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AAIF is a neutral, open foundation ensuring AI capabilities evolve transparently and collaboratively, advancing adoption of leading open source AI projects.

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Agentic AI Foundation @aaif.io · 2h
Enterprise AI is moving from cloud-first to agent-first. New LF Research, developed with Futurewei, Guru Technologies, LF AI & Data, the Tokenomics Foundation, and the Agentic AI Foundation, looks at how enterprises are actually navigating agent adoption in 2026: bit.ly/3VmOJiD
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Agentic AI Foundation @aaif.io · 3h
Your coding agent can access the repo. Can it tell the right file from the wrong one? AGENTS.md gives it the missing context: where to edit, what to preserve, and how to validate the work. Read the blog by Médéric Hurier: bit.ly/4zsfvoL
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Agentic AI Foundation @aaif.io · 6h
Your agent can do a lot for you. Meeting other builders at AGNTCon + MCPCon NA? You should probably handle that one yourself. 😉 Come hang with us in San Jose, October 22-23! bit.ly/4Azd3hz
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Agentic AI Foundation @aaif.io · 7h
POV: your entire “people I should probably be following on GitHub” list is in one room. Angie said save the date. We’d listen. AGNTCon + MCPCon NA · Oct. 22–23 · San Jose Come for the agents. Stay for the people building what’s next. Register now: bit.ly/4vkntyD
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Agentic AI Foundation @aaif.io · 21h
Nearly 100 AAIF chapters, with 40 events across 15 countries in Sept! A warm welcome to the chapters that made their debut this month in Colombo, Luxembourg, Singapore, Shenzhen, Bengaluru and Dallas. Thank you to the local organizers bringing these communities together. bit.ly/3TXO1YL
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Agentic AI Foundation @aaif.io · 22h
After AGNTCon + MCPCon EU, Obot (member company) shares three themes: AI control planes are taking shape, governance is becoming part of the development workflow, and the old API-and-app model is being stretched by agents. Read on: bit.ly/3TzrNMD AGNTCon + MCPCon NA: bit.ly/4vkntyD
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Agentic AI Foundation @aaif.io · 23h
WebMCP, MCP Apps, and A2UI are building the second layer of the web — made for agents, with humans still in the loop. Alex Salkever breaks it down: bit.ly/4zqAVTd Want to go deeper? Catch the conversation at AGNTCon + MCPCon North America, Oct. 22–23 in San Jose: bit.ly/4lT6ZJM
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Agentic AI Foundation @aaif.io · 23h
An OCI image records what an app contains and how it launches. It has no field for what the app may access once it runs. Docker calls this the agentic container gap. V3 of the Docker Sandbox Kit Spec, Apache 2.0, moves agent permissions inside the OCI image: bit.ly/4xVMmkv
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OpenSSF @openssf.org · 29/09/2026
Angie Jones, VP at the Agentic AI Foundation, joins What's in the SOSS talking about what it actually takes to run AI agents in production. 🎧 openssf.org/podcast/2026...
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Agentic AI Foundation @aaif.io · 29/09/2026
Angie Jones, VP of the Agentic AI Foundation, and Jono Bacon are joining AGNTCon + MCPCon North America for two days of agents, MCP, open source, interoperability, and everything moving this ecosystem forward. October 22–23. Come build what’s next. bit.ly/4vkntyD
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Agentic AI Foundation @aaif.io · 29/09/2026
Every high-value agentic use case in banking, insurance, and payments runs on data that lives on a mainframe. Invert the pattern, move the reasoning not the records, and make the harness the audit boundary. bit.ly/4iOTefH
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Agentic AI Foundation @aaif.io · 29/09/2026
Beyond Coding sat down with Dario Hamidi from Amp at AGNTCon + MCPCon Amsterdam to talk about what agentic engineering actually looks like in practice. bit.ly/4zneXjZ Come catch the next one at AGNTCon + MCPCon North America. Register: bit.ly/4vkntyD Code BEYONDCODING for 15% off.
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Agentic AI Foundation @aaif.io · 28/09/2026
AWS has ~16,000 APIs, so its MCP server runs in code mode. James Ward (AWS) on why agent-written Python is hard to review, and the restricted, schema-validated DSL he's testing instead.
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Agentic AI Foundation @aaif.io · 28/09/2026
AAIF Ambassador Dakota Fabro built a possibility matrix to change the way humans make judgment calls with agents: instead of asking you to generate every possible answer, the agent lays out the options. Read on: bit.ly/4d3j4ZK
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dakotaOS — Dakota Fabro
Android Engineer · Organizational Intelligence Engineer · Research Scientist. Building products that make humans more capable — and measurement instruments that prove it.
