Agent ecosystems need common standards but diverse, competing concrete agent implementations
Nick Cooper / Brad · One Year of MCP — with David Soria Parria and AAIF leads from OpenAI, Goose, Linux Foundation · Dec 28, 2025 · at 1:16:55
Nick Cooper of OpenAI discusses open source strategy and governance within the Agentic AI Foundation (AAIF) regarding standardizing protocols versus agent implementations.
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“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 for actual concrete implementations and projects, it's great to have reference implementations in many ways or experimental grounds like Goose, but I really favor a huge variety of them.”
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