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AnthropicAnnouncement
Donating MCP to the Agentic AI Foundation
Summary
Anthropic is donating the Model Context Protocol (MCP) to the Agentic AI Foundation (AAIF), a directed fund under the Linux Foundation co-founded by Anthropic, Block, and OpenAI, with support from Google, Microsoft, AWS, Cloudflare, and Bloomberg. Introduced as an open standard for connecting AI applications to external systems, MCP now has more than 10,000 active public servers, adoption across major AI products, enterprise deployment support, and official SDKs with 97M+ monthly downloads across Python and TypeScript. The donation places MCP alongside Block’s goose and OpenAI’s AGENTS.md as AAIF founding projects, while its existing governance model remains unchanged. MCP also has a community-driven Registry, and the November 25th specification release added asynchronous operations, statelessness, server identity, and official extensions.
Context
MCP was introduced as a universal, open standard for connecting AI applications to external systems. Its adoption has expanded across public servers, AI platforms, enterprise infrastructure, and programming-language SDKs.
Approach / What changed
Anthropic is donating MCP to the Linux Foundation’s Agentic AI Foundation, where it joins goose and AGENTS.md as a founding project. MCP’s maintainers will continue using its existing governance model, prioritizing community input and transparent decision-making.
Takeaways
MCP has more than 10,000 active public servers and has been adopted by ChatGPT, Cursor, Gemini, Microsoft Copilot, Visual Studio Code, and other AI products.
Official MCP SDKs in Python and TypeScript receive more than 97M monthly downloads, while enterprise deployment support is available from AWS, Cloudflare, Google Cloud, and Microsoft Azure.
The November 25th specification release added asynchronous operations, statelessness, server identity, and official extensions; MCP also has an official community-driven Registry.
Source and freshness
- Source
- anthropic.com
- Published
- Added to Yomu
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