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Agentic AI Foundation @aaif.io · 25/09/2026
From Tokyo to Amsterdam—and next, San Jose. AAIF Ambassador Lin Sun shares what she learned across two weeks of AGNTCon + MCPCon. Read her take: lnkd.in/e6TAG5RZ Then keep the conversation going at AGNTCon + MCPCon NA, October 22–23 in San Jose: lnkd.in/gSkG3yzZ
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Agentic AI Foundation @aaif.io · 25/09/2026
MCP's spec says protect requestState integrity. It doesn't say where keys live, how replicas share them, or what enforces single-use. A follow-up on the three operational gaps the SDK leaves open, and how to close them with OpenBao. bit.ly/3VcS57V
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Agentic AI Foundation @aaif.io · 25/09/2026
From Tokyo to Amsterdam—and next, San Jose. AAIF Ambassador Lin Sun shares what she learned across two weeks of AGNTCon + MCPCon. Read her take: bit.ly/4z0nc5f Then keep the conversation going at AGNTCon + MCPCon NA where Lin will be joining us again: bit.ly/4vkntyD
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Agentic AI Foundation @aaif.io · 24/09/2026
An enterprise runs the agent on its own infrastructure. The model provider needs its weights usable only by an approved serving application. A look at Weight Custody Manifest, an open pre-1.0 spec that keeps release conditions beside the model: bit.ly/3VdsXxK
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Agentic AI Foundation @aaif.io · 24/09/2026
How MoonPay brought MCP sprawl under control. 30M+ customers, 900+ partners, and employees connecting AI assistants directly to internal systems through MCP. With Speakeasy, they now have 200+ MCP servers under governance and 60K+ agent sessions covered. bit.ly/4hJXNqo
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Agentic AI Foundation @aaif.io · 24/09/2026
A server that lists its skills and serves them as resources, so tools ship with instructions for using them. Ola Hungerford of Nordstrom on Skills over MCP, dependency gaps, and the context bloat that returns at hundreds of skills.
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Agentic AI Foundation @aaif.io · 23/09/2026
Paste a URL, and your agent picks up new capabilities. That "paste and go" experience is the core design intent of MCP: clients and servers that have never met can still connect. Enterprise closed-world setups get their own extensions. Read the full post: bit.ly/4yXf5X6
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Agentic AI Foundation @aaif.io · 23/09/2026
Missed AGNTCon + MCPCon EU live? We’ve got you. Two days of agentic AI, MCP, open source, and what builders are actually working on right now — featuring voices from Anthropic, OpenAI, AWS, Google DeepMind, Hugging Face, and more. - Day 1: bit.ly/4yfpWeY - Day 2: bit.ly/4iDyNlL
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Agentic AI Foundation @aaif.io · 23/09/2026
Angie Jones has officially entered her protocol girly era. 💅🤖 Her take on WebMCP: what if tool calling lived directly in the web page itself? Hear more from Angie and other builders pushing Agentic AI forward at AGNTCon + MCPCon NA: bit.ly/4vkntyD 📍 San Jose 📅 Oct. 22–23
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Agentic AI Foundation @aaif.io · 22/09/2026
x402 v2 and MCP 2026-07-28 both moved routing and payment data into HTTP headers, so gateways can meter paid tool calls without parsing JSON-RPC. The harder part is deciding whose budget is being spent, and where that decision lives. New technical writeup: bit.ly/4y5U5gD
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Agentic AI Foundation @aaif.io · 22/09/2026
An 8B model can beat a 70B model at tool routing, without fine-tuning. The difference? Don’t make the smaller model search a 443-tool catalog. Retrieve the relevant tools first, then bind a shortlist of about 10. Blog by AAIF Ambassador Vincent Caldeira: bit.ly/4hEK18s
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Improve SLM tool calling without post-training
An 8B model with a short tool list can beat a 70B model on the full catalog. Keep the cheaper model; filter what it sees — no fine-tune required.
