MCP's Agents group is now an interest group. Tasks and Events has its own working group.
By Lior AharonovFounder, 7IT Solutions ·
On 20 October 2026 the MCP specification repository merged PR 3440. It renames the Triggers and Events working group to Tasks and Events, moves the Tasks scope into it, and converts the Agents working group to an interest group. The Agents charter says the group will recommend how to evolve the protocol, create extensions or document how existing primitives should be used.
If you build agent-backed servers, two groups now split the work. One stabilizes Tasks and owns the protocol surface. The other collects use cases and recommends.
Read the two charters before you design a long-running agent tool, and follow the Tasks and Events group for the path of Tasks into the core protocol.
Interest groups talk. Working groups ship. Know which one your feature depends on.
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