Briefing

Building to Last: A New Governance Model for MCP

Introducing MCP's formal governance model: Specification Enhancement Proposals (SEPs), a maintainer structure, and a community-driven process for evolving t…

MCP Prompts: Building Workflow Automation

A practical guide to building workflow automation with MCP prompts and resource templates, demonstrated through a meal planning example.…

Evolving OAuth Client Registration in the Model Context Protocol

The Model Context Protocol (MCP) has adopted OAuth 2.1 as the foundation for its authorization framework. A key part of the authorization flow that MCP is parti…

Announcing the Official PHP SDK for MCP

The official PHP SDK for the Model Context Protocol is now generally available, built in collaboration with the PHP Foundation and Symfony.…

Introducing the MCP Registry

Launching the MCP Registry in preview: an open catalog and API for discovering publicly available MCP servers.…

Update on the Next MCP Protocol Release

An update on the timeline and priorities for the next Model Context Protocol specification version…

Server Instructions: Giving LLMs a user manual for your server

How server instructions give LLMs the context they need to use your MCP server's tools effectively — an underused protocol feature with outsized impact.…

Adopting the MCP Bundle format (.mcpb) for portable local servers

The MCP Bundle format (.mcpb) joins the MCP project, enabling one-click installation of local servers across any compatible client.…

MCP Apps: Extending servers with interactive user interfaces

Introducing the MCP Apps Extension proposal (SEP-1865) to standardize interactive user interfaces in MCP, developed with the MCP-UI creators and maintainers fro…

One Year of MCP: November 2025 Spec Release

MCP turns one — a look back at the year, plus the full details of the November 2025 specification release.…

SEPs Are Moving to Pull Requests

SEPs are moving from GitHub Issues to pull requests against the seps/ directory — why, and what changes for contributors.…

MCP joins the Agentic AI Foundation

Anthropic is donating MCP to the newly formed Agentic AI Foundation under the Linux Foundation, ensuring vendor-neutral governance for the protocol's future…

Exploring the Future of MCP Transports

The Transport Working Group's plan to evolve MCP beyond Streamable HTTP for enterprise-scale remote deployments.…

January MCP Core Maintainer Update

Core Maintainer team changes for 2026: departing members, new additions, and what's ahead for MCP governance.…

MCP Apps - Bringing UI Capabilities To MCP Clients

MCP Apps is now live as the first official MCP extension — tools can return interactive UI components that render directly in the conversation.…

The 2026 MCP Roadmap

The updated Model Context Protocol roadmap for 2026: transport scalability, agent communication, governance maturation, and enterprise readiness, plus guidance …

Understanding MCP Extensions

A practical guide to MCP extensions: how they layer new capabilities on top of the core protocol, and patterns the community is already using.…

Tool Annotations as Risk Vocabulary: What Hints Can and Can't Do

MCP tool annotations were introduced nearly a year ago as a way for servers to describe the behavior of their tools — whether they’re read-only, destructi…

Expanding the MCP Maintainer Team

Updates to the Model Context Protocol (MCP) governance team: a new Lead Maintainer and an addition to the Core Maintainer group as the open-source project conti…

Chat History Storage Patterns in Microsoft Agent Framework

When people talk about building AI agents, they usually focus on models, tools, and prompts. In practice, one of the most important architectural decisions is m…

A2A v1 Is Here: Cross-Platform Agent Communication in Microsoft Agent Framework for .NET

As organizations move from single-agent prototypes to multi-agent production systems, the ability for agents to communicate reliably across platforms and organi…

From Local to Production: Deploy Your Microsoft Agent Framework Agent with Foundry Hosted Agents

Once you have your Microsoft Agent Framework (MAF) agent or workflow happily running locally on your dev machine, it’s time to decide how to deploy your a…

A Tour of Handoff Orchestration Pattern

A Tour of the Handoff Orchestration Pattern Most multi-agent systems start out simple: a router agent receives a user request, picks the right specialist, and f…

Governance at the Speed of Agents: Microsoft Agent Framework and Agent Governance Toolkit, Better Together

Building powerful AI agents is only half the story, running them safely in production is the real challenge. As customers adopt Microsoft Agent Framework for ag…

python-1.5.0

Stop prompt injection from hijacking your agent, new security capabilities now released within Agent Framework

Prompt injection is the #1 risk on the OWASP LLM Top 10, and most agents in production today defend against it with one of two heuristics: a defensive system pr…

The 2026-07-28 MCP Specification Release Candidate

The release candidate for the next Model Context Protocol (MCP) specification is now available: a stateless protocol core, the Extensions framework, Tasks, MCP …

python-1.6.0

Agent Skills for Python: File, Code, and Class – Composed in One Provider

Python developers working with Agent Skills can now author skills as files on disk, as inline Python code, or as reusable classes – and mix them freely th…

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