Can agent standards keep up with the companies building them?

Mazin Gilbert, executive director of the Linux Foundation's Agentic AI Foundation (AAIF), says the foundation must move faster than its own members to stay relevant. He describes getting competitors like OpenAI, Anthropic, and Google to agree on protocols such as MCP, which went stateless in a July release that every contributing company updated its stack for. MCP downloads grew tenfold in 10 months since Anthropic donated it last December, and over 1,000 organizations now contribute 75 percent of pull requests. The AAIF has 305 members, gaining roughly one per business day, and now hosts 10 projects including Agent Skills, Open Responses, OpenEnv, and OpenSandbox.

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