Can Agent Standards Keep Up with the Companies Building Them?
The New Stack, Tuesday, November 3rd, 2026
AAIF executive director Mazin Gilbert says agent standards must move faster than the OpenAI, Anthropic and Google members building them.
Mazin Gilbert, who left Google to lead the Linux Foundation's Agentic AI Foundation, told The New Stack at AGNTCon + MCPCon North America that the AAIF must move faster than its members or become irrelevant.
He described getting competitors such as OpenAI, Anthropic and Google to agree on standards, noting they will build products with or without them.
Members range from protocol contributors to companies still moving agents out of the lab, and some are panicking because they lack an agent strategy.
Gilbert called the protocols the plumbing of agentic AI, warning that getting them wrong would make agents expensive and messy to deploy.