ai and ml

Four projects for facilitating AI agents move under vendor-neutral governance

The Agentic AI Foundation (AAIF) has been entrusted with stewardship of four additional AI projects in the hope of broadening the set of vendor-neutral tools for making AI agents.

The AAIF was founded in December 2025 under the auspices of the Linux Foundation as a vendor-neutral organization for the benefit of AI companies more interested in riding a tide that lifts all boats than making waves.

It launched with three projects under its supervision: Model Context Protocol (MCP), goose, and AGENTS.md. With the four new adoptees, there are now 10 projects sheltering under the AAIF's wings.

The donor organizations – Alibaba, Anthropic, Hugging Face, and OpenAI – have handed over control of OpenSandbox, Agent Skills, OpenEnv, and Open Responses respectively.

Each of these projects provides functions that developers of AI agents – which typically combine models, tools, and a task loop – may find helpful.…