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The release candidate for the next Model Context Protocol (MCP) specification is now available: a stateless protocol core, the Extensions framework, Tasks, MCP Apps, authorization hardening, and a formal deprecation policy.
The stateless protocol core and Tasks features directly impact how Zac's Claude-powered orchestrator communicates with specialized agents (rails-expert, test-engineer, investigator), potentially enabling more reliable fire-and-forget task delegation without session management overhead. The Extensions framework and MCP Apps concept could allow the orchestrator to expose app_monitor, task_tracker, and code_quality as structured MCP services that agents can discover and invoke natively. Authorization hardening is directly relevant to securing inter-agent communication across the 20+ Rails apps, and the formal deprecation policy means proactive planning is needed for any existing MCP integrations already in the stack.