Cisco Donates the AGNTCY Project to the Linux Foundation

Cisco today announced that it is donating the AGNTCY project — an open source infrastructure project that aims to enable discovery, identity, messaging and observability to multiagent systems — to the Linux Foundation.

The project comes out of Cisco’s in-house Outshift incubator and was open sourced in March 2025. It includes specs, code and services, ranging from a discovery layer that is akin to a DNS system for agent communication and an agent directory, to a tool for verifying an agent’s identity, an observability framework and a…