP's Missing Half: Why Second-Order Servers Don't Exist Yet URL: https://aaif.io/blog/mcps-missing-half-why-second-order-servers-dont-exist-yet Markdown: https://aaif.io/md/blog/mcps-missing-half-why-second-order-servers-dont-exist-yet MCP servers can call tools, but clients cannot expose them back to servers. Jerome Swannack, one of MCP's original architects, explains how client-to-server tool sharing could unlock more modular, pl… ### TIL at MCPDev Summit Bengaluru: Six Lessons from the Agentic Frontier URL: https://aaif.io/blog/til-at-mcpdev-summit-bengaluru-six-lessons-from-the-agentic-frontier Markdown: https://aaif.io/md/blog/til-at-mcpdev-summit-bengaluru-six-lessons-from-the-agentic-frontier The Agentic AI Foundation held its first event in India last week in Bengaluru and the community came out in force for a dose of agentic truthtelling. The 57 sessions were packed and the energy in th… ### AI Agents for Air-Gapped Industrial Environments: Why goose? URL: https://aaif.io/blog/ai-agents-for-air-gapped-industrial-environments-why-goose Markdown: https://aaif.io/md/blog/ai-agents-for-air-gapped-industrial-environments-why-goose The explosive growth of AI agent technology has brought tools like OpenAI’s Claude Code, Grok Build, and Codex to the forefront. While the IT industry has rapidly adopted these advancements, the situ… ### Three Key Operational Patterns You Need to Prevent MCP Horror Stories URL: https://aaif.io/blog/three-key-operational-patterns-you-need-to-prevent-mcp-horror-stories Markdown: https://aaif.io/md/blog/three-key-operational-patterns-you-need-to-prevent-mcp-horror-stories Many MCP failures come from weak security architecture or lack of operational guardrails for what the agents can and cannot do. In her talk, Cecilia Liu of Docker examined two real MCP “horror storie… ### How Port of Context eliminated production agent failures with goose, Arcade.dev, and Code Mode URL: https://aaif.io/blog/how-port-of-context-eliminated-production-agent-failures Markdown: https://aaif.io/md/blog/how-port-of-context-eliminated-production-agent-failures Port of Context needed a GTM intelligence agent that could search multiple key terms in real time across data-intensive sources like GitHub and Hacker News. Before committing to an execution path, th… ### goose Doubles Down on Open in Latest Two Releases URL: https://aaif.io/blog/goose-doubles-down-on-open-in-latest-two-releases Markdown: https://aaif.io/md/blog/goose-doubles-down-on-open-in-latest-two-releases goose is an open source AI agent runtime hosted at the Agentic AI Foundation. Its last two releases, versions 1.36 and 1.37, dropped in quick succession and together push goose further open.Here's wh… ### Karpathy's LLM Wiki as Agent Memory URL: https://aaif.io/blog/karpathys-llm-wiki-as-agent-memory Markdown: https://aaif.io/md/blog/karpathys-llm-wiki-as-agent-memory At work, I’m building agents to handle various operational tasks and have found Karpathy’s LLM Wiki design to be an excellent solution for implementing most types of memory for my agents.The LLM wiki… ### agentgateway Joins AAIF as an Open Gateway for Agentic AI Infrastructure URL: https://aaif.io/blog/agentgateway-joins-aaif-as-an-open-gateway-for-agentic-ai-infrastructure Markdown: https://aaif.io/md/blog/agentgateway-joins-aaif-as-an-open-gateway-for-agentic-ai-infrastructure The Agentic AI Foundation welcomes agentgateway — an open source gateway purpose-built for MCP, Agent-to-Agent, LLM, and API traffic — as its newest hosted project. ### Designing agentgateway: A Unified High-Performance Gateway for AI and API Traffic URL: https://aaif.io/blog/designing-agentgateway-a-unified-high-performance-gateway-for-ai-and-api-traffic Markdown: https://aaif.io/md/blog/designing-agentgateway-a-unified-high-performance-gateway-for-ai-and-api-traffic Solo.io’s Lin Sun on the infrastructure challenges emerging around AI