Agentic AI Infrastructure Foundation (AAIF)
A Linux Foundation body, formed in December 2025, that provides neutral governance for core agentic-web standards including MCP, A2A and AGENTS.md.
- term
- Agentic AI Infrastructure Foundation (AAIF)
- category
- protocols
- short_def
- A Linux Foundation body, formed in December 2025, that provides neutral governance for core agentic-web standards including MCP, A2A and AGENTS.md.
- long_def
- The AAIF (Agentic AI Foundation) was formed under the Linux Foundation on 9 December 2025 to steward agent infrastructure as vendor-neutral commons. Platinum members are AWS, Anthropic, Block, Bloomberg, Cloudflare, Google, Microsoft and OpenAI; its inaugural projects are the Model Context Protocol (MCP), the goose agent and AGENTS.md.
- see_also
mcpa2aagents-md- etymology_origin
- Formed under the Linux Foundation in December 2025 as the Agentic AI Foundation (AAIF); platinum members include AWS, Anthropic, Block, Bloomberg, Cloudflare, Google, Microsoft and OpenAI.
- related_to
mcpa2aagents-mducpagntcy- contrast_with
- Unlike a single protocol such as MCP or A2A, the AAIF is the governance meta-entity that holds several of them — it does not define a wire format; it provides the neutral home that keeps them vendor-independent.
- example
- The AAIF, formed under the Linux Foundation in December 2025, houses MCP, A2A v1.0, AGENTS.md and UCP, with platinum members including Anthropic, Google, Microsoft and OpenAI.
- source
- https://www.linuxfoundation.org/press/linux-foundation-announces-the-formation-of-the-agentic-ai-foundation
- status
- active
- why_it_matters
- The AAIF is the neutral-governance anchor that makes the agentic web's core protocols safe to adopt — a site betting on MCP or A2A is betting on standards a vendor cannot unilaterally control.
- sameAs
- —
- bridge_entity
- protocols
- last_verified
- 2026-06-15
- md_twin
- /glossary/aaif.md