Anthropic, OpenAI, and Block donate AI agent projects to new Linux Foundation body

The Linux Foundation today announce the formation of the Agentic AI Foundation (AAIF), a new home for open source projects that underpin how AI agents connect to tools, data, and each other. The technology matters, but so does who's contributing it.

Anthropic is donating the Model Context Protocol (MCP). OpenAI is contributing AGENTS.md. Block is contributing Goose. These are direct competitors, and they've each donated core projects to neutral governance.

The membership list reinforces the point - Amazon, Google, Microsoft, Bloomberg, and Cloudflare are Platinum members. Gold members include Cisco, IBM, Oracle, SAP, and Snowflake.

What these projects actually do

If you're building applications that use AI agents - software that can take actions autonomously rather than just answering questions - you face a practical problem: how does the agent connect to your existing tools and data?

MCP, or Model Context Protocol, is Anthropic's answer. It provides a ...