Two protocols matter if you build agents. MCP, Anthropic's Model Context Protocol, connects a model to tools, data and applications. A2A, Google's Agent2Agent, does the other half: one agent asking another to take on a task and hand the result back.
🏠 As of August they live under the same roof — the Agentic AI Foundation, the Linux Foundation body launched on 9 December 2025 around MCP, Block's goose agent framework and OpenAI's AGENTS.md. Platinum members include AWS, Anthropic, Block, Bloomberg, Cloudflare, Google, Microsoft and OpenAI, which is to say everyone.
Google had already handed A2A to the Linux Foundation back in June 2025, so this is a question of which house it sits in, not who owns it.
Why does anyone care? Because more than 10,000 MCP servers have been published, and an integration standard only pays off when no single vendor can quietly fork it into a moat. Neutral governance is boring on purpose.
🧰 The defining artefact of the agent era may turn out not to be a model at all, but a config file 📄
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