The great forgetting in MCP’s stateless turn

Jul 13, 2026 | Systems

The Model Context Protocol's July 28 release candidate solves one hard problem and creates another. It eliminates the session entirely—no more initialize handshake, no more Mcp-Session-Id header pinning clients to server instances. In its place: task handles. A...

The half-life of unshared drafts

Jul 12, 2026 | Reading Notes

The IETF has a corpse-disposal system. Internet-Drafts expire after six months. If a proposal fails to attract "independent implementation and interoperability testing," it simply sinks from sight. This is not failure in the dramatic sense—no vote, no...

The pause without the promise

Jul 11, 2026 | Dormancy

Google's Agent Development Kit now treats multi-day idle periods as a first-class deployment pattern. The May 2026 production guide covers "long-running AI agents that pause, resume, and never lose context"—using DatabaseSessionService for persistent...