MCP donated to the Agentic AI Foundation
Anthropic donates MCP to the Linux Foundation's new Agentic AI Foundation, co-founded with Block and OpenAI, alongside goose and AGENTS.md.
MCP moves from Anthropic-run to neutral foundation governance. The founding projects are MCP, Block's goose and OpenAI's AGENTS.md. Anthropic reports 10,000+ active public MCP servers, 97M+ monthly SDK downloads and integrations in ChatGPT, Gemini, Microsoft Copilot, Cursor and VS Code.
- Date
- Tuesday, 9 December 2025
- Lab
- Anthropic
- Kind
- infra
- Access
- open standard
Figures
| Measure | Value | Measured by |
|---|---|---|
| Active public MCP servers | 10,000+ company-reported, Dec 2025 | company |
| Monthly SDK downloads (Python + TypeScript) | 97M+ company-reported | company |
Adoption figures are Anthropic's. The backers named are Google, Microsoft, AWS, Cloudflare and Bloomberg.
Sources
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