Why open infrastructure beats a shinier gateway - agentgateway joins the Agentic AI Foundation
There is a moment every platform team hits when an AI agent stops being a chatbot and starts being a problem. Not a conversation any more – an actor, invoking tools, calling out to other services, spending money, and doing it differently every single time. That shift, from something that talks to something that acts, is the reason the Agentic AI Foundation (AAIF) now has a piece of infrastructure to go with its protocols.
The AAIF – part of the Linux Foundation, launched at the end of 2025 with Anthropic's Model Context Protocol (MCP), Block's goose coding agent, and the AGENTS.md standard – has taken in its first new project since it opened, making agentgateway the foundation's fourth hosted project. agentgateway is an open source proxy that sits in the middle of all that agent traffic and applies the controls a platform team already cares about: authentication, rate limiting, observability,...
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