--- schema: 1 type: video title: 'The Future of MCP — David Soria Parra, Anthropic' description: >- In this Keynote, I will lay out what I believe will be true for agents in 2026 and how MCP plays a part in this. Let's take a look what connectivity for agents might look like. Speaker info: - https://x.com/dsp_ - https://www.linkedin.com/in/david-soria-parra-4a78b3a/ - https://github.com/dsp Timestamps 0:00 Introduction and the vision for MCP applications 1:34 Looking back at the evolution of the MCP ecosystem over the last 18 months 2:30 Ecosystem growth and adoption milestones 3:46 Moving from exploration in 2025 to production in 2026 5:07 The 2026 connectivity stack: Skills, MCP, and CLI/Computer use 7:47 Improving client harnesses: Progressive Discovery 9:39 Programmatic tool calling and agent orchestration 12:00 Best practices for designing agents and server authors 13:42 Future roadmap for the MCP protocol and core improvements 15:23 Strategic integrations and enterprise features 16:32 Upcoming extension mechanisms and skills over MCP 17:15 Conclusion and call for community feedback --- Watch along with the corrected transcript, summary, timestamps and resources on this talk's official AIE page: https://ai.engineer/talks/v3Fr2JR47KA-future-of-mcp Join our upcoming AI Engineer conferences (see https://ai.engineer landing page): - AIEi Shanghai, November 5–6 — the first for meeting top Chinese labs and engineers - AIE CODE in SF, November 10–12 — the top AI Coding conference returns - AIEi Sydney, December 7–8 — the first AIEi run alongside NeurIPS 2026 in Sydney --- canonical: 'https://liquidgold.cc/watch/v3Fr2JR47KA' markdown: 'https://liquidgold.cc/watch/v3Fr2JR47KA.md' llms: 'https://liquidgold.cc/watch/v3Fr2JR47KA/llms.txt' parent: 'https://liquidgold.cc/channel/aidotengineer.md' channel: aidotengineer updated: '2026-10-24T15:25:18.813Z' language: null children: [] videoId: v3Fr2JR47KA durationSeconds: 1126 publishedAt: '2026-04-19T15:00:06.000Z' searchChunks: - ordinal: 0 text: null startSeconds: 25 endSeconds: 103 watch: 'https://liquidgold.cc/watch/v3Fr2JR47KA?t=25' heldReason: rights - ordinal: 1 text: null startSeconds: 25 endSeconds: 103 watch: 'https://liquidgold.cc/watch/v3Fr2JR47KA?t=25' heldReason: rights - ordinal: 2 text: null startSeconds: 114 endSeconds: 158 watch: 'https://liquidgold.cc/watch/v3Fr2JR47KA?t=114' heldReason: rights - ordinal: 3 text: null startSeconds: 158 endSeconds: 169 watch: 'https://liquidgold.cc/watch/v3Fr2JR47KA?t=158' heldReason: rights - ordinal: 4 text: null startSeconds: 169 endSeconds: 234 watch: 'https://liquidgold.cc/watch/v3Fr2JR47KA?t=169' heldReason: rights - ordinal: 5 text: null startSeconds: 234 endSeconds: 245 watch: 'https://liquidgold.cc/watch/v3Fr2JR47KA?t=234' heldReason: rights - ordinal: 6 text: null startSeconds: 245 endSeconds: 312 watch: 'https://liquidgold.cc/watch/v3Fr2JR47KA?t=245' heldReason: rights - ordinal: 7 text: null startSeconds: 323 endSeconds: 469 watch: 'https://liquidgold.cc/watch/v3Fr2JR47KA?t=323' heldReason: rights - ordinal: 8 text: null startSeconds: 480 endSeconds: 579 watch: 'https://liquidgold.cc/watch/v3Fr2JR47KA?t=480' heldReason: rights - ordinal: 9 text: null startSeconds: 480 endSeconds: 579 watch: 'https://liquidgold.cc/watch/v3Fr2JR47KA?t=480' heldReason: rights - ordinal: 10 text: null startSeconds: 590 endSeconds: 