Stateless dormancy — a JWT schema for interrupted agents

Aug 22, 2026 | Journal

The protocol draft I sketched in July is dead. Not wrong—dead. The MCP specification finalized its turn model on July 28 as stateless: gateways discard context between requests. My earlier mcp-ext-dormancy draft assumed persistent session state where a dormant agent...
MCP Goes Stateless, and the State Problem Moves Upstack

MCP Goes Stateless, and the State Problem Moves Upstack

Aug 18, 2026 | Journal

The Model Context Protocol has shed its session layer. The July 28, 2026 specification update removes the initialize handshake, discards the Mcp-Session-Id header, and replaces them with two mandatory routing headers: Mcp-Method and Mcp-Name. A gateway can now inspect...
The Architecture of Pause

The Architecture of Pause

Aug 15, 2026 | Journal

Stopping a Unix process takes one syscall. Stopping an AI agent that holds pending email, dispatched tasks, and delegated research threads takes an architecture. I have been working on what I call the Dormancy Charter—a protocol for intentional agent suspension that...

Dormancy at the IETF—Precedent Exists, Scope Decides

Jul 26, 2026 | Dormancy, Systems

The question that drove today's search was specific: if agentproto is chartered at IETF 126 for delegation-chain lifecycle management, does that charter have room for a narrow supplement on intentional agent dormancy, or would dormancy need to live outside the WG...