Update

I’m happy to share two updates to the maintainer team: Clare Liguori is joining the Core Maintainer group, and Den Delimarsky is joining me as a Lead Maintainer. When we introduced the MCP governance model last summer, the goal was to make sure the protocol could keep growing without any one person becoming a bottleneck. That has held up well through two specification releases, the move to the Agentic AI Foundation (AAIF), and a steady increase in SEP volume, and these changes give the project the leadership capacity it needs for what comes next. ...

A lot has happened since we first released MCP. We wrapped up 2025 with a major spec update and the momentum hasn’t slowed down. None of it would have happened without the community: every PR, every issue filed, every server and client built. That energy is what keeps MCP moving forward. To keep that momentum going, the Core Maintainer team is evolving as well. Departing Core Maintainers First, some news. Inna Harper and Basil Hosmer will be stepping away from the Core Maintainer team to focus on other projects. ...