Agentic AI Foundation Adds Four Projects to Reach 10 in First Year

What happened

The Agentic AI Foundation announced four new hosted projects on October 22, 2026: Agent Skills, contributed by Anthropic; Open Responses, contributed by OpenAI; OpenEnv, contributed by Hugging Face; and OpenSandbox, contributed by Alibaba. The additions bring AAIF to 10 hosted projects in its first year, up from three launch projects in December 2025.

David Soria Parra, co-creator and lead maintainer of MCP at Anthropic, said Anthropic launched Agent Skills a year ago to give developers and enterprises an open standard for making agents more capable, and is donating it to AAIF so that anyone building with skills can shape what comes next. In a foundation post welcoming the project , AAIF said the specification is open source under Apache 2.0 and CC BY 4.0, that more than 70 agent platforms already support it, and that over 1 million skills have been published with nearly 280 million installations.

The announcement coincides with AGNTCon + MCPCon North America, taking place October 22 and 23, 2026, at the San Jose McEnery Convention Center. The new projects join the Agent2Agent (A2A) protocol, Agent Router, agentgateway, AGENTS.md, goose, and the Model Context Protocol (MCP) as AAIF projects under the foundation’s open, vendor-neutral governance.

According to the foundation, the four projects address different layers of the agentic stack: how agents gain new skills, how applications talk to models across providers, how agents are trained and evaluated, and where agents run safely. Surtani said four different companies chose to contribute the projects to neutral governance, giving the community one place to build shared standards, protocols, and infrastructure with no single company controlling the outcome.

Agent Skills Agent Skills is an open format for giving agents new capabilities and domain expertise. Skills package instructions, scripts, and resources in a reusable manner that agents can load on demand.