How to Submit your Project to the AAIF

* Agentic AI Foundation ---------------------------------------- AAIF IS WHERE THE OPEN SOURCE AGENTIC STACK IS BEING BUILT; JOIN US TLDR: THE AGENTIC AI FOUNDATION (AAIF) IS NOW ACCEPTING PROJECT PROPOSALS. IF YOU’RE BUILDING OPEN SOURCE TOOLING OR STANDARDS FOR AGENTIC SYSTEMS AND WANT IT TO BECOME PART OF THE SHARED INFRASTRUCTURE THIS ECOSYSTEM RUNS ON, SUBMIT YOUR PROJECT FOR CONSIDERATION TODAY. Founding projects like the Model Context Protocol (MCP), AGENTS.md, and goose led the launch of AAIF under the Linux Foundation four months ago, a community that has since grown to include 188 member organizations such as AWS, Anthropic, Google, Microsoft, and OpenAI. Getting your project accepted into AAIF means influence, credibility, and direct access to the contributors and member organizations already building the agentic stack this ecosystem runs on. WHAT WE’RE LOOKING FOR A successful AAIF project: * Is technically strong, widely useful, and healthy enough to grow beyond one company or one maintainer group. * Has good adoption, but also good quality of the implementation. Shows the strength of the contributor community, the pace of development, and the project’s readiness to operate in the open with clear governance and security practices. * Improves interoperability, developer workflows, observability, coordination, reliability, or governance for agentic systems. * Has a clear, realistic 6–12 month roadmap that outlines concrete milestones and priorities, ensuring contributors understand where the project is headed and how they can best add value. THE SHORT VERSION: AAIF WANTS PROJECTS THAT ARE USEFUL ENOUGH FOR THE WORLD TO CARE ABOUT, HEALTHY ENOUGH FOR A COMMUNITY TO BUILD AROUND, AND MATURE ENOUGH TO CARRY THE WEIGHT OF BROADER ADOPTION. WHY SUBMIT YOUR PROJECT A lot of open source projects are technically open but effectively controlled by one organization. That works for a product. It’s a liability for infrastructure. When developers build on shared standards, they need to trust that those standards aren’t going to shift to serve someone else’s roadmap. Neutral governance is what makes that trust possible. It’s also what makes it easier to attract contributors who would otherwise hesitate to invest in something a competitor owns. Projects in AAIF get that credibility. They also get direct access to the community of contributors and enterprise adopters already building in this space, through foundation events, ecosystem programs, and community channels. Further, AAIF projects get access to resources such as Enterprise GitHub, including GitHub Action credits, discounted larger runners and Copilot Enterprise for maintainers, Enterprise Cloudflare features, deep project insights from the Linux Foundation, and more. BOTTOM LINE: JOINING THE AGENTIC AI FOUNDATION (AAIF) PROVIDES PROJECTS WITH NEUTRAL GOVERNANCE AND TRANSPARENT DECISION-MAKING, WHICH BUILDS ECOSYSTEM TRUST AND ATTRACTS A BROADER CONTRIBUTOR BASE. BEYOND CREDIBILITY AS PART OF THE LINUX FOUNDATION, MEMBERS GAIN SIGNIFICANT VISIBILITY THROUGH DEDICATED EVENTS AND PROGRAMS THAT CONNECT THEM WITH ENTERPRISE ADOPTERS AND INTEGRATORS. THE PROCESS The process is straightforward: 1. You propose your project through the AAIF intake form, describing the project, the AAIF technologies it relates to, and the community around it. 2. The Technical Committee (TC) of the AAIF will review it and verify project status and health. 3. If accepted, the project goes through onboarding to align with Linux Foundation standards. 4. From there, projects are expected to maintain active development, follow open governance practices, and support a broader contributor community. 5. After that, the expectation is active development, open governance in practice, and genuine support for a growing contributor community. The foundation handles the infrastructure and visibility. The project team keeps doing the work. NOT READY YET? START HERE If a proposal isn’t the right move yet, start by contributing to an existing project. Use MCP, AGENTS.md, or goose in a real workflow, find the friction, and fix something. Join a working group, that’s where priorities actually get set, and it’s the fastest way to understand what the ecosystem still needs. When you’re ready to take the next step, submit your project proposal through the AAIF intake form.