AAIF
The Linux Foundation body, formed December 2025, that gives the agentic web's load-bearing protocols — MCP, goose and AGENTS.md — a neutral, vendor-independent governance home.
- name
- AAIF
- full_name
- Agentic AI Foundation
- layer
- governance
- creator
- Linux Foundation (anchored by contributions from Anthropic, Block, OpenAI and others)
- status
- active (formed Dec 2025)
- year
- 2025
- one_liner
- The Linux Foundation body, formed December 2025, that gives the agentic web's load-bearing protocols — MCP, goose and AGENTS.md — a neutral, vendor-independent governance home.
- spec_url
- https://aaif.io
- snippet
AAIF (Linux Foundation) hosts MCP, goose and AGENTS.md under neutral, open governance.- abbreviation
- AAIF
- also_known_as
Agentic AI FoundationAgentic AI Infrastructure Foundation- canonical_spec_url
- https://aaif.io
- entity_uri
- https://aaif.io
- taxonomy_layer
- governance
- sub_layer
- foundation
- protocol_type
- governance
- central_problem
- Gives the agentic web's load-bearing protocols a single neutral, vendor-independent home so no one company controls the core standards.
- maintainer
- The Linux Foundation (Agentic AI Foundation)
- governance_body
- Linux Foundation
- license
- — verify-against-primary-at-build ↗ https://aaif.io
- maturity_tag
- production-ready
- current_spec_version
- — verify-against-primary-at-build ↗ https://aaif.io
- spec_date
- — verify-against-primary-at-build ↗ https://aaif.io
- launch_date
- 2025-12-09
- last_verified
- 2026-06-15
- transport
- n/a (governance foundation, not a wire protocol)
- core_mechanism
- AAIF is a Linux Foundation umbrella that hosts agentic-AI projects under neutral, community-driven governance; its founding project contributions are Anthropic's Model Context Protocol (MCP), Block's goose agent framework, and OpenAI's AGENTS.md, with research §2 also listing A2A v1.0 and UCP among hosted/affiliated projects (confirm the full hosted-project list against aaif.io at build).
- discovery_endpoint
- https://aaif.io (foundation site) / https://github.com/aaif
- settlement_type
- —
- adoption_metric
- 8 platinum members at formation: Amazon Web Services, Anthropic, Block, Bloomberg, Cloudflare, Google, Microsoft, OpenAI source
- notable_adopters
{"value":"Anthropic (contributed MCP)","source":"https://www.linuxfoundation.org/press/linux-foundation-announces-the-formation-of-the-agentic-ai-foundation"}{"value":"Block (contributed goose)","source":"https://www.linuxfoundation.org/press/linux-foundation-announces-the-formation-of-the-agentic-ai-foundation"}{"value":"OpenAI (contributed AGENTS.md)","source":"https://www.linuxfoundation.org/press/linux-foundation-announces-the-formation-of-the-agentic-ai-foundation"}- relationships
{"predicate":"governs","target":"mcp","note":"AAIF -governs-> MCP (founding project contribution; inverse of MCP governed_by AAIF)."}{"predicate":"governs","target":"a2a","note":"A2A v1.0 listed among AAIF-hosted projects (research §2); confirm against aaif.io at build."}- ideal_use_case
- Providing a neutral standards home so MCP, A2A and other core agentic protocols are not controlled by any single vendor.
- when_to_use
- When you need to point to the vendor-neutral governance authority behind the agentic web's core protocols.
- when_not_to_use
- n/a — AAIF is a governance meta-entity, not a protocol you implement on a site.
- code_example
- // AAIF is a governance foundation, not a wire protocol — there is no client snippet. // Hosted projects expose their own interfaces (e.g. MCP: tools/call over JSON-RPC).
- source
- Formation date (Dec 9 2025), Linux Foundation parent, 8 platinum members (AWS, Anthropic, Block, Bloomberg, Cloudflare, Google, Microsoft, OpenAI), founding contributions MCP/goose/AGENTS.md: https://www.linuxfoundation.org/press/linux-foundation-announces-the-formation-of-the-agentic-ai-foundation . A2A v1.0/UCP hosting per research §2 (verify at build).
- agent_readiness_link
- agent-readiness/mcp
- layer_legacy
- agent