Agentic AI Foundation (AAIF)
A directed fund hosted by the Linux Foundation, announced 2025-12-09, giving neutral governance to open agent infrastructure.
Founding projects
- model-context-protocol (contributed by Anthropic)
- goose (Block), a local-first agent framework
- AGENTS.md (OpenAI), project instructions for coding agents; see agents-md
Later additions
- agentgateway (traffic management for agents, Apache-2.0, created by Solo.io) was announced by AAIF on 2026-06-04 as its fourth hosted project (aaif.io blog); it had been a Linux Foundation project since 2025-08-25. See agentgateway.
- Agent Router (formerly Envoy AI Gateway; Apache-2.0; OpenAI-compatible API and MCP endpoints) was announced by AAIF on 2026-09-09 as joining the foundation (aaif.io blog; the repo README says “Envoy AI Gateway is now Agent Router, an Agentic AI Foundation project”). See envoy-ai-gateway.
- A2A joined on 2026-08-17 (a2a-protocol). AAIF now describes a stack: AGENTS.md (instructions), goose (runtime), MCP (tools), agentgateway (traffic), A2A (agent-to-agent).
Members
- At launch: 8 platinum (AWS, Anthropic, Block, Bloomberg, Cloudflare, Google, Microsoft, OpenAI), 18 gold, 21 silver.
- Growth: 180 organizations by May 2026; 247 by 2026-08-13 (AAIF/LF press releases; 2026 gold additions include JPMorgan Chase, Red Hat, ServiceNow, UiPath).
Governance model
Governing board handles strategy and finance; each project keeps technical autonomy (for MCP: maintainers and the SEP process).
Sources
- https://aaif.io/blog/agent-router-joins-aaif and https://github.com/theagentrouter/agent-router (2026-10-08)
- https://aaif.io/blog/agentgateway-joins-aaif-as-an-open-gateway-for-agentic-ai-infrastructure (2026-10-08)
- https://www.linuxfoundation.org/press/linux-foundation-announces-the-formation-of-the-agentic-ai-foundation (2026-09-30)
- https://www.linuxfoundation.org/press/agentic-ai-foundation-welcomes-57-new-members-gaining-major-financial-services-players-and-apac-leaders (2026-09-30)
- https://aaif.io/blog/a2a-joins-aaif (2026-09-30)
- https://blog.modelcontextprotocol.io/posts/2025-12-09-mcp-joins-agentic-ai-foundation/ (2026-09-30)