Joining the first cohort of Agentic AI Foundation ambassadors
The Agentic AI Foundation, a Linux Foundation initiative, put MCP under open governance and opened its first ambassador program. What that means for agent infrastructure and security.
- The Agentic AI Foundation is a Linux Foundation initiative for open-source AI-agent infrastructure. MCP, created by Anthropic, is now one of its founding projects.
- The program planned for 10 ambassadors, drew more than 1,000 applications, and welcomed 138 people across 41 countries. The demand says where agent infrastructure is heading.
- MCP is where agents reach tools and data, and where security starts: what an agent can access, what it's allowed to do, and what evidence is left behind.
I've been selected for the first cohort of Agentic AI Foundation ambassadors.
AAIF is a Linux Foundation initiative focused on open-source infrastructure for AI agents. One of its founding projects is the Model Context Protocol (MCP), created by Anthropic and now contributed to the foundation. That move matters more than it looks. It takes the piece that connects agents to the outside world and puts it under open, shared governance instead of a single vendor.
The numbers say a lot about where the ecosystem is heading. The program planned for 10 ambassadors. It received more than 1,000 applications. It ended up welcoming 138 people across 41 countries. A program that expected ten people and drew a thousand is a signal in itself. A lot of practitioners see agent infrastructure as something worth building in the open.
MCP is becoming one of the main ways agents reach tools, data and real workflows. It's also where many of the security questions start. What can an agent actually access. What is it allowed to do. And afterward, what happened, and what evidence someone can review.
That last part is the work I've been doing at Oktsec: security, controls and evidence for AI-agent work. So this isn't a side interest. It sits on top of the same problem, at the layer where the standards are being written.
What I want to bring to the program is practical. The things I keep running into building AI agents and working in cybersecurity, shared in the open, where others can use them.
You can see the ambassadors here: aaif.io/ambassadors.
Grateful to have been selected, and looking forward to the work.