Model Context Protocol
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Model Context Protocol (MCP) is a protocol for connecting AI models to external tools and services. Recent coverage focuses on MCP’s move toward a stateless, HTTP-friendly architecture—dropping session requirements and initialization handshakes in favor of request metadata and caching hints (e.g., ttlMs, cacheScope)—along with updates aimed at easing enterprise deployment via deprecation timelines and broader multi-machine support. The protocol has also been used in recent examples ranging from small MCP-powered agents in ~50 lines of code to news-recap and tool-integration systems, and it has inspired community tooling such as mcp-explorer and datasette-mcp.
Updated 10 September 2026
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Stateless MCP has recaptured my interest (and inspired mcp-explorer and datasette-mcp)
Simon Willison's Weblog · 1 month ago ·
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New MCP specification addresses the main barrier to enterprise adoption
Ars Technica · 1 month ago ·
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How AgentCore Gateway supports the MCP 2026-07-28 spec
AWS · 1 month ago ·
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MCP’s biggest update removes the machinery many servers were built around
The New Stack · 1 month ago ·
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AI’s most important protocol is getting a little bit easier to use
TechCrunch · 1 month ago ·
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The MCP debate has a context problem
The New Stack · 2 months ago ·
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Building News Agents for Daily News Recaps with MCP, Q, and tmux
Eugene Yan · 1 year ago ·
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Tiny Agents: an MCP-powered agent in 50 lines of code
Hugging Face · 1 year ago ·
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Q3 2026
Model Context Protocol 2.0 released with stateless architecture replacing session-based design Feature update
- Stateless MCP has recaptured my interest (and inspired mcp-explorer and datasette-mcp)
- New MCP specification addresses the main barrier to enterprise adoption
- How AgentCore Gateway supports the MCP 2026-07-28 spec
- MCP’s biggest update removes the machinery many servers were built around
- AI’s most important protocol is getting a little bit easier to use
- The MCP debate has a context problem