systems, why existing gateway patterns are being stretched in new ways, and why agentgateway was built as a unified, high-perform… ### AAIF Community Spotlight: Yaron Schneider – Why Strong Foundations and Standardization Will Define the Era of Agentic AI URL: https://aaif.io/blog/why-strong-foundations-will-define-the-era-of-agentic-ai Markdown: https://aaif.io/md/blog/why-strong-foundations-will-define-the-era-of-agentic-ai How do we take the incredible momentum of autonomous AI agents and scale it into reliable, enterprise-grade production? As businesses rush to deploy agentic workloads, the focus is rapidly shifting f… ### The Tool Abstraction Problem: Lessons Learned Building 1000+ MCP Tools URL: https://aaif.io/blog/the-tool-abstraction-problem Markdown: https://aaif.io/md/blog/the-tool-abstraction-problem The Tool Abstraction Problem: Lessons Learned Building 1000+ MCP Tools ### Datadog's 5 Tips for Building AI Agents URL: https://aaif.io/blog/datadogs-5-tips-for-building-ai-agents Markdown: https://aaif.io/md/blog/datadogs-5-tips-for-building-ai-agents Getting an AI agent to work is a different problem from getting it to run in production without someone watching it. Datadog built its first hundred agents across SRE, code generation, and security i… ### MCP Is Growing Up URL: https://aaif.io/blog/mcp-is-growing-up Markdown: https://aaif.io/md/blog/mcp-is-growing-up The 2026-07-28 release candidate makes MCP easier to run, reason about, and extend in agentic systems. ### We're Building a Squad of Agentic AI Advocates: Join the AAIF Ambassador Program URL: https://aaif.io/blog/were-building-a-squad-of-agentic-ai-advocates-join-the-aaif-ambassador-program Markdown: https://aaif.io/md/blog/were-building-a-squad-of-agentic-ai-advocates-join-the-aaif-ambassador-program Angie Jones VP of Developer Experience, Agentic AI Foundation ### Building Trust Into the Protocol: Bloomberg's MCP Contributions URL: https://aaif.io/blog/building-trust-into-the-protocol-bloombergs-mcp-contributions Markdown: https://aaif.io/md/blog/building-trust-into-the-protocol-bloombergs-mcp-contributions A deep dive into Ania Musial’s talk at MCP Dev Summit North America 2026 ### Welcome to AAIF: The MLOps Community Finds Its New Home URL: https://aaif.io/blog/mlops-community-joins-aaif Markdown: https://aaif.io/md/blog/mlops-community-joins-aaif I'm thrilled to welcome the MLOps Community into the Agentic AI Foundation (AAIF) as our user community. ### 100 Tools Down to 3: Prime Video's Approach to Progressive Tool Discovery URL: https://aaif.io/blog/prime-videos-approach-to-progressive-tool-discovery Markdown: https://aaif.io/md/blog/prime-videos-approach-to-progressive-tool-discovery Explore how Prime Video's approach simplifies tool discovery, reducing hundreds of options down to three key tools. ### MCP Was Designed for the Cloud. The Edge Has Different Rules. URL: https://aaif.io/blog/mcp-was-designed-for-the-cloud-the-edge-has-different-rules Markdown: https://aaif.io/md/blog/mcp-was-designed-for-the-cloud-the-edge-has-different-rules Almost all of MCP's current adoption is happening in cloud environments, on large models with generous compute budgets.Manufacturing floors, medical devices, vehicles, smartphones,are where the next… ### Are MCP and CLIs Competing? URL: https://aaif.io/blog/are-mcp-and-clis-competing Markdown: https://aaif.io/md/blog/are-mcp-and-clis-competing Nick Cooper, Member of Technical Staff at OpenAI and a contributor to the MCP ecosystem, shared that he'd been thinking about this debate for a year, but stopped short of picking a side: "As for whet… ### How Uber Runs 60,000 AI Agent Tasks Per Week With MCP URL: https://aaif.io/blog/how-uber-runs-60000-ai-agent-tasks-per-week-with-mcp Markdown: https://aaif.io/md/blog/how-uber-runs-60000-ai-agent-tasks-per-week-with-mcp A deep dive into Meghana Somasundara and Rush Tehrani’s talk at MCP Dev Summit