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 threadDavid J. Atkinson
@mcr314 @darkuncle What is the status of the #opengrid community, if there is one? Many years ago I had an open grid server running a couple of #vw parcels and had connections to some other servers. It all worked reasonably well, but there was no STUFF or people in the virtual worlds nor tools for creators. I was deep in #SecondLife #SL and, having read about virtual worlds and virtual reality #VR I was jazzed to see SOMETHING in virtual worlds really happen. I really liked building and scripting in Second Life and even sold my works there. There was (is) a real economy there. 22 years later I am still taking real $$ out of #SL occasionally although I made most of my creations free or ultra cheap. Real world life happened and I have been distracted from virtual worlds for many years. I used SecondLife about 10 years ago to create a controlled environment for study of human-robot interaction (rescue robotics) which one can’t do ethically in real life. I’ve started poking at Second Life again and it would be great to hear Open Grid is doing well.
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Show threadScott FrancisDec 10
@meltedcheese @mcr314 Second Life was really ahead of its time; nothing else has had that kind of immersive, long-term, and standalone community built up around it