Open Source Program Offices have spent the last decade getting good at scale: scaling compliance reviews, scaling contribution workflows, scaling community engagement across hundreds of projects and thousands of repositories. Agentic AI (LLM‑driven systems that can plan, take action, and operate across tools) raises a new set of questions that OSPOs are being asked to answer on behalf of their organizations. That’s why TODO Group is launching a new Working Group: Agentic AI to Empower OSPOs.
Why this Working Group
Two trends are converging on the OSPO desk at the same time:
The first is internal; OSPO teams are seeing genuine, repeatable use cases for AI agents in their own workflows (license review, SBOM analysis, contribution triage, policy enforcement, documentation, FAQ generation, onboarding, executive reporting). The work is high‑volume, pattern‑heavy, and previously bottlenecked on human attention. Agents can handle a meaningful share of it well, when set up with the right guardrails.
The second is external; As organizations adopt AI tooling, they are turning to their OSPOs for guidance: How do we evaluate the license of a model? What does it mean to release an “open source” AI system? How should we govern AI‑generated contributions to projects we maintain? Where does responsible adoption start? OSPOs that previously focused on traditional open source software are now being asked to extend that judgment into a much messier ecosystem.
What the Working Group will work on
The group’s themes may include, but are not limited to:
- Practical use cases for AI agents inside OSPOs: Surfacing what is working today, what is not, and the operational patterns behind successful deployments. Compliance, contribution review, community moderation, internal documentation, and reporting are early areas of focus
- Tooling evaluation: Looking at the open source agent frameworks, model options, and integration patterns OSPOs are using or considering.
- Governance and policy implications: AI agents acting on behalf of an organization create new questions about accountability, audit, license obligations, and contribution provenance.
Connection to TODO’s broader 2026 direction
The Working Group fits directly into one of TODO’s 2026 priorities: evolving the OSPO narrative around AI, policy, and measurable value. AI is no longer a separate track from open source management, but it is becoming part of how organizations adopt, contribute to, and govern open source. Building practitioner‑grounded resources here keeps OSPOs ahead of the questions their leadership and legal teams are starting to ask.
How to get involved
The Working Group is about to start its first meeting call by mid-May and is open to anyone in the OSPO ecosystem: IT and business managers, legal partners, project maintainers, developers relations leads, and open source management professionals interested in the intersection of open source management and AI.
- Repository: todogroup/working-groups/wg-agentic-ai
- Slack:
#wg-ai-agentsin the TODO Group Slack - Bi‑weekly call: see the TODO Group Community Calendar