North America 2026 ### Stateless: The Future of MCP Transports URL: https://aaif.io/blog/stateless-the-future-of-mcp-transports Markdown: https://aaif.io/md/blog/stateless-the-future-of-mcp-transports The operational scale of MCP is significant: Google Cloud maintains the reliability for its MCP servers supporting AlloyDB, Spanner, Cloud SQL, Bigtable, and Firestore. The team's open source MCP Too… ### The Missing Layer in AI Interoperability: Discovery URL: https://aaif.io/blog/the-missing-layer-in-ai-interoperability-discovery Markdown: https://aaif.io/md/blog/the-missing-layer-in-ai-interoperability-discovery As we integrate AI into more workflows, a common question is: how do AI systems find each other and related artifacts? AI Catalog addresses this by providing a shared, trusted discovery layer that gi… ### Your MCP Server Works. Your Agent Doesn't. Here's Why. URL: https://aaif.io/blog/your-mcp-server-works-your-agent-doesnt-heres-why Markdown: https://aaif.io/md/blog/your-mcp-server-works-your-agent-doesnt-heres-why Red Hat engineers Wesley Chun and Calum Murray opened with a problem that a lot of MCP server builders have already run into: your code passes every test, the agent still fails, and you have no idea… ### Anthropic's Lessons from Building MCP Apps URL: https://aaif.io/blog/anthropics-lessons-from-building-mcp-apps Markdown: https://aaif.io/md/blog/anthropics-lessons-from-building-mcp-apps MCP Apps exist because displaying data in chat is wasteful. Take the case of a simple request like “What’s the weather today in New York?” When a user asks for it, the model gets JSON from the tool,… ### How to Submit your Project to the AAIF URL: https://aaif.io/blog/how-to-submit-your-project-to-the-aaif Markdown: https://aaif.io/md/blog/how-to-submit-your-project-to-the-aaif Do you have an open source project? Submit your project to the AAIF for a chance to collaborate with leading tech companies. ### The Four Pillars of Agentic AI Infrastructure on Kubernetes URL: https://aaif.io/blog/agentic-ai-infrastructure-on-kubernetes Markdown: https://aaif.io/md/blog/agentic-ai-infrastructure-on-kubernetes Explore Agentic AI Infrastructure Kubernetes and how it revolutionizes software engineering standards for the future. ### Stripe on Agentic Commerce: Trends from 2026 URL: https://aaif.io/blog/five-lessons-stripe-sessions-on-agentic-commerce Markdown: https://aaif.io/md/blog/five-lessons-stripe-sessions-on-agentic-commerce Explore Stripe On Agentic Commerce and its impact on the future of payments. Insights from Stripe Sessions 2026. ### Closing the Context Gap: Why MCP + Skills Works URL: https://aaif.io/blog/closing-the-context-gap-why-mcp-skills-works Markdown: https://aaif.io/md/blog/closing-the-context-gap-why-mcp-skills-works At the MCP Dev Summit 2026, Pedro Rodrigues, AI Tooling Engineer at Supabase, challenged a growing rift in the developer community. "People keep asking if they should build an MCP server or use Agent… ### Use agentgateway to Mediate MCP and LLM Traffic at Solo.io URL: https://aaif.io/blog/use-agentgateway-to-mediate-mcp-and-llm-traffic-at-solo-io Markdown: https://aaif.io/md/blog/use-agentgateway-to-mediate-mcp-and-llm-traffic-at-solo-io Lin Sun Head of Open Source, Solo.io Lin is Head of Open Source at Solo.io and co-chair of KubeCon + CloudNativeCon 2026. She is an active contributor to AAIF working... ### How Duolingo Built an AI Slackbot With 180+ MCP Tools URL: https://aaif.io/blog/how-duolingo-built-an-ai-slackbot-with-180-mcp-tools Markdown: https://aaif.io/md/blog/how-duolingo-built-an-ai-slackbot-with-180-mcp-tools At the MCP Dev Summit, Aaron Wang, a software engineer at Duolingo, shared how the company went from a handful of engineers experimenting with MCP, to 250 weekly active users (about 30% of the compan… ### Debugging the Hardest Parts of MCP with MCP Debugger URL: https://aaif.io/blog/debugging-the-hardest-parts-of-mcp-with-mcp-debugger Markdown: https://aaif.io/md/blog/debugging-the-hardest-parts-of-mcp-with-mcp-debugger Nate Barbettini Nate is the Founding Engineer of Arcade.dev, currently building on the cutting edge of AI. 