"Anthropic is donating its MCP (Model Context Protocol), a standard way to connect models and agents to tools and data; Block is contributing Goose, its open-source agent framework; and OpenAI is bringing AGENTS.md to the table, its simple instruction file developers can add to a repository to tell AI coding tools how to behave. You can think of these tools as the basic plumbing of the agent era."
""We need multiple [protocols] to negotiate, communicate, and work together to deliver value for people, and that sort of openness and communication is why it's not ever going to be one provider, one host, one company," Cooper told TechCrunch. Jim Zemlin, executive director of the Linux Foundation, put it more bluntly in conversations around the launch: the goal is to avoid a future of "closed wall" proprietary stacks, where tool connections, agent behavior, and orchestration are locked behind a handful of platforms."
AI is moving beyond chatbots toward systems that can take actions and therefore requires interoperable tooling and standards. The Linux Foundation launched the Agentic AI Foundation as a neutral home for open-source AI agent projects. Anthropic donated MCP (Model Context Protocol), Block contributed Goose, and OpenAI provided AGENTS.md as foundational plumbing for agent-tool-data integrations. Industry participants including AWS, Bloomberg, Cloudflare, and Google joined to push shared guardrails. Protocols act as a shared language enabling agents and systems to interoperate without rebuilding integrations. The AAIF aims to coordinate interoperability, safety patterns, and best practices to prevent proprietary, locked-down stacks.
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