Standards
Model Context Protocol (MCP)
Transport/context standard; explicit non-standardizer of memory.
Specification
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What it is
Transport/context standard; explicit non-standardizer of memory.
At a glance
- Business model
- Specification
- License
- NOASSERTION
- Governing body
- Agentic AI Foundation (Linux Foundation directed fund; donated by Anthropic Dec 2025; co-founded by Anthropic/Block/OpenAI)
- Maturity
- stable-ish — spec revision 2026-07-28 (5th), 41 Final SEPs, registry still preview
- What it says about memory
- NONE normative — official reference memory server is a basic local JSONL graph, no memory SEP exists. 'Memory' is the largest MCP server category (~975-1000 tracked) but those are vendor servers, not a standard.
- Artifacts
- modelcontextprotocol.io/specification/2026-07-28; schema.ts; Registry server.json schema
GitHub activity
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“Specification and documentation for the Model Context Protocol” (repository description)
- Stars
- 9,655
- Change since last reading
- +3
- Forks
- 1,906
- Open issues
- 118
- Last commit
- Nov 10, 2026 (0 days ago)
- License (GitHub)
- NOASSERTION
Links and sources
- Official sitemodelcontextprotocol.io
- GitHub repositorygithub.com/modelcontextprotocol/modelcontextprotocol