MCP Tasks (async)/ Why the heck aren't any agents supporting MCP tasks/async?
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MCP Tasks (async)/ Why the heck aren't any agents supporting MCP tasks/async?
- Day
- Day 3 — Session Day 2
- Time
- 2:50pm-3:10pm
- Room
- Track 8
- Track
- Context Engineering
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About this session
The November 2025 MCP spec release introduced tasks, a way to make tool calls in an async manner. But more than 5 months later (an eternity in AI-time) there are still NO clients that support it - not Claude, not Codex, not even goose! I believe there are two reasons: Designing the client experience when there are potentially 1000s of background tasks running on their own schedule and engaging humans at unpredictable times is a challenge. And tasks place new infrastructure requirements on such a client. This talk will share the findings from having built against the tasks protocol and will suggest solutions these problems. Yup, we'll have a working client!
Topics
AI ResearchMy talk is weird and doesn't fit anywhere listed!!
