MCP Apps extends the frontier — KYA is the identity spine beneath it
· by Risto Anton Päärni
From the AAIF launch post
“MCP Apps launched as the first official Model Context Protocol extension that brings interactive UI capabilities to MCP clients — developed through a partnership between OpenAI and Anthropic, building on OpenAI’s Apps SDK and the community-driven MCP-UI project. ChatGPT, Claude, goose and Visual Studio Code all ship support.”
Source: Agentic AI Foundation (AAIF), Linux Foundation —
aaif.io/blog/mcp-apps-extending-the-frontier/
Every time OpenAI and Anthropic ship another open standard under the Linux Foundation’s neutral AAIF governance, our KYA thesis gets sharper, not weaker. Interactive UIs that can take actions from inside ChatGPT, Claude Desktop, goose and VS Code do not need less identity than invisible tool calls — they need more. Here is what we are doing about it, and what we have already shipped.
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