{
  "id": 18908,
  "url": "https://www.infoq.com/news/2026/08/mcp-stateless-gateway",
  "title": "MCP Goes Stateless, and Developers Ask Whether That Just Makes It an API Again",
  "summary": "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",
  "authors": "Steef-Jan Wiggers",
  "category": "news",
  "topics": "agents-autonomy",
  "orgs": null,
  "regions": null,
  "published_at": "2026-08-12T09:48:00.000Z",
  "fetched_at": "2026-08-13T05:10:37.786Z",
  "source_slug": "x-infoq-ai-ml",
  "source_name": "InfoQ AI/ML",
  "source_homepage": "https://www.infoq.com/ai-ml-data-eng/",
  "ethics_ai_record_url": "https://ethics.ai/record/18908",
  "original_url": "https://www.infoq.com/news/2026/08/mcp-stateless-gateway",
  "evidence_status": "source-only",
  "attribution": "via ethics.ai"
}