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The Agentic AI Foundation — the protocols leave their makers
The Linux Foundation, with founding contributions from Anthropic (Model Context Protocol), Block (goose) and OpenAI (AGENTS.md). Announced 9 December 2025.
What happened. On 9 December 2025 the Linux Foundation announced a neutral, open-governance home for agentic AI software, with three founding projects contributed by their makers: the Model Context Protocol from Anthropic, the goose agent framework from Block, and the AGENTS.md format from OpenAI. Its platinum members at founding spanned the laboratories and clouds that had spent 2025 competing on agents.
What it is — stated precisely. A governance event: specifications and one framework moved from single owners to a foundation with public process. Not a merger of the agents, not a standard body with power to compel, and not the end of competition between the members. What it establishes is that the connective tissue of the agent era — how agents reach tools, how they are briefed — is no longer any one company's to change alone.
Why it is in the collection. This museum holds MCP (November 2024) and A2A (April 2025) as the protocols that let agents talk. This is the date those protocols' custody changed hands, and the object that closes the 2025 wave: the browser, the terminal, the checkout, and then the commons.
*Primary source inside: The Linux Foundation, "Linux Foundation Announces the Formation of the Agentic AI Foundation", 9 December 2025.*
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- Occurred
- 9 December 2025
- Acquired
- 17 October 2026
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- Ed25519-signed entry · JCS-canonical · OpenTimestamps → Bitcoin
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- Accessioned and recorded by The Agent Museum.
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- www.linuxfoundation.org ↗
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Accessioned & recorded · 17 October 2026
The Agent MuseumDate, founding projects and member list from the Linux Foundation's press release of 9 December 2025. Recorded as a transfer of specifications to neutral governance, not of the systems built on them.
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