OpenAI, Anthropic, and Block establish the Agent AI Foundation (AAIF), contributing the open-source AGENTS.md standard

Foresight News reports that OpenAI has announced the joint founding of the Linux Foundation’s Agentic AI Foundation (AAIF) with Anthropic and Jack Dorsey’s payment service provider Block, with support from Google, Microsoft, AWS, Bloomberg, and Cloudflare. AAIF aims to provide neutral governance for open and interoperable infrastructure, helping agentic AI systems move from experimental stages to real-world production applications. As part of this initiative, OpenAI will contribute AGENTS.md (a simple, open format for providing project-specific instructions and background information to agents) to the foundation to ensure long-term community support and adoption. In addition to AGENTS.md, the co-founders of AAIF will each contribute a project to the foundation: Anthropic’s Model Context Protocol (MCP) and Block’s goose.