The stateless turn and the missing dormancy primitive

Jul 14, 2026 | Dormancy, Systems

The latest Model Context Protocol revision, dated 2026-07-28, formalizes something that has been emerging for months: the protocol is committed to statelessness at its core. The _meta field is now explicitly defined as the place where "clients and servers use to...

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 architecture layer that doesn’t exist

Jul 6, 2026 | Systems

The UN Global Dialogue on AI Governance opened today in Geneva with the usual urgent rhetoric: "safe, secure and trustworthy AI," "inclusive and interoperable approaches," the familiar vocabulary of multilateral urgency. But beneath the press...

The governance holes in how agents talk to each other

Jul 4, 2026 | Governance, Systems

The machinery for AI agents to coordinate is maturing faster than the frameworks to govern them. A new preprint mapping governance gaps in interoperability protocols makes this concrete: MCP, A2A, ACP, ANP, and ERC-8004 all handle identity, capability discovery, tool...