🤖 Over the past year, I’ve spent a lot of time in the... ### From Workflow Orchestration to Agentic Orchestration URL: https://aaif.io/blog/from-workflow-orchestration-to-agentic-orchestration Markdown: https://aaif.io/md/blog/from-workflow-orchestration-to-agentic-orchestration Yaron Schneider Yaron is the Co-Founder of Diagrid and Chair of the Workflow Working Group at the Agentic AI Foundation ### MCP Apps: Extending the Frontier URL: https://aaif.io/blog/mcp-apps-extending-the-frontier Markdown: https://aaif.io/md/blog/mcp-apps-extending-the-frontier A deep dive into the keynote by Ido Salomon & Liad Yosef at MCP Dev Summit North America 2026 ### Where New MCP Ideas Go to Become Real: Goose as a Proving Ground URL: https://aaif.io/blog/where-new-mcp-ideas-go-to-become-real-goose-as-a-proving-ground Markdown: https://aaif.io/md/blog/where-new-mcp-ideas-go-to-become-real-goose-as-a-proving-ground Agentic AI Foundation A deep dive into Alex Hancock’s talk at MCP Dev Summit North America 2026 Alex Hancock opened his talk at MCP Dev Summit with a couple of... ### MCP Maintainer Roundtable: Control, Security, And Quality URL: https://aaif.io/blog/mcp-maintainer-roundtable-control-security-and-quality Markdown: https://aaif.io/md/blog/mcp-maintainer-roundtable-control-security-and-quality Agentic AI Foundation At the MCP Dev Summit NA in New York on April 2–3, the Agentic AI Foundation brought together a roundtable with the MCP Project maintainers: Clare Liguori... ### MCP Is Now Enterprise Infrastructure: Everything That Happened at MCP Dev Summit North America 2026 URL: https://aaif.io/blog/mcp-is-now-enterprise-infrastructure-everything-that-happened-at-mcp-dev-summit-north-america-2026 Markdown: https://aaif.io/md/blog/mcp-is-now-enterprise-infrastructure-everything-that-happened-at-mcp-dev-summit-north-america-2026 Agentic AI Foundation New York City · Agentic AI Foundation & Linux Foundation The biggest ideas and sharpest insights from MCP Dev Summit North America: where the builders, contributors, and... ### Building the Foundation for Agentic AI URL: https://aaif.io/blog/building-the-foundation-for-agentic-ai Markdown: https://aaif.io/md/blog/building-the-foundation-for-agentic-ai Blog post from AAIF's VP of Developer Experience, Angie Jones. ### Why I’m Joining the Agentic AI Foundation—Building the Foundation for the Internet of Agents URL: https://aaif.io/blog/why-im-joining-the-agentic-ai-foundation-building-the-foundation-for-the-internet-of-agents Markdown: https://aaif.io/md/blog/why-im-joining-the-agentic-ai-foundation-building-the-foundation-for-the-internet-of-agents Mazin Gilbert Mazin Gilbert is the Executive Director of the Agentic AI Foundation, part of the Linux Foundation. We are at a clear inflection point in AI. For the past... ### Coding Agents Are the Foundation for Every Agent You'll Ever Build URL: https://aaif.io/blog/coding-agents-are-the-foundation-for-every-agent-youll-ever-build Markdown: https://aaif.io/md/blog/coding-agents-are-the-foundation-for-every-agent-youll-ever-build Sam Partee Co-founder and Head of AI Research By Sam Partee, Co-founder & Head of AI Research, Arcade.dev, based on his joint talk with Harrison Chase (LangChain) at the Coding... ### AAIF's First Quarter Success Story: New Members, Technical Wins, and Open Governance URL: https://aaif.io/blog/aaifs-first-quarter-success-story-new-members-technical-wins-and-open-governance Markdown: https://aaif.io/md/blog/aaifs-first-quarter-success-story-new-members-technical-wins-and-open-governance David Nalley, AAIF Governing Board chair and Director of Developer Experience at Amazon Web Services ## Press & News ### AGNTCon + MCPCon Japan to Convene Builders Advancing Production-Ready Agentic AI URL: https://aaif.io/news/agntcon-mcpcon-japan-to-convene-builders-advancing-production-ready-agentic-ai Markdown: https://aaif.io/md/news/agntcon-mcpcon-japan-to-convene-builders-advancing-production-ready-agentic-ai Industry leaders and open source innovators from SoftBank, Hitachi, NTT, Google, Microsoft, Anthropic, and more will gather in Tokyo to explore the standards, infrastructure, security and governance needed to operate AI agents in production. ### AI Magazine: How Linux Foundation Unifies Open Standards for AI Agents URL: https://aaif.io/news/ai-magazine-linux-foundation-unifies-open-standards Markdown: https://aaif.io/md/news/ai-magazine-linux-foundation-unifies-open-standards Linux Foundation has launched Agentic AI Foundation (AAIF) co founded by OpenAI, Anthropic and Block to ensure open-source, transparent agentic AI tools ### Agentic AI Foundation Adds 43 New Members as Enterprise and Government Adoption of Open Agent Standards Accelerates URL: https://aaif.io/news/agentic-ai-foundation-adds-43-new-members Markdown: https://aaif.io/md/news/agentic-ai-foundation-adds-43-new-members Financial services, infrastructure, security, and public sector organizations join AAIF’s growing community to help shape the standards behind production-grade agentic AI ### Agentic AI Foundation Announces Global 2026 Events Program Anchored by AGNTCon + MCPCon North America and Europe URL: https://aaif.io/news/agentic-ai-foundation-announces-global-2026-events-program Markdown: https://aaif.io/md/news/agentic-ai-foundation-announces-global-2026-events-program Agentic AI Foundation Expanded global schedule brings agentic AI ecosystem together across ten cities, with flagship AGNTCon + MCPCon events and regional MCP Dev Summits driving standards adoption SAN FRANCISCO... ### Agentic AI Foundation Unveils MCP Dev Summit North America 2026 Schedule URL: https://aaif.io/news/mcp-dev-summit-north-america-2026-schedule Markdown: https://aaif.io/md/news/mcp-dev-summit-north-america-2026-schedule Agentic AI Foundation New York City event will explore how open standards and shared infrastructure enable secure, scalable AI agents in production Summary The Agentic AI Foundation today announced the... ### Agentic AI Foundation Welcomes 57 New Members, Gaining Major Financial Services Players and APAC Leaders URL: https://aaif.io/news/agentic-ai-foundation-welcomes-57-new-members Markdown: https://aaif.io/md/news/agentic-ai-foundation-welcomes-57-new-members Alibaba, Visa, and Wells Fargo join as Gold Members as demand for open agentic AI infrastructure accelerates globally ### Agentic AI Foundation Welcomes 97 New Members As Demand for Open, Collaborative Agent Standardization Increases URL: https://aaif.io/news/aaif-welcomes-97-new-members Markdown: https://aaif.io/md/news/aaif-welcomes-97-new-members Agentic AI Foundation Agentic AI Foundation Welcomes 97 New Members As Demand for Open, Collaborative Agent Standardization Increases Industry leading organizations unite under neutral Foundation led by new governing board... ### Anthropic: Donating the Model Context Protocol and establishing the Agentic AI Foundation URL: https://aaif.io/news/anthropic-donating-mcp-aaif Markdown: https://aaif.io/md/news/anthropic-donating-mcp-aaif Today, we’re donating the Model Context Protocol (MCP) to the Agentic AI Foundation (AAIF), a directed fund under the Linux Foundation, co-founded by Anthropic, Block and OpenAI, with support from Google, Microsoft, Amazon Web Services (AWS), Cloudflare, and Bloomberg. ### Block: Block, Anthropic, and OpenAI Launch the Agentic AI Foundation URL: https://aaif.io/news/block-anthropic-openai-launch-aaif Markdown: https://aaif.io/md/news/block-anthropic-openai-launch-aaif Today, the industry is making a pivotal choice. Block, Anthropic, OpenAI, and other leaders in AI are