TODO Group Launches New Working Group on Agentic AI to Empower Open Source Program Offices

To explore AI agent workflows and the role of open source management

The TODO Group is launching a new Agentic AI to Empower OSPOs Working Group, a community-led effort for Open Source Program Office (OSPO) practitioners and open source management professionals to explore how AI agents are beginning to shape the day-to-day work of OSPOs.

As organizations adopt AI systems, OSPOs are increasingly being asked to support questions that sit at the intersection of open source strategy, software supply chain management, policy, compliance, developer experience, and responsible technology adoption. Recent Linux Foundation Research has also highlighted the growing role of OSPOs in AI readiness and governance, with OSPOs increasingly connected to AI risk management, security outcomes, and upstream engagement.

This new Working Group will provide a practitioner-driven space to document patterns and develop community resources that help OSPOs understand both sides of the OSPO - AI relationship:

• How AI agents can support OSPO work, including areas such as license and compliance review, project health monitoring, contribution workflows, reporting, and education
• How OSPOs can support organizations adopting AI, including questions around AI-generated contributions, open source AI models, and responsible adoption

The conversation is already happening across the TODO Group OSPO community: Through member touchpoint discussions or Open Source Summit and Linux Foundation Member Summit Ask Me Anything sessions.

“Right now, many OSPOs are experimenting in isolation with how agents show up in workflows: integrating them into development processes, managing and triaging agent-generated contributions at scale, and figuring out what patterns work. This is the kind of governance problem the software community has to solve together, in the open,” said Ashley Wolf, Director, Open Source at GitHub.

What the Working Group will focus on

The Working Group’s draft charter defines its purpose as a space to “explore, document, and share practical patterns for using agentic AI to scale Open Source and AI Management and Operations.” The group currently identifies two initial deliverables:

• A paper on the role of OSPOs in the age of agentic AI
• A paper or blog post with practical guidance on how to use AI tools in an OSPO

“The Cloudera OSPO is using Agentic AI to build and maintain a comprehensive Open Source Hub. It contains a live inventory of a complex estate of 50+ large OSS projects, contributors, events, talks, reports, and of course participation metrics. This hub is instrumental in our shift from organic participation to a more data-driven strategy,” said Diego Mastroianni, OSPO lead at Cloudera

The Working Group is currently co-chaired by: Diego Mastroianni, Ana Jiménez, Ashley Wolf and Stephen Augustus with Annania Melaku, as the TODO Group Steering Committee Liaison for the Working Group.

“We look forward to building tools, best practices, guides, and policy with the Agentic AI Working Group to help OSPOs accelerate adoption of AI agents in their workflows and across their organizations,” said Ashley Wolf, Director, Open Source at GitHub.

How to Get Involved

There are several ways to get involved:

• Review the draft Working Group charter and suggest edits or comments.
• Join the Working Group mailing list to receive updates about upcoming meetings.
• Join the open call on Tuesday, May 26 to meet the group, discuss the draft scope, and help shape next steps.
• Share examples of AI workflows, prompts, tools, or lessons learned that may be useful to OSPO practitioners.

The Working Group is open to open source program managers, legal and compliance partners, security professionals, developer relations leads, maintainers, researchers, and business or IT leaders working at the intersection of open source management and AI.