{
 "id": "mcp-core",
 "name": "Model Context Protocol (MCP), core specification",
 "org": "Linux Foundation",
 "kind": "specification",
 "tier": "context",
 "status": "Specification version 2026-07-28 (the latest release is 2026-07-28; the specification directory holds 2025-03-26, 2025-06-18, 2025-11-25, 2026-07-28 and a draft; no later release, read 2026-10-13); the blog post of 2025-12-09 says \"Anthropic is donating MCP to the Agentic AI Foundation\".",
 "status_as_of": "2026-10-13",
 "relevance": "The specification describes MCP as \"an open protocol that enables seamless integration between LLM applications and external data sources and tools\"; discovery is in mcp-server-card and lf-ai-catalog.",
 "sources": [
  {
   "url": "https://modelcontextprotocol.io/specification/latest",
   "archived": "https://web.archive.org/web/20261015052545/https://modelcontextprotocol.io/specification/latest",
   "read": "2026-10-03",
   "class": "normative"
  },
  {
   "url": "https://blog.modelcontextprotocol.io/posts/2025-12-09-mcp-joins-agentic-ai-foundation/",
   "archived": "https://web.archive.org/web/20261005180937/https://blog.modelcontextprotocol.io/posts/2025-12-09-mcp-joins-agentic-ai-foundation/",
   "read": "2026-10-03",
   "class": "decision"
  }
 ],
 "overlaps": [
  "mcp-server-card",
  "lf-ai-catalog",
  "a2a-core"
 ],
 "seams": [
  "S1"
 ],
 "verified": "2026-10-13",
 "evidence": {
  "read": "On 2026-10-13: the list of releases and the specification directory of the repository; the blog post, the governance page and the versioning page were not re-read.",
  "not_read": "Full text of each specification chapter, the Specification Enhancement Proposal (SEP) process pages, licence texts beyond README and GOVERNANCE.md.",
  "not_found": "Not found on the governance and specification pages: foundation, AAIF, Linux."
 },
 "url": "https://frmoretto.github.io/agentic-standards-map/entries/mcp-core.html",
 "source_url": "https://github.com/frmoretto/agentic-standards-map/blob/a1ae242918902e0768e0e6a79bd2bffc4ac5cfa3/entries/mcp-core.yaml",
 "licence": "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/"
}