The Future of MCP — David Soria Parra, Anthropic

AI Engineer · Beginner ·🤖 AI Agents & Automation ·1mo ago

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In this Keynote, I will lay out what I believe will be true for agents in 2026 and how MCP plays a part in this. Let's take a look what connectivity for agents might look like. Speaker info: - https://x.com/dsp_ - https://www.linkedin.com/in/david-soria-parra-4a78b3a/ - https://github.com/dsp Timestamps 0:00 Introduction and the vision for MCP applications 1:34 Looking back at the evolution of the MCP ecosystem over the last 18 months 2:30 Ecosystem growth and adoption milestones 3:46 Moving from exploration in 2025 to production in 2026 5:07 The 2026 connectivity stack: Skills, MCP, and CLI/Computer use 7:47 Improving client harnesses: Progressive Discovery 9:39 Programmatic tool calling and agent orchestration 12:00 Best practices for designing agents and server authors 13:42 Future roadmap for the MCP protocol and core improvements 15:23 Strategic integrations and enterprise features 16:32 Upcoming extension mechanisms and skills over MCP 17:15 Conclusion and call for community feedback

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Chapters (12)

Introduction and the vision for MCP applications

1:34 Looking back at the evolution of the MCP ecosystem over the last 18 months

2:30 Ecosystem growth and adoption milestones

3:46 Moving from exploration in 2025 to production in 2026

5:07 The 2026 connectivity stack: Skills, MCP, and CLI/Computer use

7:47 Improving client harnesses: Progressive Discovery

9:39 Programmatic tool calling and agent orchestration

12:00 Best practices for designing agents and server authors

13:42 Future roadmap for the MCP protocol and core improvements

15:23 Strategic integrations and enterprise features

16:32 Upcoming extension mechanisms and skills over MCP

17:15 Conclusion and call for community feedback

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