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Agentic AI Foundation @aaif.io · 22/09/2026
AAIF is proud to join the Gates Foundation and 60+ organizations around a shared five-year goal: help an estimated 3.4 billion people whose languages are underrepresented in today’s AI models use AI tools in their own language and voice. - gates.ly/4xExA1u - gates.ly/4y4ZGnp
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Agentic AI Foundation @aaif.io · 21/09/2026
Japan understood the assignment. 🔥 North America, your turn. AGNTCon + MCPCon NA is hitting San Jose Oct. 22–23 for two days of agents, MCP, open protocols, production stories, and plenty of “wait, you built WHAT?” moments. Register now: bit.ly/4vkntyD
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Agentic AI Foundation @aaif.io · 18/09/2026
Recap from the AAIF meetup in Shanghai on Sept 5, ahead of AGNTCon + MCPCon China. Talks on cross-domain agent collaboration, safety checks for mobile GUI agents, RocketMQ lessons for agent messaging, and models + harnesses + tools developing together. bit.ly/3Tg6QWS
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Agentic AI Foundation @aaif.io · 18/09/2026
WebMCP moves tool calling into the web page, scoped to the page you are on and running in your logged-in session, instead of an agent screenshotting and searching the accessibility tree. Angie Jones on why that matters and what still blocks adoption.
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Agentic AI Foundation @aaif.io · 18/09/2026
Session 25 of Coding Agents Lunch & Learn explores verification and recovery with Tanmay Sah and Dolly Sah, covering The Verifier Tax and EvoUndo, and what it takes to build coding agents that can check their work and recover from failures. Today from 9–10 AM PDT: bit.ly/4r31eMc
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Agentic AI Foundation @aaif.io · 17/09/2026
AAIF Community Munich brings builders together to unpack what’s working, what’s breaking, and what still hasn’t been figured out. September 22 in Munich, with talks on AI Landing Zones and harness architecture in AWS. Register: luma.com/fkwvz7p3
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Agentic AI Foundation @aaif.io · 16/09/2026
Think you know who's taking the keynote stage? 👀 Co-founder of the AI Disclosures Project. Helped launch "open source" as a movement at a pivotal 1998 summit. 🔎 The mystery speaker is Tim O'Reilly. Catch him at AGNTCon + MCPCon North America, 10/22–23. Register now: bit.ly/4xTLw8i
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Agentic AI Foundation @aaif.io · 16/09/2026
AI models are becoming appliances: great at one thing, bad at everything else. Drew Breunig explores why, from his “Winchester Mystery House” idea to DSPy, GEPA, and the new Flex optimizer that rewrites code, not just prompts. bit.ly/4xJF6ZR
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The Winchester Mystery House Problem in AI Development
AI models are starting to act like appliances, locked into one narrow way of working, instead of the flexible infrastructure they used to be. Drew Breunig, an AI and data strategist working with the Overture Maps Foundation, joins us to explain why, and...
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Agentic AI Foundation @aaif.io · 15/09/2026
New on the AAIF blog: moving from a supervised shell to a purpose-built MCP server for agent tool access. Worked example is gpu-mcp-server on a Tesla T4 in Colab. Four named GPU tools, invalid input rejected, unregistered shell_exec refused, live CUDA workload validated. bit.ly/3UPqPMA
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Agentic AI Foundation @aaif.io · 15/09/2026
Member company American Express explores a practical question for RAG systems: what if context quality could be evaluated before the LLM call? Context Inspector measures coverage, freshness, source starvation, contradiction density, and more. Read on: bit.ly/4yrvS4h
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Context Inspector: Measuring Context Quality Before the LLM Call
A practical framework for identifying gaps, conflicts, and quality risks in retrieved context before they reach the model.
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Agentic AI Foundation @aaif.io · 15/09/2026
Live from AGNTCon + MCPCon Europe. September 17–18, the Agentic AI Foundation is bringing keynotes, technical talks, speaker interviews, Expo Hall coverage, demos, podcasts, and behind-the-scenes conversations from RAI Amsterdam to YouTube. Register free to watch live: luma.com/aaif-afd7
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Agentic AI Foundation @aaif.io · 15/09/2026
The Gates Foundation is joining AAIF as our first philanthropic member, with Matt Vasey taking a board seat. Collaboration kicks off at MCP Dev Summit Nairobi, where the Gates Foundation is a Diamond Sponsor and funding developers from across Africa to attend and contribute. bit.ly/4h6UgRN
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Agentic AI Foundation @aaif.io · 14/09/2026
Solo.io Open-Sourced Desktop Agent Controls. Solo.io’s Apache-2.0 Agentdesktop inventories agents, servers, and skills, applies policy, and connects devices through existing identity infrastructure. Telemetry is opt-in: agentdesktop.dev/docs
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Agentic AI Foundation @aaif.io · 14/09/2026
"As a company we are spending $2 per million token. What does it mean? It doesn't mean anything." Kuntal Patel and Abhinav Lad of Palo Alto Networks on why per-token cost is a weak KPI, and what they measure once agents start looping on their own.
