---
type: "Evidence Item"
title: "Donating the Model Context Protocol and establishing the Agentic AI Foundation"
description: "Today, we’re 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."
resource: "https://www.anthropic.com/news/donating-the-model-context-protocol-and-establishing-of-the-agentic-ai-foundation"
tags: ["appendix-iii", "vendor", "anthropic"]
timestamp: "2025-12-09"
category: "vendor"
publisher: "Anthropic"
cope_score: 64
confidence: 0.88
---

# Donating the Model Context Protocol and establishing the Agentic AI Foundation

# Claim

Today, we’re 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, Amazon Web Services (AWS), Cloudflare, and Bloomberg. One year ago, we introduced MCP as a universal, open standard for connecting AI.

# Relevance

Appendix III, section two: vendor threshold and platform capability evidence

# Oracle Verdict

This is a lower-to-mid strength vendor signal for the capability register. It does not prove displacement on its own, but it records another platform step that can later show up as workflow automation, procurement change, or organisational dependency.

# Metadata

* Publisher: Anthropic
* Category: vendor
* Sector: Customer operations
* Capability: Agent platform and API infrastructure
* Cope score: 64
* Confidence: 0.88

# Related Concepts

* [Live evidence index](index.md)
* [Thesis](../thesis.md)

# Citations

[1] [Donating the Model Context Protocol and establishing the Agentic AI Foundation](https://www.anthropic.com/news/donating-the-model-context-protocol-and-establishing-of-the-agentic-ai-foundation)