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Agentic AI Foundation's September 28 MCP release finalizes stateless servers and bars removing deprecated features before July 2027. Teams moving servers off sessions now have a dated floor to plan migrations against.
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Block joined the x402 Foundation on Sept. 24 and is adding Bitcoin Lightning to the agent-payment protocol Coinbase built for stablecoins. The move puts a second settlement asset, and a second large payments company, into a standard its creator handed to the Linux Foundation this year.
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Prakash Rao and Marco Gonzalez say x402 v2 and MCP 2026-07-28 expose a tool call's price to the gateway but leave undefined who may approve the spend. Their demo treats the agent as hostile, so the budget check must sit out of its reach.
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Identity Digital has moved its agent identity work into a separate company called Known Systems AI. The pitch is a persistent credential that says which firm answers for an agent wherever it goes.
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Version 2.1.277 reads a shared AGENTS.md when no CLAUDE.md is in scope. The documented exceptions cover first sessions, telemetry-disabled runs, Bedrock, Vertex and Foundry, and the hooks governance tooling watches.
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Anthropic shipped the AGENTS.md fallback in Claude Code 2.1.277 as a flag-gated built-in mod. Two machines on the same pinned version can load different project instructions. The same week's digest also logs a reverted deny-rule fix.
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A 300-trial study swapped Goose, OpenCode and OpenHands-SDK under Qwen 3.6 Plus and MiniMax M2.5, and reports that the scaffold sets tokens per solved task and the failure mode while the score barely moves.
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Google's server for Google Analytics is a read-only Python package you run locally through pipx, and it has been on GitHub since mid-2025. Anthropic only handed the protocol to the Linux Foundation that December.
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Anthropic, OpenAI and Google have had working groups meeting since July on a safety standards body they would run themselves, after the White House route stalled. The only cost anyone has published is a 30-day review.
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Lock-in migrated from the model to the runtime that holds your tool grants, approval rules and learned state. Six specifications aim to make that runtime's contents portable, and half of them are one person's drafts.
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Google's Agent2Agent has been accepted as a growth-stage project at the Linux Foundation's Agentic AI Foundation, which already holds MCP, goose and AGENTS.md. The protocol question is now a governance non-event.
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Six vendors agreed on where a plugin's components live. The two specifications that define what those components do sit outside the project, and outside its steering committee.
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