Name: Goose as a Proving Ground for New MCP Features, and How To Use Them - Alex Hancock, Block
Start: 2026-04-03T11:30:00-0400
End: 2026-04-03T11:55:00-0400

April 2-3, 2026
New York, NY
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Goose as a Proving Ground for New MCP Features, and How To Use Them - Alex Hancock, Block

Friday April 3, 2026 11:30am - 11:55am EDT

Broadway Ballroom North (6th Floor)

Goose serves as a real-world proving ground for new MCP capabilities before they're widely adopted. In this talk, you'll learn how to use advanced and early versions of MCP features that go beyond basic tool calling—with practical examples from production.

You'll see:

* Code mode MCP: handling massive tool catalogs without overwhelming context windows
* MCP Apps: rich user experiences for MCP servers that go beyond chat
* How ACP (Agent Client Protocol) can complement and interoperate with an MCP-aware agent, and how we use it in goose

The audience will learn from our experience building goose how they can use and contribute to emerging MCP features.

Speakers

Alex Hancock

Software Engineer, Block

Alex is a core maintainer of goose, and maintainer of the Rust SDK for the Model Context Protocol. Alongside teammates at Block he built and contributed goose as a founding project of the Agentic AI Foundation. He lives in Connecticut in the US with his wonderful family.

Friday April 3, 2026 11:30am - 11:55am EDT
Broadway Ballroom North (6th Floor)

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Audience Experience Level Intermediate

MCP Dev Summit North America

Alex Hancock

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