Scott FrancisDec 10

“Anthropic is donating its MCP (Model Context Protocol), a standard way to connect models and agents to tools and data; Block is contributing Goose, its open source agent framework; and OpenAI is bringing AGENTS.md to the table, its simple instruction file developers can add to a repository to tell AI coding tools how to behave. You can think of these tools as the basic plumbing of the agent era.”

Standards and plumbing help make it possible to move from large, monolithic, and expensive implementations to more efficient, horizontally-scaled, openly-interoperable implementations.

https://techcrunch.com/2025/12/09/openai-anthropic-and-block-join-new-linux-foundation-effort-to-standardize-the-ai-agent-era/

OpenAI, Anthropic, and Block join new Linux Foundation effort to standardize the AI agent era | TechCrunch

Anthropic, Block, and OpenAI are backing the Linux Foundation’s new Agentic AI Foundation, donating MCP, Goose, and AGENTS.md to standardize AI agents, boost interoperability, and curb proprietary fragmentation.

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Show threadScott FrancisDec 10

The first thing that came to mind when I was thinking about developing plumbing/scaffolding upon which to build new kinds of tech was the work Neal Stephenson and team have been doing over at Lamina1. https://www.wired.com/story/plaintext-neal-stephenson-named-the-metaverse-now-hes-building-it/

Standards development work is rarely sexy but always essential for the interoperability that drives broad adoption and the innovation that comes out of that (the Internet is replete with historical examples here).

Neal Stephenson Named the Metaverse. Now, He’s Building It

Plus: Depicting the nerd mindset; the best lettuce; and the future is flooding.

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Show threadMichael RichardsonDec 10
@darkuncle https://datatracker.ietf.org/wg/ogpx/about/ try this again instead.
Open Grid Protocol (ogpx)

Show threadScott Francis
@mcr314 this is super cool. much of the scaffolding here, at least conceptually, has been in the works since the early days of MUDs and MOOs back in the pre-Web days of the Internet
Dec 10 at 8:52pmWeb