MCP donated to the Linux Foundation's new Agentic AI Foundation
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.
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.
Changelog
- 2026-09-29: created
Related events
Sources (3)
- officialDonating the Model Context Protocol and establishing the Agentic AI Foundation (Anthropic)
- officialLinux Foundation announces the Agentic AI Foundation (Linux Foundation)
- officialMCP joins the Agentic AI Foundation (MCP blog)
id: 2025-12-09-mcp-agentic-ai-foundation · updated 2026-09-29 · open in the interactive timeline