Microsoft, AWS, and Saleforce are also supporting the initiative.
OpenAI, Anthropic, and Block have teamed up to co-found a new foundation that promises to help standardize the development of AI agents.
The new Agentic AI Foundation (AAIF) will operate under the larger Linux Foundation, a non-profit that oversees several open-source projects including the Linux operating system.
In addition to establishing the foundation, each of the three companies donated some of their agent tech to the organization.
OpenAI handed over ownership of its AGENTS.md universal standard, which gives AI coding agents a consistent source of project-specific guidance across different platforms. Anthropic donated its Model Context Protocol (MCP), which provides a standard way to connect AI models to tools, data, and applications. And Block donated its open-source AI agent framework, Goose, which developers use to build AI agents.
“Within just one year, MCP, AGENTS.md and goose have become essential tools for developers building this new class of agentic technologies,” said Jim Zemlin, executive director of the Linux Foundation, in a press release.
