{"slug": "aaif-adds-four-agent-projects-taking-its-first-year-roster-to-10", "title": "AAIF adds four agent projects, taking its first-year roster to 10", "summary": "The Agentic AI Foundation (AAIF), co-founded by Manik Surtani, added four agent projects from Anthropic, OpenAI, Hugging Face and Alibaba on October 22nd, bringing the Linux Foundation-hosted group to 10 hosted projects in its first year, according to the foundation. The new projects are Agent Skills, Open Responses, OpenEnv and OpenSandbox, and at least one public onboarding record still showed governance steps underway. AAIF's growing roster puts standards and infrastructure from competing AI companies under one roof, though cross-company use depends on project governance and implementations rather than the contributor list alone.", "body_md": "# AAIF adds four agent projects, taking its first-year roster to 10\n\n**Co-founder Manik Surtani says the Linux Foundation-hosted group now oversees 10 projects, though at least one public onboarding record still showed governance steps underway.**\n\n        By [RuntimeWire Staff](https://runtimewire.com/author/runtimewire-staff)\n        · Published \n\nPrimary source: [PR Newswire](https://www.prnewswire.com/news-releases/agentic-ai-foundation-announces-four-new-projects-agent-skills-open-responses-openenv-and-opensandbox-302916689.html)\n\n## Why it matters\n\nAAIF's growing roster puts standards and infrastructure from competing AI companies under one roof. Whether that leads to cross-company use depends on project governance and implementations, not the contributor list alone.\n\nManik Surtani's [Agentic AI Foundation](https://aaif.io/?ref=runtimewire) added four projects from Anthropic, OpenAI, Hugging Face and Alibaba on October 22nd, extending its effort to put shared agent software under a common, Linux Foundation-hosted umbrella. The [announcement](https://www.prnewswire.com/news-releases/agentic-ai-foundation-announces-four-new-projects-agent-skills-open-responses-openenv-and-opensandbox-302916689.html?ref=runtimewire) brings AAIF to 10 hosted projects in its first year, according to the foundation.…\n\nWhen you purchase through links in our articles, [we may earn a small commission](https://runtimewire.com/affiliate-monetization-standards). This doesn’t affect our editorial independence.", "url": "https://wpnews.pro/news/aaif-adds-four-agent-projects-taking-its-first-year-roster-to-10", "canonical_source": "https://runtimewire.com/article/aaif-adds-four-agent-projects-surtani-open-governance", "published_at": "2026-10-22 16:13:26+00:00", "updated_at": "2026-10-22 19:41:26.395284+00:00", "lang": "en", "topics": ["ai-agents", "agent-protocols", "artificial-intelligence", "ai-tools"], "entities": ["Agentic AI Foundation", "Manik Surtani", "Linux Foundation", "Anthropic", "OpenAI", "Hugging Face", "Alibaba", "OpenEnv"], "also_reported_by": [], "alternates": {"html": "https://wpnews.pro/news/aaif-adds-four-agent-projects-taking-its-first-year-roster-to-10", "markdown": "https://wpnews.pro/news/aaif-adds-four-agent-projects-taking-its-first-year-roster-to-10.md", "text": "https://wpnews.pro/news/aaif-adds-four-agent-projects-taking-its-first-year-roster-to-10.txt", "jsonld": "https://wpnews.pro/news/aaif-adds-four-agent-projects-taking-its-first-year-roster-to-10.jsonld"}}