Anthropic added long-running tasks to MCP for deep research and communication
David Soria Parra · One Year of MCP — with David Soria Parria and AAIF leads from OpenAI, Goose, Linux Foundation · Dec 28, 2025 · at 2:57
David Soria Parra, co-creator of the Model Context Protocol at Anthropic, outlines the technical capabilities added to the protocol specification in late November.
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“We just launched like in our end of like November, then the recent iteration of the protocol, finally, like the next bigger improvement to the protocol, which is like long running tasks to really allow for like, you know, deep research type of task and like, you know, maybe even agent to agent communication.”
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