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Agentic AI Foundation @aaif.io · 14/09/2026
On Sept 16, join the AAIF for a virtual event exploring voice agents, real-time conversational AI and what comes next for voice-powered AI. Featuring Luke Miller and Nicola Croon from SLNG on the launch of UNMUTE. ⏰ 8:30–10:00 AM PDT 💻 Virtual Register: bit.ly/3UrMudB
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Agentic AI Foundation @aaif.io · 14/09/2026
Introducing the MCPA, the first official certification for the Model Context Protocol, from the Agentic AI Foundation. 120-min proctored exam covering fundamentals, architecture, execution, security, and ecosystem. Aligned to spec 2026-07-28. Enroll now: bit.ly/4rgbi4E
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Agentic AI Foundation @aaif.io · 11/09/2026
Member company Block built an AI agent that fixes bugs. Moneybot reproduces, diagnoses, fixes, and verifies issues before opening patch and regression-test PRs. More than 40 fixes have been verified, with humans approving the merges: bit.ly/3UXsbon
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Agentic AI Foundation @aaif.io · 11/09/2026
As skills move from individual workflows to team-wide and company-wide systems, evaluations become critical. How do teams know which version works best? Continue the conversation with keynote speaker Dexter Horthy at AGNTCon + MCPCon EU in Amsterdam, September 17–18: bit.ly/4xvWpNq
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Agentic AI Foundation @aaif.io · 10/09/2026
Dex Horthy has fresh evidence that unattended coding agents still turn healthy codebases into radioactive spaghetti. HumanLayer's own software factory hit 30k+ lines before they archived it. There Is No Software Factory Without Better Verifiers at AGNTCon + MCPCon NA, 10/22. bit.ly/4h7gtiG
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Agentic AI Foundation @aaif.io · 10/09/2026
FastMCP 4 is making sessionless MCP practical for stateful applications. Tools can now handle multi-round interactions, preserve authenticated user state, run long tasks in the background, and scale across replicas without sticky sessions: bit.ly/4gHn8RF
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Agentic AI Foundation @aaif.io · 10/09/2026
Real-world agentic systems need more than a model that can generate an answer. They need context, access to the right tools, collaboration across agents, clear boundaries, and the ability to know when a human should take over. Blog by AAIF Ambassador Haben E. Akelom: bit.ly/4h9gTWI
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When AI Has to Do More Than Talk
It started with a customer complaint. "𝗜 𝘁𝗿𝗶𝗲𝗱 𝘁𝗼 𝘁𝗿𝗮𝗻𝘀𝗳𝗲𝗿 𝟭𝟬𝟬 𝗯𝗶𝗿𝗿, 𝗯𝘂𝘁 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝘁𝗿𝗮𝗻𝘀𝗮𝗰𝘁𝗶𝗼𝗻 𝗳𝗮𝗶𝗹𝗲𝗱.
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Agentic AI Foundation @aaif.io · 10/09/2026
What Agent Router does for your agent: One OpenAI-compatible endpoint. Provider translation, credential handling, failover across providers, MCP multiplexing with per-identity tool catalogs, and token-based rate limits. Every call logged and traced. Envoy underneath. aaif.io/blog/agent-r...
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Agent Router: Powerful Traffic Handling for Agent Builders - Agentic AI Foundation (AAIF)
Agent Router gives agent builders proven Envoy traffic handling without proxy expertise. One integration point for every model and MCP tool, with failover, credentials, and usage controls built in.
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Agentic AI Foundation @aaif.io · 10/09/2026
Agent Router (formerly Envoy AI Gateway) has joined AAIF. One OpenAI-compatible API for models. One router for every MCP tool. Envoy underneath. 11 public adopters, 9 maintainer seats across 5 companies, 132 contributors, and a 1.x compatibility commitment. bit.ly/4dt8GKJ
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Agentic AI Foundation @aaif.io · 09/09/2026
Enterprise MCP hits OAuth sprawl, shadow IT, and consent fatigue fast. New on the AAIF blog: Yoshiyuki Tabata and Yutaka Obuchi (Hitachi) on bringing ID-JAG support to Keycloak, an open source path to Enterprise-Managed Authorization for MCP. bit.ly/4iSfNjp
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Agentic AI Foundation @aaif.io · 09/09/2026
In the latest Agentic Conversations, Ambud Sharma, Principal Engineer at Pinterest, breaks down the Five Layer Cake framework across hardware, models, inference, and governance, then stress-tests it against building the next Cursor vs. the next YouTube: bit.ly/4ymT97g
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