Linux Foundation Welcomes AGNTCY to Tackle AI Agent Fragmentation

SAN FRANCISCO, July 29, 2025 — The Linux Foundation, the nonprofit organization enabling mass innovation through open source, today welcomed the AGNTCY project, an open source infrastructure that enables discovery, identity, messaging, and observability among AI agents from different vendors and frameworks. Cisco, Dell Technologies, Google Cloud, Oracle, and Red Hat have joined as formative members of the AGNTCY project under Linux Foundation governance.

Initially open sourced by Cisco in March 2025, with collaboration from LangChain and Galileo, AGNTCY has grown to include more than 75 supporting companies and provides the foundational infrastructure for the “Internet of Agents,” a new collaboration layer that lets multi-agent systems work together regardless of who built them or where they run.

The proliferation of AI agents increases fragmentation and vendor silos, impeding the ability for agents to securely communicate, share context and collaborate across platforms. The AGNTCY project’s open, common infrastructure provides developers and organizations with secure agent identity, reliable messaging and end-to-end observability to enhance transparency, performance, efficiency and trust.

Additionally, the AGNTCY project is interoperable with leading AI agent technologies, including the Agent2Agent (A2A) project, which was recently contributed to the Linux Foundation, and Anthropic’s Model Context Protocol (MCP). The AGNTCY project enables dynamic multi-agent environments by making A2A agents and MCP servers discoverable through AGNTCY directories, increasing transparency through AGNTCY observable software development kits (SDKs), and supporting message transport over the Secure Low Latency Interactive Messaging (SLIM) protocol.

“The AGNTCY project lays groundwork for secure, interoperable collaboration among autonomous agents,” said Jim Zemlin, executive director of the Linux Foundation. “We are pleased to welcome the AGNTCY project to the Linux Foundation to ensure its infrastructure remains open, neutral, and community-driven.”

As the comprehensive infrastructure layer for agent collaboration, the AGNTCY project’s core features include:

• Agent Discovery: Leverages the Open Agent Schema Framework (OASF) to allow any agent to discover and understand the capabilities of others.
• Agent Identity: Provides cryptographically verifiable identity and access control to ensure agents can act securely across organizational boundaries.
• Agent Messaging: Supports multi-modal, human-in-the-loop and quantum-safe communications via SLIM.
• Agent Observability: Provides end-to-end observability tools to help evaluate and debug complex multi-agent workflows across vendors and frameworks.

“Building the foundational infrastructure for the Internet of Agents requires community ownership, not vendor control,” said Vijoy Pandey, general manager and senior vice president of Outshift by Cisco. “The Linux Foundation ensures this critical infrastructure remains neutral and accessible to everyone building multi-agent systems.”

AGNTCY is backed by real-world production use cases, from AI-driven CI/CD pipelines to multi-agent IT deployments and telecom network automation.

Source: The Linux Foundation