The Linux Foundation, a nonprofit, has taken over stewardship of AGNTCY, an open source project designed to help AI agents from different companies work together more easily and securely.
Originally created by Cisco in March 2025 with support from LangChain and Galileo, AGNTCY is meant to serve as the backbone for what some are calling the ‘Internet of Agents.’
That means it helps various AI agents – software programs that can act independently – find each other, prove their identity, send messages and be monitored, no matter who made them or where they’re running.
The project is now backed by major tech players including Cisco, Dell Technologies, Google Cloud, Oracle and Red Hat. More than 65 companies have joined the effort.
AGNTCY supports other agent standards like Agent2Agent – recently contributed to the Linux Foundation – and Anthropic’s Model Context Protocol (MCP), and it uses SLIM, or Secure Low Latency Interactive Messaging.
The tools are already being used in production for automating software pipelines, managing IT systems, and operating telecom networks.
“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, in a statement.
“The Linux Foundation ensures this critical infrastructure remains neutral and accessible to everyone building multi-agent systems,” he added.
Production use cases include multi-agent IT deployments and telecom automation. More details and code are available at agntcy.org and github.com/agntcy.
