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modelcontextprotocol reviews and mentions

• MCP Sampling Is Deprecated. But Was Delegating to the Client Ever a Bad Idea?
  1 project | dev.to | 12 Oct 2026

  In the MCP specification released in July 2026, sampling was marked as deprecated. The official recommendation is for new implementations to integrate directly with LLM provider APIs instead. The decision is documented in SEP-2577: Deprecate Roots, Sampling, and Logging.

• SuperAGI — Deep Dive
  3 projects | dev.to | 30 Sep 2026

  Protocol Adoption: Support for emerging standards like the Model Context Protocol (MCP) GitHub will become crucial for interoperability with other AI tools.

• Pi.dev: You Said No MCP
  16 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 30 Sep 2026

  There is a MCP SEP that outlines multiple ways: https://github.com/modelcontextprotocol/modelcontextprotocol...

  While we are waiting on that to become stabilized, we implemented a inspired/co-evolved way to do that in our tool[0], where you mark individual fields in the request/response schema as being file payloads, so that file exchange can be properly orchestrated by the harness and doesn't pollute the context. We just do inline base64 uploads of the required payloads, which in practice we've seen to work quite will until ~100MB files (which is otherwise also the size limit we usually recommend for file processed).

  [0]: https://erato.chat/docs/features/mcp_servers#file-support

• MCP Tool Poisoning: A Name Allowlist Is Not Enough
  3 projects | dev.to | 22 Sep 2026

  SEP-3140, Signed Capability Declarations and Trustworthy Trust Labels, is open and was touched again this week. Signing a capability declaration is the right direction, and it is worth reading, but note that a signature answers "did the server really say this" and not "is this what the server said last time." Those are different questions, and the second one is what Deadbugz exploits. A signed poisoned declaration verifies fine.

• OpenMCP – An open, code-first fork of the Model Context Protocol
  3 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 22 Sep 2026
• What are the standard tools exposed by an MCP memory server?
  2 projects | dev.to | 21 Sep 2026

  You can check the rest yourself in under a minute. The TypeScript schema is the protocol's source of truth. Search it for memory and you find it once, in the comment on a boolean hint, where a memory tool is the example of a closed world:

• MCP Prompt Injection Before the First Tool Call
  2 projects | dev.to | 11 Sep 2026

  That was filed against the spec repo in August as MCP-2026-015, and it is still open.

• Agentic Commerce: A Practical 2026 Guide
  1 project | dev.to | 11 Sep 2026

  Model Context Protocol

• Your Agent Wrote the Audit Log You Are Judging It By
  2 projects | dev.to | 9 Sep 2026

  That is the shape MCP SEP-3004 proposes, and I deliberately built only the shape. SEP-3004 specifies a canonical byte form plus an append-only hash chain plus registered extensions for admission control, runtime security, and caller governance, plus an attestation manifest for the part that is not wire-observable. The demo has the first two.

• MCP Agent Identity: One Spec Shipped, Three Still Open
  2 projects | dev.to | 8 Sep 2026

  SEP-1932 would apply DPoP (RFC 9449) to bind an access token to a key pair the client controls, so a token that leaks cannot be replayed by whoever picked it up. That is the difference between a bearer token and a sender-constrained one, and it is the single change that would make a stolen MCP token much less useful.

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