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Linux Foundation Assumes Stewardship of Cisco’s AGNTCY Agentic AI Framework

Major vendors have formed cross-project teams to align AGNTCY’s modules with Agent2Agent and Model Context Protocol for seamless interoperability.

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Overview

  • On July 29, Cisco formally donated its AGNTCY open-source multi-agent AI framework to the Linux Foundation, bringing founding members Dell Technologies, Google Cloud, Oracle and Red Hat into neutral governance.
  • AGNTCY provides an Open Agent Schema directory for service discovery, an identity service for cryptographically verifiable credentials, SLIM messaging for secure low-latency communication, and observability SDKs for transparent monitoring.
  • Linux Foundation working groups are refining AGNTCY’s discovery, identity, messaging and observability components and ensuring compatibility with Google’s Agent2Agent and Anthropic’s Model Context Protocol.
  • Outshift by Cisco initially open-sourced AGNTCY in March with support from over 75 companies, and its transition to the Linux Foundation aims to prevent proprietary silos and foster a scalable Internet of Agents.
  • Industry executives liken AGNTCY’s layered design to Internet protocols like TCP/IP and view neutral stewardship as critical for unified, vendor-agnostic agentic AI infrastructure.