MCP’s biggest update removes the machinery many servers were built around
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Major update to MCP, core protocol for AI agent orchestration, highly actionable.
Summary
MCP's release candidate removes sessions and initialization handshake, enabling stateless server deployments akin to conventional HTTP services. Capabilities and client identity now travel per-request via `_meta`, and a new `server/discover` method makes capabilities independently queryable. State is handled through explicit handles (e.g., `basket_id`) visible to the model, eliminating the need for session affinity or shared stores in remote setups.