"The three companies are also transferring ownership of some widely used agentic technologies over to the foundation. This includes Anthropic's Model Context Protocol (MCP), which allows agents to connect and interact; OpenAI's Agents.md, which lets programs and websites specify rules for coding agents; and Goose, a framework for building agents developed by Block. These technologies were already free to use, but through the new foundation it will be possible for others to contribute to their development."
"MCP is used by many companies, but there are others [who don't use it]," says Nick Cooper, who leads work on the protocol at OpenAI. Cooper says that making MCP an open standard should encourage developers and companies to embrace it and build systems that integrate agentic AI. "That open interoperability-that open standard-really means that companies can talk across providers, and across agentic systems."
Anthropic, OpenAI, and Block formed the Agentic AI Foundation under the Linux Foundation to promote interoperable standards for agentic AI. The founding companies transferred Anthropic's Model Context Protocol (MCP), OpenAI's Agents.md, and Block's Goose to the foundation to enable collaborative development and external contributions. MCP enables agents to connect and interact, Agents.md specifies rules for coding agents for programs and websites, and Goose provides a framework for building agents. Major technology and cloud firms including Google, Microsoft, AWS, Bloomberg, and Cloudflare joined the foundation. The initiative supports a shift from chat-based models toward autonomous agents that perform transactions and manage tasks.
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