Pieter de Bruin

After an incredible first year, Model Context Protocol (MCP) is joining Agentic AI Foundation (AAIF) under Linux Foundation. This is a great development for a protocol that has made lots of progress for agentic integrations and donating it to a foundation is the best way to guarantee governance.

Timeline of MCP's first year from November 2024 to December 2025, showing growth from 2000 to 10000 active servers, four spec releases, and culminating in MCP joining the Linux Foundation

Blog post

Only slightly related, since it covers Learn MCP Server, is a new blog post from my v-team that was also published this week.

Thanks for reading! :-)

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