# 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.

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- **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 Foundation, Agentic 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)
- **maturity_tag:** production-ready
- **current_spec_version:** — (verify-against-primary-at-build)
- **spec_date:** — (verify-against-primary-at-build)
- **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: https://www.linuxfoundation.org/press/linux-foundation-announces-the-formation-of-the-agentic-ai-foundation)
- **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