MCP Live! 2026
who it's for
mcp server developers, mcp client developers, protocol engineers, sdk authors, platform engineers, security engineers, tooling and integrations engineers
topics
MCP 2.0 stateless protocol; multi-roundtrip elicitation (MRTR); server discovery and self-describing requests; client ID metadata (SIMD/EMA); agent plugins and agent identity; fastMCP Prefab interactive UIs; subscriptions and tasks extension; unified HTTP/stdio transport; skills-as-resources and resources; event-driven agents and webhooks; server-side tool search and toolboxes; conformance tests and deprecation policy
| title | author | length |
|---|---|---|
| A half-day livestream about the latest in MCP | Pamela Fox, Liam Hampton | 04h 11m |
Overview of concrete outcomes and how to use them: the July 28 MCP 2.0 stateless/sessionless release removes sessions, replaces handshakes with server… | ||
| Join us for MCP Live! Sept 9th! | Pamela Fox | 01m |
5-hour free live stream on September 9 at 9am PST on the Microsoft Developer and VS Code YouTube channels announcing a new MCP release that introduces a… | ||
| State of MCP | Caitie McCaffrey | 28m |
MCP 2.0 (2026-07-28) makes the protocol stateless and sessionless, removing initialize-based handshakes and sessions and replacing them with server discovery… | ||
| MCP: Server, Client & Protocol | Sam Morrow | 13m |
GitHub MCP server gets the newest MCP spec live 3 weeks before spec launch and rolls it out with almost no friction, raising new-protocol traffic from 3% to… | ||
| Building MCP servers with VS Code — Level up your MCP | Harald Kirschner | 28m |
Builds an agentic achievement tracker live in VS Code that actually works end to end: a local STIO server debuggable with breakpoints that exposes tools to… | ||
| Evolution of MCP auth | Den Delimarsky | 20m |
Chronicles how MCP moves from an embedded OAuth profile to delegating tokens to separate authorization servers, standardizing protected resource metadata so… | ||
| MCP auth: Stop registering, Start linking | Sam Bellen | 17m |
Shows that Dynamic Client Registration creates runaway client-id sprawl while Client ID Metadata Documents turn the client_id into an HTTPS URL the server… | ||
| When chatbots grow buttons: Building MCP apps | Jeremiah Lowin | 15m |
FastMCP plus a new Python library called Prefab lets servers render full interactive UIs inside chat by returning a JSON-backed component instead of raw data… | ||
| Event-driven agents, powered by MCP | Clare Liguori | 16m |
MCP Triggers & Events extension adds pull, push, web hook delivery so agents can receive external events rather than only polling tools; the pull mode uses… | ||
| A unified MCP layer with Toolboxes | Viswajeet Balaji | 19m |
Toolboxes in Microsoft Foundry creates a single MCP endpoint that composes OpenAPI services, A2A agents and existing MCP servers so teams reuse one unified… | ||
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