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model context protocol blog skip to content model context protocol blog documentation posts archives search model context protocol blog get the latest updates from protocol maintainers and contributors about new developments upcoming features and real world mcp implementations expanding the mcp maintainer team 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 april 8 2026 3 min david soria parra lead maintainer tool annotations as risk vocabulary what hints can and can t do mcp tool annotations were introduced nearly a year ago as a way for servers to describe the behavior of their tools whether they re read only destructive idempotent or reach outside their local environment since then the community has filed five independent specification enhancement proposals seps proposing new annotations driven in part by a sharper collective understanding of where risk actually lives in agentic workflows this post recaps where tool annotations are today what they can and can t realistically do and offers a framework for evaluating new proposals march 16 2026 11 min ola hungerford maintainer sam morrow github luca chang aws understanding mcp extensions you ve built an mcp server that works quite well but now you re wondering how do i add richer ui elements custom auth flows what about domain specific conventions like those for finance or healthcare this is where extensions come in they let developers layer new capabilities on top of the baseline mcp implementation without touching the core protocol this allows us to keep things stable while also opening up room to experiment learn and build with the community s needs in mind march 11 2026 5 min mcp community maintainers all posts documentation posts archives search tags github linkedin rss copyright model context protocol a series of lf projects llc for web site terms of use trademark policy and other project policies please see https lfprojects org