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MCP's New Roadmap Puts Agent Identity Ahead of Tool-Calling

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What you need to know Five priority areas, published 22 August 2026. Agentic messaging primitives; HTTP-native transport unification and hardening; agent identity and enterprise-ready security; improved primitives for tool calling and result handling; and improved SDK developer experience. The security framing has shifted. The roadmap describes the problem as moving from "which user approved this server?" to "which workload or sub-agent is calling, for whom, and with what delegated authority?" Four named technologies carry that work: DPoP, the ID-JAG grant supporting Enterprise-Managed Authorization, Workload Identity Federation, and standard token exchange — positioned explicitly against long-lived API keys. Tasks is being promoted. The Tasks extension, SEP-2663, is targeted for maturing…


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