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Agents got a foundation and a risk list in the same week

On December 9 the Linux Foundation launched the Agentic AI Foundation and OWASP published its Top 10 for agentic applications. Together they turn “which systems can the agent reach?” into a question with an answer.

By IAIM Editorial · · 4 min read

In short: on December 9, 2025 the Linux Foundation launched the Agentic AI Foundation to hold the main open standards for connecting AI agents to tools, and OWASP published a top-10 list of the ways such agents fail. Read together, they turn “which systems can the agent reach, and what could go wrong there?” into a question with a written answer.1,2

The Agentic AI Foundation starts with three founding projects: Anthropic’s Model Context Protocol (MCP), Block’s goose and OpenAI’s AGENTS.md, with AWS, Anthropic, Google, Microsoft and OpenAI among its members.1 On the same day the OWASP GenAI Security Project published its Top 10 for Agentic Applications, a community risk list written specifically for AI systems that act.2

Sources

  1. Linux Foundation, "Linux Foundation Announces the Formation of the Agentic AI Foundation" (December 9, 2025) (opens in a new tab) linuxfoundation.org
  2. OWASP GenAI Security Project, "Top 10 for Agentic Applications for 2026" (December 9, 2025) (opens in a new tab) genai.owasp.org
  3. Anthropic, "Introducing the Model Context Protocol" (November 25, 2024) (opens in a new tab) anthropic.com
  4. TechCrunch, "OpenAI adopts rival Anthropic's standard for connecting AI models to data" (March 26, 2025) (opens in a new tab) techcrunch.com
  5. TechCrunch, "Google to embrace Anthropic's standard for connecting AI models to data" (April 9, 2025) (opens in a new tab) techcrunch.com
  6. Linux Foundation, "Linux Foundation Launches the Agent2Agent Protocol Project" (June 23, 2025) (opens in a new tab) linuxfoundation.org
  7. Gartner, "Gartner Predicts Over 40% of Agentic AI Projects Will Be Canceled by End of 2027" (June 25, 2025) (opens in a new tab) gartner.com

IAIM articles are educational and are not legal advice.

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