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MCP Lacks a Trigger Protocol, Forcing Notion to Build Custom Trigger Infrastructure
“MCP is a really great way to gain access to tools. Works really well. But you just looked at the trigger UI, for example, there's no trigger protocol. And so those are things we had to build ourselves.”
Simon Last Apr 15, 2026 ▶ 47:30 Notion’s Sarah Sachs & Simon Last on Custom Agents, Evals, and the Future of Work
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Anthropic and OpenAI are collaborating to build a unified AI UI standard
“And now one thing we just announced three weeks ago on the MCP blog is that we're actually working with all, all two of them together to build like a common standard.”
David Soria Parra Dec 28, 2025 ▶ 53:04 One Year of MCP — with David Soria Parria and AAIF leads from OpenAI, Goose, Linux Foundation
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Block's Goose was the first open-source agent to integrate MCP
“Goose was the first open source agent interface or agent that reached out to us and worked with us to integrate MCP. And I think Rad is actually like technically the first non-anthropic contributor to MCP ever on like day two or something like that, like very,…”
David Soria Parra Dec 28, 2025 ▶ 1:12:42 One Year of MCP — with David Soria Parria and AAIF leads from OpenAI, Goose, Linux Foundation
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Ganatra: MCP Lacks Client Post-Processing for Long Context Responses
“MCP let's just say you have a tool that has really long context, a really long sort of response. Currently, if you use MCP for those kinds of tools, it ends up sort of messing up, right? Because let's say I'm trying to fetch like a hundred emails on Gmail and …”
Soham Ganatra Aug 4, 2025 ▶ 4:04 ⚡️Composio: 10,000+ tools that evolve for Agents — Karan Vaidya and Soham Ganatra
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Ganatra: Server-Controlled Schemas in MCP Complicate Client-Side Customization
“Some of the other things that we have observed is like, hey, maybe I want to sort of change the tool descriptions, but like in MCP, the tool descriptions are controlled by the server itself. And so essentially for me as a developer who's sort of using an MCP, …”
Soham Ganatra Aug 4, 2025 ▶ 4:37 ⚡️Composio: 10,000+ tools that evolve for Agents — Karan Vaidya and Soham Ganatra
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Eifrem: Initial Model Context Protocol release includes in-memory graph database
“Actually the initial MCP release includes like a tiny little in memory graph database.”
Emil Eifrem Apr 18, 2026 ▶ 24:00 ⚡️ How to turn Documents into Knowledge: Graphs in Modern AI — Emil Eifrem, CEO Neo4J
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Cursor launches Model Context Protocol support for Cloud Agents
“We also launched MCPs along with along with this Cloud Agent launch, launch support for Cloud Agent MCPs.”
Sam Whitmore Mar 6, 2026 ▶ 17:12 Cursor's Third Era: Cloud Agents — ft. Sam Whitmore, Jonas Nelle, Cursor
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Anthropic added long-running tasks to MCP for deep research and communication
“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, y…”
David Soria Parra Dec 28, 2025 ▶ 2:57 One Year of MCP — with David Soria Parria and AAIF leads from OpenAI, Goose, Linux Foundation
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MCP decoupled authentication from resource servers to support enterprise identity providers
“In the first iteration of our authentication respect, we combined them together into the MCP server... And if you combine these into the same server, you just can't do this anymore. And so all we needed to do is like, okay, we are a resource server. The MCP se…”
David Soria Parra Dec 28, 2025 ▶ 9:13 One Year of MCP — with David Soria Parria and AAIF leads from OpenAI, Goose, Linux Foundation
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Bloomberg is heading a financial services interest group for MCP standardization
“And so now that's when we, like, started, like, creating this financial services interest group that Bloomberg is heading up to, like, figure out, like, what are some of the things that you, like, a client must do if it wants to speak to our financial services…”
David Soria Parra Dec 28, 2025 ▶ 38:12 One Year of MCP — with David Soria Parria and AAIF leads from OpenAI, Goose, Linux Foundation
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OpenAI's Nick Cooper sits on Anthropic's MCP steering committee
“We actually have a member of our team, Nick Cooper, who is sitting on kind of like that, that steering committee for MCP as well.”
Sherwin Wu Oct 7, 2025 ▶ 6:45 DevDay 2025: Apps SDK, Agent Kit, MCP, Codex and why Prompting is More Important than Ever
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Cherny: Claude Code operates as both an MCP client and an MCP server
“Because Cloud Code is an MCP client and an MCP server.”
Boris Cherny May 7, 2025 ▶ 20:11 Claude Code: Anthropic's CLI Agent
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Augment Code supports MCP alongside native GitHub, Linear, and Notion integrations
“Within augment, we have we have both MCP support for complete extensibility of tools, but we, we've also built in a few first party integrations and serve them as tools to the agent. So we have GitHub linear notion that, that we use internally, and then we hav…”
Guy Gur-Ari Apr 2, 2025 ▶ 18:17 The #1 SWE-Bench Verified Agent
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