The Linux Foundation Launches the Agentic AI Foundation—MCP Finds Its Permanent Home
Blog post from WorkOS
On December 9, 2025, the Linux Foundation announced the creation of the Agentic Artificial Intelligence Foundation (AAIF), aimed at fostering open governance of three key projects: Anthropic's Model Context Protocol (MCP), Block's goose, and OpenAI's AGENTS.md. The AAIF seeks to ensure these projects remain open, community-driven, and vendor-agnostic, which is crucial as they become critical infrastructure for AI. With over 10,000 MCP servers now in operation across platforms such as Claude, Microsoft Copilot, and ChatGPT, the move to open governance mirrors past industry shifts toward shared standards, as seen with containers and Kubernetes. This initiative has garnered significant industry support, with AWS, Google, and Microsoft as Platinum members, highlighting a shift towards interoperability and enterprise confidence in adopting agentic AI. The AAIF is set to provide a collaborative platform for addressing security concerns and developing authentication, authorization, and audit trails, thereby advancing the maturity of the agent ecosystem. As open standards accelerate development, the transition from conversational AI to autonomous agents coordinating across systems is underway, supported by AAIF's transparent governance framework.