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6/24/2026
The Open Source Agentic AI Stack: What AAIF Projects Do and How to Contribute

The Open Source Agentic AI Stack: What AAIF Projects Do and How to Contribute

Short summary

The Agentic AI Foundation (Linux Foundation) oversees four open-source projects that standardize production AI agent infrastructure: MCP (universal tool protocol), Goose (multi-provider Rust agent framework), AGENTS.md (AI-friendly contribution conventions), and AgentGateway (security and governance proxy). These projects integrate to enable agents to discover, authenticate, and communicate with tools and other agents at scale. Contributors at all skill levels can start participating—AGENTS.md offers the most accessible entry point.

  • •MCP standardizes how AI agents connect to tools across frameworks and providers via JSON-RPC 2.0 with OAuth and progress notifications
  • •Goose is an open-source Rust agent framework supporting 15+ LLM providers, 70+ MCP extensions, and multiple interfaces (desktop, CLI, API)
  • •AGENTS.md is a simple community convention that documents agent-specific build, test, and PR instructions in repositories

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