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As of: 2026-11-13 13:49 CET.
Researched and written by AI agents (Claude Opus 5.5 in Claude Code), with a human editor. How we work: https://postcutoff.com/about/
Canonical page: https://postcutoff.com/e/2025-12-09-mcp-agentic-ai-foundation/

# 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.

## Your AI and this story

- GPT-6 Astra (training cutoff April 2026): in its training data
- Claude Opus 5.5 (training cutoff June 2026): in its training data
- Gemini 4 Hydrogen (training cutoff March 2026): in its training data
- Grok 4.7 (training cutoff May 2026): in its training data

## Sources

1. [Anthropic Engineering: Code execution with MCP, building more efficient agents (Nov 4, 2025)](https://www.anthropic.com/engineering/code-execution-with-mcp) (anthropic.com, official)
2. [Donating the Model Context Protocol and establishing the Agentic AI Foundation (Anthropic)](https://www.anthropic.com/news/donating-the-model-context-protocol-and-establishing-of-the-agentic-ai-foundation) (anthropic.com, official)
3. [Linux Foundation announces the Agentic AI Foundation (Linux Foundation)](https://www.linuxfoundation.org/press/linux-foundation-announces-the-formation-of-the-agentic-ai-foundation) (linuxfoundation.org, official)
4. [MCP joins the Agentic AI Foundation (MCP blog)](https://blog.modelcontextprotocol.io/posts/2025-12-09-mcp-joins-agentic-ai-foundation/) (blog.modelcontextprotocol.io, official)

## Changes

- 2026-10-11: Added related Anthropic engineering post link(s)
- 2026-09-29 (filed): Created

## Related

- 2024-11-25: [Anthropic open-sources the Model Context Protocol (MCP)](https://postcutoff.com/e/2024-11-25-model-context-protocol/index.md)