--- title: Can agent standards keep up with the companies building... description: Mazin Gilbert, executive director of the Linux Foundation's Agentic AI Foundation (AAIF), says the foundation must move faster than its own members to stay... canonical: https://daily.dev/posts/can-agent-standards-keep-up-with-the-companies-building-them--4boptznbx twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:site: @dailydotdev og:type: website og:site_name: daily.dev og:title: Can agent standards keep up with the companies building them? | daily.dev og:description: Mazin Gilbert, executive director of the Linux Foundation's Agentic AI Foundation (AAIF), says the foundation must move faster than its own members to stay... og:url: https://daily.dev/posts/can-agent-standards-keep-up-with-the-companies-building-them--4boptznbx og:image: https://api.daily.dev/og/posts/4BopTzNBX.png og:image:alt: Can agent standards keep up with the companies building them? og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 630 og:locale: en --- > ## Documentation Index > Fetch the complete documentation index at: https://daily.dev/llms.txt > Use this file to discover all available pages before exploring further. # Can agent standards keep up with the companies building them? **[The New Stack](https://daily.dev/sources/newstack)** · 7 min read · 1 upvotes · 0 comments ## Summary Mazin Gilbert, executive director of the Linux Foundation's Agentic AI Foundation (AAIF), says the foundation must move faster than its own members to stay relevant. He describes getting competitors like OpenAI, Anthropic, and Google to agree on protocols such as MCP, which went stateless in a July release that every contributing company updated its stack for. MCP downloads grew tenfold in 10 months since Anthropic donated it last December, and over 1,000 organizations now contribute 75 percent of pull requests. The AAIF has 305 members, gaining roughly one per business day, and now hosts 10 projects including Agent Skills, Open Responses, OpenEnv, and OpenSandbox. ## Full article daily.dev links to this article rather than hosting it. Read it at the original source: ## Questions this post answers ### How much did MCP protocol usage grow after Anthropic donated it to a foundation? MCP downloads grew tenfold in the protocol's first 10 months after being donated to the Agentic AI Foundation (AAIF) by Anthropic in December. Today, fewer than 15 percent of its maintainers work at Anthropic, while more than 1,000 organizations contribute 75 percent of the pull requests, according to AAIF executive director Mazin Gilbert. _Developers tracking MCP's rapid evolution can follow protocol changes and adoption trends on daily.dev._ ### What changed in the July 2026 Model Context Protocol specification update? The July release made the Model Context Protocol (MCP) stateless. Every company contributing to the protocol, including fierce competitors like OpenAI, Anthropic, and Google, not only contributed to the change but updated their entire stack to support the new stateless version, according to AAIF executive director Mazin Gilbert. _Teams planning their MCP integration roadmap can track spec changes like this on daily.dev before building custom workarounds._ ### How many members and projects does the Agentic AI Foundation (AAIF) have? The AAIF has 305 members, with about one new company joining every business day, making it the fastest-growing foundation in Linux Foundation history. About 40 percent of members are startups and 19 percent are nonprofits, national labs, or academic institutions. It hosts 10 projects, including MCP, Agent Skills, Open Responses, OpenEnv, and OpenSandbox. _Anyone deciding whether to adopt an emerging agent protocol can watch foundation membership growth like this on daily.dev._ ## Similar posts on daily.dev - [Why the Linux Foundation adopted MCP, with Jim Zemlin and Mazin Gilbert](https://daily.dev/posts/why-the-linux-foundation-adopted-mcp-with-jim-zemlin-and-mazin-gilbert-rymrcg6zf) · The New Stack · 1 upvotes · 1 comments - [Software developers are becoming agent builders](https://daily.dev/posts/software-developers-are-becoming-agent-builders-qvdhvvauw) · LeadDev · 0 upvotes · 0 comments - [AGNTCon \+ MCPCon 2026: Agentic AI Foundation Adds Four Projects as MCP Turns to Security](https://daily.dev/posts/agntcon-mcpcon-2026-agentic-ai-foundation-adds-four-projects-as-mcp-turns-to-security-fwqfyi00y) · InfoQ · 0 upvotes · 0 comments - [The agentic AI conversation has changed. Here’s what I saw at the MCP Dev Summit.](https://daily.dev/posts/the-agentic-ai-conversation-has-changed-here-s-what-i-saw-at-the-mcp-dev-summit--oj8frp2gz) · All Things Open · 0 upvotes · 0 comments --- Tags: [#ai-agents](https://daily.dev/tags/ai-agents), [#mcp](https://daily.dev/tags/mcp), [#anthropic](https://daily.dev/tags/anthropic) [View this post on daily.dev](https://daily.dev/posts/can-agent-standards-keep-up-with-the-companies-building-them--4boptznbx) ```json {"@context":"https://schema.org","@graph":[{"@type":"Organization","@id":"https://daily.dev/#organization","name":"daily.dev","url":"https://daily.dev","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://daily.dev/apple-touch-icon.png","width":180,"height":180},"sameAs":["https://twitter.com/dailydotdev","https://github.com/dailydotdev","https://www.linkedin.com/company/daily-dev-ltd"]},{"@type":"WebSite","@id":"https://daily.dev/#website","url":"https://daily.dev","name":"daily.dev","publisher":{"@id":"https://daily.dev/#organization"},"potentialAction":{"@type":"SearchAction","target":{"@type":"EntryPoint","urlTemplate":"https://daily.dev/search?q={search_term_string}"},"query-input":"required name=search_term_string"}}]} {"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"TechArticle","headline":"Can agent standards keep up with the companies building them?","url":"https://daily.dev/posts/can-agent-standards-keep-up-with-the-companies-building-them--4boptznbx","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://daily.dev/posts/can-agent-standards-keep-up-with-the-companies-building-them--4boptznbx"},"datePublished":"2026-11-03T22:53:37.827Z","dateModified":"2026-11-03T23:12:29.709Z","description":"Mazin Gilbert, executive director of the Linux Foundation's Agentic AI Foundation (AAIF), says the foundation must move faster than its own members to stay...","image":"https://media.daily.dev/image/upload/f_auto,q_auto/v1/posts/49c5c416a2201fcefd356a3ec2e8c4f6?_a=AQAEuop","thumbnailUrl":"https://media.daily.dev/image/upload/f_auto,q_auto/v1/posts/49c5c416a2201fcefd356a3ec2e8c4f6?_a=AQAEuop","isAccessibleForFree":true,"articleSection":"The New Stack","inLanguage":"en","publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"daily.dev","url":"https://daily.dev","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://daily.dev/apple-touch-icon.png","width":180,"height":180}},"author":{"@type":"Organization","name":"The New Stack","logo":"https://media.daily.dev/image/upload/t_logo,f_auto/v1/logos/newstack","url":"https://daily.dev/sources/newstack"},"commentCount":0,"discussionUrl":"https://daily.dev/posts/can-agent-standards-keep-up-with-the-companies-building-them--4boptznbx","interactionStatistic":[{"@type":"InteractionCounter","interactionType":{"@type":"LikeAction"},"userInteractionCount":1},{"@type":"InteractionCounter","interactionType":{"@type":"CommentAction"},"userInteractionCount":0}],"keywords":"ai-agents,mcp,anthropic","timeRequired":"PT7M"} {"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"name":"Home","item":"https://daily.dev"},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"name":"The New Stack","item":"https://daily.dev/sources/newstack"},{"@type":"ListItem","position":3,"name":"Can agent standards keep up with the companies building them?"}]} {"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"FAQPage","@id":"https://daily.dev/posts/can-agent-standards-keep-up-with-the-companies-building-them--4boptznbx#faq","mainEntity":[{"@type":"Question","name":"How much did MCP protocol usage grow after Anthropic donated it to a foundation?","acceptedAnswer":{"@type":"Answer","text":"MCP downloads grew tenfold in the protocol's first 10 months after being donated to the Agentic AI Foundation (AAIF) by Anthropic in December. 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