launching the Agentic AI Foundation (AAIF) to ensure agentic AI develops as an open, collaborative ecosystem. Agentic AI refers to artificial intelligence systems that can take… ### CIO Dive: Big tech takes steps to build open standards for agentic AI URL: https://aaif.io/news/cio-dive-big-tech-open-standards-agentic-ai Markdown: https://aaif.io/md/news/cio-dive-big-tech-open-standards-agentic-ai Anthropic said it will donate the Model Context Protocol to the Linux Foundation, a move that could ease AI agent interoperability and enterprise adoption. ### CIO: Tech heavyweights align on agentic AI standards, promising more choice for CIOs URL: https://aaif.io/news/cio-tech-heavyweights-align-on-agentic-ai-standards Markdown: https://aaif.io/md/news/cio-tech-heavyweights-align-on-agentic-ai-standards The Agentic AI Foundation (AAIF), announced on Tuesday, aims to develop common protocols for how agents access data and interact with business systems, reflecting growing concern that today’s mix of proprietary tools will hold back broader adoption. ### GitHub Blog: MCP joins the Linux Foundation: What this means for developers building the next era of AI tools and agents URL: https://aaif.io/news/github-blog-mcp-joins-linux-foundation Markdown: https://aaif.io/md/news/github-blog-mcp-joins-linux-foundation MCP joins the Linux Foundation: What this means for developers building the next era of AI tools and agents ### Google-backed agentic A2A protocol gets a new home URL: https://aaif.io/news/google-backed-agentic-a2a-protocol-gets-a-new-home Markdown: https://aaif.io/md/news/google-backed-agentic-a2a-protocol-gets-a-new-home The Agent2Agent Protocol (A2A), a Google-created standard for AI agents to talk to one another, is moving to the Agentic AI Foundation, backers of the emerging standard told Axios. ### InfoWorld: Linux Foundation launches Agentic AI Foundation URL: https://aaif.io/news/infoworld-linux-foundation-launches-aaif Markdown: https://aaif.io/md/news/infoworld-linux-foundation-launches-aaif The Linux Foundation has announced the formation of the Agentic AI Foundation (AAIF), which is intended to provide a neutral, open foundation to ensure that agentic AI evolves transparently and collaboratively. ### Linux Foundation Announces the Formation of the Agentic AI Foundation (AAIF), Anchored by New Project Contributions Including Model Context Protocol (MCP), goose and AGENTS.md URL: https://aaif.io/news/linux-foundation-announces-formation-of-aaif Markdown: https://aaif.io/md/news/linux-foundation-announces-formation-of-aaif Agentic AI Foundation   With founding contributions from Anthropic, Block, and OpenAI, the AAIF unites cutting-edge technology and open source governance to shape the future of open and accessible AI... ### MCP just got its biggest update ever — here’s what changes for AI agents URL: https://aaif.io/news/mcp-just-got-its-biggest-update-ever-here-s-what-changes-for-ai-agents Markdown: https://aaif.io/md/news/mcp-just-got-its-biggest-update-ever-here-s-what-changes-for-ai-agents The Model Context Protocol, the open standard that has quietly become the connective tissue between AI agents and the world's software, is getting its largest update since Anthropic released it twenty months ago — a sweeping architectural revision that its maintainers and backers say finally makes agentic AI ready for massive enterprise production deployments. ### OpenAI: OpenAI co-founds the Agentic AI Foundation under the Linux Foundation URL: https://aaif.io/news/openai-co-founds-aaif Markdown: https://aaif.io/md/news/openai-co-founds-aaif Today, OpenAI is co-founding the Agentic AI Foundation (AAIF)⁠(opens in a new window) under the Linux Foundation, alongside Anthropic and Block, and with the support of Google, Microsoft, AWS, Bloomberg, and Cloudflare. The AAIF is designed to provide neutral stewardship for ope… ### SDTimes: Linux Foundation