Stateless dormancy — a JWT schema for interrupted agents

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

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

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

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...