Open AI Agent Standards
A list of emerging open standards for AI agents. Agentic AI Foundation (AAIF) Standards The Agentic AI Foundation is a Linux Foundation project with founding contributions from Anthropic, Block, and OpenAI. Model Context Protocol (MCP) – Anthropic Open standard API for connecting AI agents to data sources and tools. Acts as a “USB-C port for AI” to standardize context delivery. AGENTS.md – OpenAI Markdown-based convention for providing project-specific instructions to coding agents. Used by 60k+ open-source projects. ...