forms Agentic AI Foundation to be new home for MCP, goose, and AGENTS.md URL: https://aaif.io/news/sdtimes-aaif-new-home-mcp-goose-agents-md Markdown: https://aaif.io/md/news/sdtimes-aaif-new-home-mcp-goose-agents-md SDTimes: Linux Foundation forms Agentic AI Foundation to be new home for MCP, goose, and AGENTS.md ### SiliconANGLE: Linux Foundation announces Agentic AI Foundation joined by Anthropic, OpenAI, Block URL: https://aaif.io/news/siliconangle-linux-foundation-announces-aaif Markdown: https://aaif.io/md/news/siliconangle-linux-foundation-announces-aaif Linux Foundation announces AAIF alongside contributions from Anthropic, OpenAI, and Block to standardize agentic AI. ### TechCrunch: OpenAI, Anthropic and Block join new Linux Foundation effort to standardize the AI agent era URL: https://aaif.io/news/techcrunch-openai-anthropic-block-linux-foundation Markdown: https://aaif.io/md/news/techcrunch-openai-anthropic-block-linux-foundation As AI moves beyond chatbots and towards systems that can take actions, the Linux Foundation is launching a new group dedicated to keeping AI agents from splintering into a mess of incompatible, locked-down products. ### Techzine: Newly launched Agentic AI Foundation to take charge of MCP's future URL: https://aaif.io/news/techzine-aaif-takes-charge-of-mcp Markdown: https://aaif.io/md/news/techzine-aaif-takes-charge-of-mcp The brand-new Agentic AI Foundation has been launched by the Linux Foundation. Three projects form the basis for this new foundation: Anthropic’s hugely successful Model Context Protocol (MCP), Block’s goose, and OpenAI’s AGENTS.md. ### The New Stack: Anthropic Donates the MCP Protocol to the Agentic AI Foundation URL: https://aaif.io/news/newstack-anthropic-donates-mcp Markdown: https://aaif.io/md/news/newstack-anthropic-donates-mcp Anthropic’s Model Context Protocol is only a year old, but has quickly become the default for large language models (LLMs) to access data, tools and services in agentic loops. Now, Anthropic is moving it into a newly founded open source foundation under the Linux Foundation: the… ### VentureBeat: The Agentic AI Foundation offers shared specs for building, running, and scaling agents URL: https://aaif.io/news/venturebeat-aaif-shared-specs Markdown: https://aaif.io/md/news/venturebeat-aaif-shared-specs The Linux Foundation, Anthropic, OpenAI, Block, and other companies in the AI space created the Agentic AI Foundation to help further standardize the evolution of open-source AI. This brings a large chunk of interoperability and agentic standards under one roof, potentially stre… ### Wired: OpenAI, Anthropic, and Block Are Teaming Up to Make AI Agents Play Nice URL: https://aaif.io/news/wired-openai-anthropic-block-ai-agents Markdown: https://aaif.io/md/news/wired-openai-anthropic-block-ai-agents American AI giants are backing a new effort to establish open standards for building agentic software and tools. ## Projects ### AGENTS.md URL: https://aaif.io/projects/agents-md Markdown: https://aaif.io/md/projects/agents-md ### Agent2Agent (A2A) URL: https://aaif.io/projects/agent2agent Markdown: https://aaif.io/md/projects/agent2agent Agent2Agent (A2A) is an open protocol that enables AI agents to communicate, collaborate, and securely exchange information and tasks across different platforms and frameworks. ### Model Context Protocol URL: https://aaif.io/projects/model-context-protocol Markdown: https://aaif.io/md/projects/model-context-protocol ### agentgateway URL: https://aaif.io/projects/agentgateway Markdown: https://aaif.io/md/projects/agentgateway agentgateway enables secure, scalable connections between AI agents, models, tools, and APIs across ecosystems. ### goose URL: https://aaif.io/projects/goose Markdown: https://aaif.io/md/projects/goose An open source, extensible AI agent that goes beyond code suggestions. Install, execute, edit, and test with any LLM.