MCP Dev Summit North America

MCP made agents portable. But it also made them fragile—every tool call lives or dies by its network connection, and long-running work has been a liability we've all been working around in different (incompatible) ways.

SEP 1686 introduces native task orchestration to the protocol. This talk covers what's changing, why it matters, and what it unlocks for anyone building serious MCP infrastructure.

I'll walk through the design decisions, demonstrate the new primitives in FastMCP, and share what we've learned from helping teams scale MCP Tasks.

If you've ever wished MCP would just let you run real workloads without holding your breath, this one's for you.