# 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. Markdown for agents: any page is also available as Markdown — prefix its path with /md/ (e.g. https://aaif.io/md/blog/), or request the canonical URL with the header `Accept: text/markdown`. ## Pages - [About](https://aaif.io/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](https://aaif.io/learn-more-about-the-program): How the AAIF Ambassador Program works, what ambassadors do, and how to get involved. - [Ambassador Program](https://aaif.io/ambassadors): An elite cohort of practitioners helping the world understand, use, and contribute to AAIF-hosted projects. - [Awards](https://aaif.io/awards): Recognizing the individuals, teams, and organizations building the open agentic AI ecosystem. Nominations open July 2026. - [Blog](https://aaif.io/blog): The latest blog posts from AAIF. - [Brand](https://aaif.io/brand): We welcome our community to use AAIF brand assets. - [Case study](https://aaif.io/case-study): Case studies from projects hosted by the Agentic AI Foundation (AAIF). - [Community Chapters](https://aaif.io/community-chapters): AAIF Community Chapters bring members together through local events and community-driven initiatives that connect, educate, and inspire collaboration. - [Contact Us](https://aaif.io/contact): Contact us with questions related to Agentic AI Foundation (AAIF). - [Events](https://aaif.io/events): Events hosted by the Agentic AI Foundation (AAIF) - [Governing Board](https://aaif.io/board): The governing board members of the AAIF. - [Home](https://aaif.io/): 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](https://aaif.io/members): Agentic AI Foundation members work together to further innovate, protect and standardize agentic AI. - [News](https://aaif.io/news): The latest news and press from the Agentic AI Foundation (AAIF). - [Projects](https://aaif.io/projects): AAIF is host to top open source - [Staff](https://aaif.io/staff): The team supporting AAIF. - [Submit a Project](https://aaif.io/submit-a-project): Propose an open source project to be hosted by the Agentic AI Foundation (AAIF). - [Technical Committee](https://aaif.io/tc): The members of the AAIF Technical Steering Committee. - [Videos](https://aaif.io/video): Watch exclusive interviews, event highlights, and deep dives into AAIF and agentic AI. - [Working Groups](https://aaif.io/working-groups): AAIF.io Working Groups bring members together to collaborate on focused initiatives, share expertise, and drive practical outcomes across the AI ecosystem. ## Blog - [Designing requestState for Multi Round-Trip Requests](https://aaif.io/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](https://aaif.io/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](https://aaif.io/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?](https://aaif.io/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](https://aaif.io/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](https://aaif.io/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](https://aaif.io/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](https://aaif.io/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](https://aaif.io/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](https://aaif.io/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](https://aaif.io/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](https://aaif.io/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](https://aaif.io/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](https://aaif.io/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](https://aaif.io/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](https://aaif.io/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](https://aaif.io/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](https://aaif.io/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](https://aaif.io/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](https://aaif.io/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](https://aaif.io/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](https://aaif.io/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.](https://aaif.io/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](https://aaif.io/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](https://aaif.io/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](https://aaif.io/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](https://aaif.io/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](https://aaif.io/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](https://aaif.io/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](https://aaif.io/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](https://aaif.io/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](https://aaif.io/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](https://aaif.io/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](https://aaif.io/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](https://aaif.io/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](https://aaif.io/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](https://aaif.io/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](https://aaif.io/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](https://aaif.io/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](https://aaif.io/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](https://aaif.io/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.](https://aaif.io/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](https://aaif.io/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](https://aaif.io/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](https://aaif.io/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](https://aaif.io/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](https://aaif.io/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](https://aaif.io/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](https://aaif.io/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?](https://aaif.io/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](https://aaif.io/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](https://aaif.io/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](https://aaif.io/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](https://aaif.io/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](https://aaif.io/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](https://aaif.io/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](https://aaif.io/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](https://aaif.io/blog/the-tool-abstraction-problem): The Tool Abstraction Problem: Lessons Learned Building 1000+ MCP Tools - [Datadog's 5 Tips for Building AI Agents](https://aaif.io/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](https://aaif.io/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](https://aaif.io/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](https://aaif.io/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](https://aaif.io/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](https://aaif.io/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.](https://aaif.io/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?](https://aaif.io/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](https://aaif.io/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](https://aaif.io/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](https://aaif.io/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.](https://aaif.io/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](https://aaif.io/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](https://aaif.io/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](https://aaif.io/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](https://aaif.io/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](https://aaif.io/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](https://aaif.io/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](https://aaif.io/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](https://aaif.io/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](https://aaif.io/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](https://aaif.io/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](https://aaif.io/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](https://aaif.io/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](https://aaif.io/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](https://aaif.io/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](https://aaif.io/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](https://aaif.io/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](https://aaif.io/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 - [AI Magazine: How Linux Foundation Unifies Open Standards for AI Agents](https://aaif.io/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](https://aaif.io/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](https://aaif.io/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… - [Agentic AI Foundation Unveils MCP Dev Summit North America 2026 Schedule](https://aaif.io/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… - [Agentic AI Foundation Welcomes 97 New Members As Demand for Open, Collaborative Agent Standardization Increases](https://aaif.io/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… - [Anthropic: Donating the Model Context Protocol and establishing the Agentic AI Foundation](https://aaif.io/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… - [Block: Block, Anthropic, and OpenAI Launch the Agentic AI Foundation](https://aaif.io/news/block-anthropic-openai-launch-aaif): Today, the industry is making a pivotal choice. - [CIO Dive: Big tech takes steps to build open standards for agentic AI](https://aaif.io/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](https://aaif.io/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… - [GitHub Blog: MCP joins the Linux Foundation: What this means for developers building the next era of AI tools and agents](https://aaif.io/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 - [InfoWorld: Linux Foundation launches Agentic AI Foundation](https://aaif.io/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… - [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](https://aaif.io/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... - [OpenAI: OpenAI co-founds the Agentic AI Foundation under the Linux Foundation](https://aaif.io/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… - [SDTimes: Linux Foundation forms Agentic AI Foundation to be new home for MCP, goose, and AGENTS.md](https://aaif.io/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](https://aaif.io/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](https://aaif.io/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… - [Techzine: Newly launched Agentic AI Foundation to take charge of MCP's future](https://aaif.io/news/techzine-aaif-takes-charge-of-mcp): The brand-new Agentic AI Foundation has been launched by the Linux Foundation. - [The New Stack: Anthropic Donates the MCP Protocol to the Agentic AI Foundation](https://aaif.io/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. - [VentureBeat: The Agentic AI Foundation offers shared specs for building, running, and scaling agents](https://aaif.io/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. - [Wired: OpenAI, Anthropic, and Block Are Teaming Up to Make AI Agents Play Nice](https://aaif.io/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](https://aaif.io/projects/agents-md) - [Model Context Protocol](https://aaif.io/projects/model-context-protocol) - [agentgateway](https://aaif.io/projects/agentgateway): agentgateway enables secure, scalable connections between AI agents, models, tools, and APIs across ecosystems. - [goose](https://aaif.io/projects/goose): An open source, extensible AI agent that goes beyond code suggestions. Install, execute, edit, and test with any LLM.