An independent research notebook on AI engineering, agents, models and the systems around them.https://julin.ai/atom/tags/mcp/index.xmlJu Lin2026-08-27T00:00:00+12:00https://julin.ai/2026/08/27/mcp-roadmap/2026-08-27T00:00:00+12:002026-08-27T00:00:00+12:00<p><a href="https://blog.modelcontextprotocol.io/posts/mcp-roadmap/">The MCP maintainers published an updated roadmap</a>.</p> <p>Since March, MCP went stateless (no more session handshakes), turned Tasks into an official extension for long-running work, and shipped enterprise auth pieces like issuer validation and Client ID Metadata Documents.</p> <p>Next up: one HTTP-native transport instead of separate stdio and HTTP paths, real agent identity (workload federation, token exchange), and progressive tool discovery for large catalogs. No firm dates yet.</p> <p>MCP is leaving its single-session, request/response origins behind for something built for long-running, multi-agent systems.</p>