Nick Cooper / Brad

Technical Leads, AAIF · 1 appearance on the record.

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Nick Cooper is a Member of Technical Staff at OpenAI leading agent protocol initiatives. Bradley Axen is Head of AI Capabilities at Block and the creator of Goose, an open-source autonomous developer agent contributed to the Agentic AI Foundation.

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Disclosure

OpenAI is contributing AgentsMD to the new Agentic AI Foundation ecosystem

“In a similar way, the agentic foundation is, well, it's a foundation, but also it's like the starting point where I really look forward to other contributions, like starting with Goose, our own AgentsMD, where we're really open for like a lot of technical cont…”

Nick Cooper / Brad Dec 28, 2025 ▶ 1:07:13 One Year of MCP — with David Soria Parria and AAIF leads from OpenAI, Goose, Linux Foundation

Insight

Agent ecosystems need common standards but diverse, competing concrete agent implementations

“Like, agents.md is an example, which is open up any GitHub repository, it has this file, it works the same way. Like, if everyone sort of did their own thing there, That's very low value, potentially damaging in a way. But so there's commonality value, whereas…”

Nick Cooper / Brad Dec 28, 2025 ▶ 1:16:55 One Year of MCP — with David Soria Parria and AAIF leads from OpenAI, Goose, Linux Foundation

Disclosure

Block abandoned Goose's proprietary plugin ecosystem in favor of adopting MCP

“We had a version of Goose that was still, you can go check the GitHub history. It was there a little bit before MCP came out, and we were sitting there with like a plugin ecosystem who were like, this is awful. Like what, like, why would you, why would anyone?…”

Nick Cooper / Brad Dec 28, 2025 ▶ 1:13:12 One Year of MCP — with David Soria Parria and AAIF leads from OpenAI, Goose, Linux Foundation

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Episode	Date	Speaking time
One Year of MCP — with David Soria Parria and AAIF leads from OpenAI, Goose, Linux Foundat	Dec 28, 2025	10m

Nick Cooper / Brad

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