--- title: "MCP maintainers publish the new roadmap | Agent MCP Directory" description: "MCP maintainers publish the new roadmap. The roadmap names five priority areas: agentic messaging primitives, Streamable HTTP for local servers." canonical: https://agentmcpdirectory.com/news/2026-08-22-mcp-maintainers-publish-the-new-roadmap site: "Agent MCP Directory" last_updated: 2026-11-04 date: 2026-08-22 section: "News" --- # MCP maintainers publish the new roadmap | Agent MCP Directory > MCP maintainers publish the new roadmap. The roadmap names five priority areas: agentic messaging primitives, Streamable HTTP for local servers. Source: https://agentmcpdirectory.com/news/2026-08-22-mcp-maintainers-publish-the-new-roadmap Site: Agent MCP Directory Last reviewed: 2026-11-04 # MCP maintainers publish the new roadmap The roadmap names five priority areas: agentic messaging primitives, Streamable HTTP for local servers, agent identity and enterprise security (DPoP, workload identity), improved primitives including progressive tool discovery, and SDK developer experience. Server cards continue in a Working Group. Reported 22 August 2026 by blog.modelcontextprotocol.io, read 4 November 2026. ## What it changes in the data held here Of 817 reachable endpoints in the directory, 812 answered over Streamable HTTP and 5 over the legacy SSE transport. The 2026-07-28 specification classes SSE as deprecated, so the second figure is the count of servers that will need to move. The connector log shows which protocol revisions the directory's reachable servers answered with: 189 on 2025-11-25, 40 on 2025-06-18, 16 on 2026-07-28, 11 on 2025-03-26, 9 on 2024-11-05. Servers on 2025-11-25 still use the initialize handshake that 2026-07-28 removes. Source: [blog.modelcontextprotocol.io](https://blog.modelcontextprotocol.io/posts/mcp-roadmap/), a primary source, dated 22 August 2026 and read 4 November 2026. The opening paragraph above is the item; the figures in this section come from this directory's own run of 4 November 2026. ## Where it shows up here - [Build a remote MCP server on Cloudflare or Vercel](https://agentmcpdirectory.com/guides/build-remote-mcp-server-cloudflare-vercel/) - [MCP, the standard](https://agentmcpdirectory.com/standards/mcp/) Edition 4 November 2026 Method [How rows are verified](https://agentmcpdirectory.com/method/) Data [CSV and JSON](https://agentmcpdirectory.com/data/) Markdown [This page as markdown](https://agentmcpdirectory.com/news/2026-08-22-mcp-maintainers-publish-the-new-roadmap/index.md) ## Sources - [MCP maintainers publish the new roadmap](https://blog.modelcontextprotocol.io/posts/mcp-roadmap/), read 4 November 2026 (primary source) Last reviewed 4 November 2026