Manik Surtani
CTO and co-founder of the Agentic AI Foundation; previously Head of Open Source at Block
- CTO and Co-founder, Agentic AI Foundation (AAIF)1
Manik Surtani is the CTO and a co-founder of the Agentic AI Foundation (AAIF), the Linux Foundation home for open agentic AI projects including the Model Context Protocol, goose and AGENTS.md. When the foundation was announced in December 2025, Surtani spoke for Block as its Head of Open Source, the company that contributed goose.123
Career
At Block, Surtani was Head of Open Source when the Linux Foundation announced the Agentic AI Foundation on December 9, 2025. Block was one of the founding contributors, giving the foundation goose, an agent framework first released in early 2025 that combines language models, extensible tools and MCP-based integrations.3
Surtani is now listed among the foundation's staff as CTO and co-founder. AAIF describes itself as a neutral, open foundation that hosts open protocols and open-source projects for agentic AI, including MCP, goose, AGENTS.md, Agent2Agent and agentgateway.12
Work
Career timeline
Dec 9, 2025
Spoke for Block, as Head of Open Source, at the announcement of the Agentic AI Foundation.3
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