Agentic AI Foundation adds Agent Skills, Open Responses, OpenEnv and OpenSandbox
The Agentic AI Foundation, the Linux Foundation-hosted home of MCP, took in four new open projects: Agent Skills from Anthropic, Open Responses from OpenAI, OpenEnv from Hugging Face and OpenSandbox from Alibaba, bringing it to 10 hosted projects.
What happened
- On October 22, 2026, at AGNTCon + MCPCon North America in San Jose, the Agentic AI Foundation (AAIF) announced four newly contributed projects.
- Agent Skills, contributed by Anthropic, is an open format for packaging instructions, scripts and resources that agents load on demand.
- Open Responses, contributed by OpenAI, is an open specification based on the OpenAI Responses API so one integration can run across model providers.
- OpenEnv, contributed by Hugging Face, is a framework and hub for interoperable reinforcement-learning environments, and OpenSandbox, contributed by Alibaba, is a sandbox platform with SDKs and Docker and Kubernetes runtimes for running agents safely.
- They join MCP, Agent2Agent (A2A), AGENTS.md, goose, agentgateway and Agent Router, taking AAIF from three launch projects in December 2025 to 10.
Why it matters: Skills and a shared model API moving under neutral governance makes it more likely that the skills, connectors and agent setups businesses build today will keep working across different AI vendors.
Sources
- AAIF announcement aaif.io
- Linux Foundation press release linuxfoundation.org
Checked October 23, 2026 against the sources above. Claims about performance or benchmarks are the company's own unless stated otherwise.