mcp-2026-07-28

mcp-2026-07-28 is a skill for Claude Code from sigistry/marketplace. It costs 128 tokens per session (1,222 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A reference guide to the 2026-07-28 Model Context Protocol (MCP) specification, which defines how AI applications connect to external tools and data. It explains transport, stateless requests, lifecycle, capabilities, and versioned extensions.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it when building or upgrading an MCP server, choosing between local and remote transport, handling protocol versions, or adding features such as interactive apps and long-running tasks.
Why use it?
It helps developers understand the newer MCP rules and avoid building servers around removed or outdated connection patterns.

Skill for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: shipped in a Claude Code plugin.

Part of the mcp-server-smith plugin — 4 skills, 3 commands, 2 agents shipped together

Good fit Use it when building or upgrading an MCP server, choosing between local and remote transport, handling protocol versions, or adding features such as interactive apps and long-running tasks.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/sigistry/marketplace/mcp-2026-07-28
Install

Getting it into your agent

One page per mod, every tool's command on it. A separate URL per tool would split the same page into five that compete with each other.

Any agent
npx skills add sigistry/marketplace --skill mcp-2026-07-28
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/sigistry/marketplace

Made for: Claude Code.

Or install mcp-server-smith, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 4 skills, 3 commands, 2 agents.

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Per session 128 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 1,222 The whole file, excluding the scripts and references it only reads on demand.
Security scan A 0 findings. A grade says what 26 rules found in the file — not that it is safe.
Origin original No closer match found in the catalogue.
Token cost

What it costs to keep this loaded

Counted locally with the o200k_base tokenizer, which is exact for GPT models; Claude uses its own tokenizer and its counts differ. Treat this as one consistent yardstick across the catalogue rather than a bill. Prices are per million input tokens.

ModelPer sessionOnce invoked
Fable 5.1 $0.00128 $0.01222
Opus 5.5 $0.00051 $0.00489
Sonnet 5.5 $0.00026 $0.00244
Haiku 4.5 $0.00013 $0.00122

Measured 1mo ago against content hash 5e26f88a456d, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-10-07, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

mcp-2026-07-28 scanned grade A with 0 findings against 26 rules in 11 categories — prompt injection, anti-refusal, data exfiltration, privilege escalation, supply chain, agent snooping, system-prompt leakage, SSRF and excessive agency — measured 1mo ago.

A static scan of the body, not an audit. Every finding is printed with the line that produced it so you can judge whether it matters here. A mod is markdown that instructs an agent; that is exactly why what it instructs is worth reading.

Nothing flagged

None of the 26 patterns this scan looks for appear in this file: no shell pipes, no recursive deletes, no credential paths, no hidden text, no instruction-override or anti-refusal phrasing, no agent-config snooping. That is not a guarantee, it is the absence of the things that are checkable.

plugins/mcp-server-smith/skills/mcp-2026-07-28/SKILL.md · 49 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 49 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

MCP 2026-07-28 Spec

Purpose

The MCP 2026-07-28 specification is the largest revision since the protocol launched. It moves MCP from a bidirectional, stateful protocol toward a stateless request/response core, so servers deploy on serverless and edge infrastructure and scale horizontally; it formalizes versioned extensions (MCP Apps for interactive UI, Tasks for long-running work) so capabilities can be added without touching the core; and it aligns authorization with production OAuth 2.1 / OIDC (covered in the mcp-authorization skill). This skill is the reference for the core, transport, and lifecycle so a server is shaped correctly, not merely functional.

What changed, at a glance

Area Before 2026-07-28
Transport HTTP+SSE dual endpoint (GET /sse + POST /messages) Streamable HTTP, single endpoint; HTTP+SSE removed
Core model Stateful, long-lived bidirectional session Stateless request/response core; each request self-contained
Deployment Sticky, single-instance Serverless / edge / multi-replica behind a load balancer
Extensions Ad-hoc Versioned extensions framework (MCP Apps, Tasks)
Auth Custom / bearer, loosely specified OAuth 2.1 + OIDC aligned (see mcp-authorization)

The stateless core

The single most important shape change: do not require per-connection server memory to serve a request. A request carries what it needs; any replica can answer it. Concretely:

  • No in-process session map that a second instance would not share. If you must correlate requests, key off an external store (Redis, a DB) by a stable id, not a module-level Map.
  • Long-running work is not a sticky session held open, it is the Tasks extension: start returns a task id, the client polls/subscribes, any replica can report status. See references/versioned-extensions.md.
  • stdio servers are inherently single-process and per-user; the stateless rule is about remote (HTTP) servers that scale out.

Read the full file on GitHub · 49 lines

Files

What ships with it

2 files beside SKILL.md in the same directory: the scripts, references and assets a skill reads on demand. Not counted in the per-session cost; read them before you install if any of them is executable.

Changes

What this file has done since we first saw it

Hashed on every crawl. A supply-chain change to an agent config is a question of when, not whether, so the history is kept rather than the latest state alone.

  1. 1mo ago First seen · 49 lines · 128 tokens per session scan A 5e26f88a456d

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mcp-2026-07-28 is a skill published in the GitHub repository sigistry/marketplace (3 stars, last pushed 4d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 128 tokens to every session and 1,222 once invoked, about $0.0005 per session on Opus 5.5. A static security scan graded it A with 0 findings. No closer match exists in the catalogue, so it is treated as the original; first seen 2026-09-03.

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