The Agentic AI Foundation is a directed fund of The Linux Foundation that raises and spends funds to support open-source agentic AI projects approved by its Governing Board. The Linux Foundation announced it in December 2025 with three contributed projects: the Model Context Protocol from Anthropic, goose from Block, and AGENTS.md from OpenAI.12
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Key facts
- Ownership (separate from openness)
- Foundation-hosted
Recorded classification; fact-level ownership verification pending.
- Headquarters
- Not documented
- Founded
- 20252
- Sectors
- Agents
What is and isn’t public
Hosts open-source projects. The goose repository is licensed under Apache 2.0, the AGENTS.md repository under MIT, and the Agent2Agent repository under Apache 2.0; the Model Context Protocol specification repository is in a documented transition from MIT to Apache 2.0. Licenses are recorded on each project's own record.13141516
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Cataloged artifacts
Frameworks
- Agent2Agent (A2A) ProtocolSoftwareAvailability: Public
- AGENTS.mdSoftwareAvailability: Public
- Model Context Protocol (MCP)SoftwareAvailability: Public
Runtimes
- gooseSoftwareAvailability: Public
Organizational relationships
- Parent organization: The Linux Foundation (Hosted project)
Fact-level relationship verification pending.
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Notable documented facts
- The foundation's projects page lists six hosted projects: Model Context Protocol, goose, AGENTS.md, agentgateway, Agent2Agent (A2A), and Agent Router. The Technical Committee repository places the first three at the Impact Stage and the other three at the Growth Stage.45
- Agent2Agent, which Google contributed to The Linux Foundation in June 2025, was accepted as a Growth Stage project of the foundation in August 2026.867
- Under its charter (amended July 29, 2026), a Governing Board manages the directed fund, approves new projects, and sets its budget, while each technical project is governed by its own charter and has a technical steering committee responsible for its technical direction. Charter amendments need a two-thirds vote of the Governing Board and approval by The Linux Foundation; during a three-year startup period, charter amendments and new top-level projects also need the approval of every Platinum member that contributed a top-level project.1
- The charter requires trademarks relating to the fund or its technical projects to be held by LF Projects, LLC or The Linux Foundation. The Model Context Protocol, goose, and AGENTS.md are each established as a series of LF Projects, LLC, a Delaware series limited liability company.11011912
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What this catalog does not know
- Legal name: not documented in the sources reviewed for this record.
- Headquarters: not documented in the sources reviewed.
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U.S. eligibility
Eligible · basis: Documented U.S. control
The Agentic AI Foundation is a directed fund of The Linux Foundation; its charter places it under the guidance of its Governing Board and The Linux Foundation, gives The Linux Foundation custody of and final authority over its funds, and requires Linux Foundation approval for charter amendments. The Linux Foundation describes itself as a 501(c)(6) nonprofit and gives its legal postal address in San Francisco, California. No separate headquarters or legal entity is documented for the fund itself. Eligibility rests on this documented control, not on the nationality of member companies.131718
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