MCP Goes Stateless, and Developers Ask Whether That Just Makes It an API Again
The MCP 2026-07-28 specification removes the initialize handshake and session header, and adds required method and tool-name headers so gateways can route agent traffic without parsing JSON. Reaction split between developers calling it a rediscovery of REST and those arguing the standard itself was always the point. By Steef-Jan Wiggers
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Published: 12 August 2026
Source: InfoQ AI/ML
Category: News
Topics: Agents & autonomy
Retrieved: 13 August 2026
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