MCP donated to the Linux Foundation’s new Agentic AI Foundation
Confirmed
The takeaway
Anthropic donated the Model Context Protocol to the Agentic AI Foundation (AAIF), a Linux Foundation directed fund co-founded by Anthropic, Block and OpenAI, with founding projects MCP, Block’s goose and OpenAI’s AGENTS.md.
Status
- Claim
Confirmed
- Our reporting
- High confidence
- Importance
- 3 of 5
- Last verified
- 11 October 2026
Your AI and this story
- GPT-6 AstraIn its training data
- Claude Opus 5.5In its training data
- Gemini 4 HydrogenIn its training data
- Grok 4.7In its training data
It happened before the cutoffs of all four assistants, so it can be in their training data.
Key facts
- Announced 9 December 2025
- Co-founded by Anthropic, Block and OpenAI; supported by Google, Microsoft, AWS, Cloudflare and Bloomberg
- Founding projects: MCP, goose, AGENTS.md
- MCP reported 97M+ monthly SDK downloads and 10,000+ active servers
What happened
Rival labs placed the leading agent standards under neutral open-source governance.
Why it matters
Cemented MCP and AGENTS.md as vendor-neutral infrastructure for the agent ecosystem.
Sources
4 sources from 3 sites. Numbers match the chips in the text.
4 sources: 4 primary
Primary
- Anthropic Engineering: Code execution with MCP, building more efficient agents (Nov 4, 2025)anthropic.com, official
- Donating the Model Context Protocol and establishing the Agentic AI Foundation (Anthropic)anthropic.com, official
- Linux Foundation announces the Agentic AI Foundation (Linux Foundation)linuxfoundation.org, official
- MCP joins the Agentic AI Foundation (MCP blog)blog.modelcontextprotocol.io, official
Changes
- Added related Anthropic engineering post link(s)
- Filed