Agentic AI Foundation Announces Four New Projects: Agent Skills, Open Responses, OpenEnv, and OpenSandbox
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AAIF reaches 10 projects in its first year, with new contributions from Alibaba, Anthropic, Hugging Face, and OpenAI Summary SAN JOSE, Calif., Oct. 22, 2026 /PRNewswire/ -- AGNTCon + MCPCon North America - The Agentic AI Foundation (AAIF) today announced four new projects: Agent Skills, contributed by Anthropic; Open Responses, contributed by OpenAI; OpenEnv, contributed by Hugging Face; and OpenSandbox, contributed by Alibaba. The additions bring AAIF to 10 hosted projects in its first year, up from its three launch projects in December 2025. The new projects address four layers of the agentic stack: how agents gain new skills, how applications talk to models across providers, how agents are trained and evaluated, and where agents run safely. They join the Agent2Agent (A2A) protocol, Agent Router, agentgateway, AGENTS.md, goose, and the Model Context Protocol (MCP) as AAIF projects, all operating under AAIF's open, vendor-neutral governance. "A year ago, AAIF launched with three projects and a bet that agentic AI needed a neutral home to thrive. Today we host 10," said Manik Surtani, CTO and co-founder of the Agentic AI Foundation. "Agent Skills, Open Responses, OpenEnv, and OpenSandbox each cover a different part of that stack, from how agents gain capabilities to where they run, and four different companies chose to contribute them to neutral governance. That's the job...
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Today, we're donating Agent Skills to the AAIF to ensure that anyone building with skills can shape what's next.
