Mazin Gilbert, executive director of the AAIF, opened with the project news and three new governance committees. Alibaba contributed OpenSandbox, a secure sandbox for running agents, and OpenAI contributed Open Responses, an open specification for interoperable LLM interfaces. Anthropic added Agent Skills, and Hugging Face added OpenEnv, a framework for reinforcement learning environments that train and evaluate agents.
Manik Surtani, the foundation's CTO, put the milestone this way in the announcement: A year ago, AAIF rolled out with three projects and a bet that agentic AI needed a neutral home to thrive. In "Who Keeps It Open?", Surtani argued that a license alone does not keep infrastructure open. Surtani contrasted Android, which stayed under one company, with Kubernetes, which Google moved into a neutral foundation. The open problems now sit in identity, attestation, audit, and payments.