723 watch: 'https://liquidgold.cc/watch/v3Fr2JR47KA?t=590' heldReason: rights - ordinal: 11 text: null startSeconds: 590 endSeconds: 723 watch: 'https://liquidgold.cc/watch/v3Fr2JR47KA?t=590' heldReason: rights - ordinal: 12 text: null startSeconds: 734 endSeconds: 825 watch: 'https://liquidgold.cc/watch/v3Fr2JR47KA?t=734' heldReason: rights - ordinal: 13 text: null startSeconds: 734 endSeconds: 825 watch: 'https://liquidgold.cc/watch/v3Fr2JR47KA?t=734' heldReason: rights - ordinal: 14 text: null startSeconds: 734 endSeconds: 825 watch: 'https://liquidgold.cc/watch/v3Fr2JR47KA?t=734' heldReason: rights - ordinal: 15 text: null startSeconds: 837 endSeconds: 923 watch: 'https://liquidgold.cc/watch/v3Fr2JR47KA?t=837' heldReason: rights - ordinal: 16 text: null startSeconds: 837 endSeconds: 923 watch: 'https://liquidgold.cc/watch/v3Fr2JR47KA?t=837' heldReason: rights - ordinal: 17 text: null startSeconds: 837 endSeconds: 923 watch: 'https://liquidgold.cc/watch/v3Fr2JR47KA?t=837' heldReason: rights - ordinal: 18 text: null startSeconds: 933 endSeconds: 992 watch: 'https://liquidgold.cc/watch/v3Fr2JR47KA?t=933' heldReason: rights - ordinal: 19 text: null startSeconds: 933 endSeconds: 992 watch: 'https://liquidgold.cc/watch/v3Fr2JR47KA?t=933' heldReason: rights - ordinal: 20 text: null startSeconds: 992 endSeconds: 1003 watch: 'https://liquidgold.cc/watch/v3Fr2JR47KA?t=992' heldReason: rights - ordinal: 21 text: null startSeconds: 1047 endSeconds: 1126 watch: 'https://liquidgold.cc/watch/v3Fr2JR47KA?t=1047' heldReason: rights --- # The Future of MCP — David Soria Parra, Anthropic In this Keynote, I will lay out what I believe will be true for agents in 2026 and how MCP plays a part in this. Let's take a look what connectivity for agents might look like. Speaker info: - https://x.com/dsp\_ - https://www.linkedin.com/in/david-soria-parra-4a78b3a/ - https://github.com/dsp Timestamps 0:00 Introduction and the vision for MCP applications 1:34 Looking back at the evolution of the MCP ecosystem over the last 18 months 2:30 Ecosystem growth and adoption milestones 3:46 Moving from exploration in 2025 to production in 2026 5:07 The 2026 connectivity stack: Skills, MCP, and CLI/Computer use 7:47 Improving client harnesses: Progressive Discovery 9:39 Programmatic tool calling and agent orchestration 12:00 Best practices for designing agents and server authors 13:42 Future roadmap for the MCP protocol and core improvements 15:23 Strategic integrations and enterprise features 16:32 Upcoming extension mechanisms and skills over MCP 17:15 Conclusion and call for community feedback --- Watch along with the corrected transcript, summary, timestamps and resources on this talk's official AIE page: https://ai.engineer/talks/v3Fr2JR47KA-future-of-mcp Join our upcoming AI Engineer conferences (see https://ai.engineer landing page): - AIEi Shanghai, November 5–6 — the first for meeting top Chinese labs and engineers - AIE CODE in SF, November 10–12 — the top AI Coding conference returns - AIEi Sydney, December 7–8 — the first AIEi run alongside NeurIPS 2026 in Sydney --- Canonical: https://liquidgold.cc/watch/v3Fr2JR47KA · Channel: [AI Engineer](https://liquidgold.cc/channel/aidotengineer.md) > Search chunk text is held until public-source provenance is verified. ## Document chunks > Missing: no stored document chunks are available.