# AAIF adds "sandbox" phase to catch early-stage projects > Source: > Published: 2026-09-18 10:22:10+00:00 The Agentic AI Foundation (AAIF) has added a sandbox phase to its project lifecycle to welcome open source projects that do not yet have significant adoption, but it's added a 12-month timer to the initiative. The foundation, launched in late 2025 under the Linux Foundation umbrella, outlined the [new project roadmap](https://aaif.io/blog/aaif-sandbox-phase?ref=thestack.technology) at its AGNTCon Europe event in Amsterdam, explaining sandbox projects would not receive funding or marketing from the AAIF. CTO Manik Surtani said: “Agentic AI is not even two years old, we’re still debating what an agentic stack even looks like, what that shape even is. So, of course, the most interesting projects are early, they’re not fully baked.” The AAIF has so far accepted projects at a “growth” or “impact” level, both requiring the project to be used in production at a wide scale and the latter requiring “wide-scale impact and substantial production deployments.” Surtani said the structure worked for the foundation’s flagship projects, including protocols [MCP](https://github.com/modelcontextprotocol?ref=thestack.technology), [A2A](https://github.com/a2aproject?ref=thestack.technology), and the open source [Goose AI agent](https://github.com/aaif-goose/goose?ref=thestack.technology), but it was a barrier to adding newer projects in the fast-moving agentic sector.