The Linux Foundation is accelerating its push into agentic AI, unveiling a third major project in as many months aimed at creating secure, interoperable infrastructure for autonomous agents.
Following the adoption of two recent agentic AI projects in June and July, LF added the Agent Gateway Project on August 25 at the Open Source Summit EU. Created by the cloud-native application networking company Solo.io, it optimizes connectivity, security, and observability in agent-based AI environments.
Numerous gateways exist, but most were designed before the rise of AI agents and struggle to support modern protocols without significant architectural changes, according to LF. To keep pace with the evolving artificial intelligence (AI) industry, organizations need a gateway specifically designed for today’s dynamic ecosystem.
LF began supporting mass innovation through open-source solutions at June’s Open Source Summit North America, where it announced the launch of the Agent2Agent (A2A) project. The A2A initiative is based on an open protocol Google launched in April for secure agent-to-agent communication and collaboration.
The growing support within LF for agentic AI intensified in late July when LF welcomed the Agntcy project. This open-source infrastructure enables discovery, identity, messaging, and observability among AI agents from different vendors and frameworks. It allows dynamic multi-agent environments by making A2A agents and Model Context Protocol (MCP) servers discoverable through Agntcy directories.
