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Less than 20% of remote MCP servers fully comply with the MCP Specification. MCP adoption took off quickly, but full compliance didn't follow at the same pace. Today, partial implementations are common across both clients and servers, and the reasons go beyond just a fast-moving spec. In this session, we'll walk you through: -The first version of the MCP Specification and what it was designed for -How MCP evolved to keep up with the quickly evolving AI ecosystem -How clients and servers deviate from the spec and why developers choose not to comply -What we can do to shrink the gap between design and implementation This isn't a story about bad developers or tight deadlines. It's about how bending the rules has become part of how agents get built.
Sterling is a founding engineer at Arcade.dev, focused on backend and infrastructure. Before Arcade, he was the second engineer at Featureform, a feature store platform acquired by Redis.
