Anthropic Donates the MCP Protocol to the Agentic AI Foundation

Anthropic’s Model Context Protocol is only a year old, but has quickly become the default for large language models (LLMs) to access data, tools and services in agentic loops. Now, Anthropic is moving it into a newly founded open source foundation under the Linux Foundation: the Agentic AI Foundation (AAIF).

The foundation is launching with two additional projects in its stable: goose, Block’s AI agent framework, and AGENTS.md from OpenAI, which has become the de facto standard format for providing context like coding guidelines, build…