Agentic AI Foundation

How the AAIF Ambassador Program works, what ambassadors do, and how to get involved.

An open format for reusable agent expertise.

Agentic AI Foundation members work together to further innovate, protect and standardize agentic AI.

A shared LLM API format for agents across providers.

Agent Skills joins the Agentic AI Foundation as an open standard for packaging reusable instructions that teach AI agents team-specific tasks. Over 1 million skills published.

Guides, release notes and field reports on MCP, A2A, goose, AGENTS.md and agentgateway from the builders and maintainers at the Agentic AI Foundation.

OpenSandbox is now an Agentic AI Foundation project, providing open source isolated sandbox environments for AI agents with unified APIs, Docker and Kubernetes support.

OpenEnv offers a unified interface for defining tasks, rewards, and environments to train AI agents on real-world challenges like calendar scheduling.

Recognizing the individuals, teams, and organizations building the open agentic AI ecosystem.

Financial services, infrastructure, security, and public sector organizations join the Agentic AI Foundation to help develop production-grade agent standards.

AAIF reaches 10 projects in its first year, with new contributions from Alibaba, Anthropic, Hugging Face, and OpenAI

Ant Group, Gates Foundation, MongoDB, Nutanix, Royal Bank of Canada, Vercel, and Vultr join as Gold Members, reflecting growing demand for open, trusted standards for agentic AI.

An elite cohort of practitioners helping the world understand, use, and contribute to AAIF-hosted projects.

The governing board members of the AAIF.

Articles by Marco Gonzalez.

Articles by OpenEnv Maintainers.

The Agentic AI Foundation describes its mission, governance, and role in advancing open, standardized agentic AI for the public interest.

Bringing operational rigor to agents — defining what reliability, accuracy, and consistency mean for autonomous systems, including failure management, SLA definition, and recovery protocols.

Enabling agents to participate in commerce — covering discovery, negotiation, payment authorization, and the protocols needed for trustworthy autonomous transactions.

Propose an open source project to be hosted by the Agentic AI Foundation (AAIF).

Agentic AI Foundation (AAIF) is the neutral and open foundation built on transparency, collaboration, and standardization to advance the public interest in agentic AI innovation.

The members of the AAIF Technical Steering Committee.

GitHubRepository owner

The Agentic AI Foundation (AAIF) integrates four new open-source AI projects donated by OpenAI, Anthropic, Hugging Face, and Alibaba. **Open Responses** standardizes API templates for large language models (LLMs), enabling seamless code portability between providers. **Agent Skills** offers a unified format for AI agent capabilities, improving task execution and reducing hallucination risks. **OpenEnv** and **OpenSandbox** streamline AI model training by simplifying sandbox management and system switching, respectively. The additions bring AAIF’s total projects to 10, expanding its role in fostering interoperability for developers.

Oct 2026SiliconANGLENews article

The Agentic AI Foundation (AAIF) introduces four new projects: **Agent Skills**, **Open Responses**, **OpenEnv**, and **OpenSandbox**. These additions bring its total to 10 projects in its first year. Major tech firms **Alibaba, Anthropic, Hugging Face, and OpenAI** contribute to the initiative.

Oct 2026Agentic AI Foundation (AAIF)News article

The **Agentic AI Foundation** grows its membership to over 300 organizations in under a year. The foundation, focused on advancing open-source AI agent technologies, attracts industry participants including tech firms, research institutions, and startups. Membership highlights collaboration on standards and tools for autonomous AI systems.

Oct 2026linuxfoundation.orgNews article